Ceramic industries - New Zealand - Auckland Region
The Crown Lynn story an oral history project
Date: 24 May 2005 to 23 Aug 2006 - 24 May 2005 - 23 Aug 2006
By: Donald, Mary, active 1992-2020; Monk, Valerie Ringer, active 2006; Waitakere Library and Information Services
Reference: OHColl-0833
Description: Oral history interviews of fifteen employees, from upper management, designers to the workshop floor, covering their experiences, history and products of the Crown Lynn pottery factory which was in business from 1948 to 1989. Interviewees are Bebe Cowdery, Jo Crawford, Naomi Davy, Chris Harvey, John Heap, Tom Hodgson, Larry Moore, Merle Phelps, Maureen Plummer, Heather Shingle, Mierk Smisek, Guthrie Stewart, Mary Stewart, Alan Topgham, and two joint interviews, one with Mark Cleverley and Alan Toplam, the second with Colin Leitch, Chris Harvey, John Heap and Alan Topham. Publication - Material from some of the interviews were used for Crown Lynn: a New Zealand icon. Valerie Ringer Monk; photography, Studio La Gonda. Auckland: Penguin, 2006. Abstracted by - Mary Donald Interviewer(s) - Mary Donald Interviewer(s) - Val Monk Accompanying material - Inventory of interviewees, research material accessed and material donated to the Waitakerie Library or with Val Monk's personal archives held in Crown Lynn backfile.. Arrangement: Digital abstracts arranged as OHDL-000041 to OHDL-000057 Quantity: 28 C60 cassette(s). 16 Electronic document(s) abstracts. 16 printed abstract(s). 16 interview(s). 51 Electronic document(s) (word docs). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Clark's Patent Blocks Ltd :Don't build in wood or brick without enquiring about this be...
Date: 1911 - 1914
From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]
By: Clark's Patent Blocks Ltd; Wilson & Horton (Firm)
Reference: Eph-B-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1911-02
Description: A flier advertising a damp-proof ceramic block manufactured by R O Clark. The eight photographs show: Warkworth Town Hall (architect A B Herrold), Clark's own residence ("Gentleman's suburban residence"), a four-roomed cottage, Rodney County offices, a residence under construction in Epsom (Architect A L Ferneyhough), a store in Theatre Lane Auckland (Architect A L Ferneyhough), a six-roomed residence in Hobsonville, and a cottage at Birkdale. The premises of Clark's Patent Blocks Ltd were at No 2, Second Floor, Endean's Building, Queen Street, Auckland. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 232 x 308 mm.
R O Clark, sanitary drain pipe manufacturers, Auckland
Date: 1906
From: New Zealand. Department of Labour :Photograph albums for the International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-1907
Reference: PA1-o-370-24
Description: Nine inch clay moulded buchan traps drying in R O Clark's Hobsonville brick, tile and pottery works, Auckland. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1906 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
Crum Brick, Tile, and Pottery Company works, New Lynn, Auckland
Date: 1935
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-55935-G
Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation showing the Crum Brick and Pottery works at the corner of Portage Road and Great North Road, New Lynn, Auckland. Surrounded by fields and housing. On the left of frame is the Whau Bridge over the Whau River. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches