Cornish Street
Gear Meat Company Ltd :Aerial photograph of Gear Meat Company, Petone
Date: [ca 1950s]
From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co
By: Whites Aviation Ltd
Reference: PAColl-D-0106
Description: Aerial photograph of Gear Meat Company and surrounding area looking west towards the Hutt Road and Horokiwi Quarries. Includes Petone Esplanade, Petone Railway Station, Jackson Street, Cornish Street industrial area, etc. Probably taken by Whites Aviation Ltd in 1950s. Inscriptions: Mat recto - centre - Gear Meat Co. Ltd, Petone, New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) hand coloured. Physical Description: 38 x 47.5 cm with mount
Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Company, Cornish Street, Petone
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-0198-1/2-G
Description: The Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Company's factory in Cornish Street, Petone. The mouth of the Korokoro Stream and Wellington Harbour beyond the factory. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. This building was closed in 1968 and demolished in 1970. (Information from Godber file in Pictorial Reference Service, page 17) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches
Looms at the Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Co premises in Petone
Date: ca 1906
From: New Zealand. Department of Labour :Photograph albums for the International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-1907
Reference: PA1-o-367-20
Description: A line of looms for weaving woollen cloth at the premises of the Wellington Woollen Manuafacturing Co in Cornish Street, Petone, circa 1906. The men working with the looms are probably `tuners' or loom mechanics setting up the machines for women workers to operate. Taken by unidentified photographer. Note on back of file print reads: A line of looms (for weaving cloth) - the men are probably tuners (loom mechanics) because it was usually women who ran the looms. The tuners set the looms up. The operator, in those days, had to watch for breaks, stop the machine and mend them. Nowadays this is done automatically. They also filled the shuttles. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - W'gton Woollen Coy, Petone Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print