A dominant feature on the Auckland skyline (at the top of Queen Street) for much of the second half of the nineteenth century. It was located in Symonds Street and was built in 1851 at a cost of £2000, with the first flour being sold in August 1851. The company was advertised as the Victoria Flour Mills and Steam Biscuit Factory. Its first owner was Charles Frederick Partington, who died in 1877. The mill was taken over by his son Joseph Partington; when he died in 1941, no will could be found. The mill was demolished in 1950.
Partington's Windmill (Auckland, N.Z.)
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Partington's Mill, Auckland
Date: ca 1910
Reference: 1/2-002222-F
Description: A postcard of the view looking up the lane towards Partington's Mill. Part of the Tourist Series. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative
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Fletcher R A : Postcards of New Zealand
Date: [ca 1900-1910]
By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945; Muir & Moodie (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-4534
Description: Postcard of Partington's Mill with Eady's Piano Van in front of it and the junction of Queen and Customs Street with Thames Hotel and trams taken by Frederick Radcliffe; statue of Logan Campbell in Cornwall Park; Lake Tarawera taken by Blencowe; Lyttelton harbour taken by Muir & Moodie; and Evans Bay, photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: One print at PAColl-6181-10.
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Jones, Ethel Susan :First flour mill in Auckland. The other was at Mt Eden [1915 or later]
Date: 1915 - 1925
By: Jones, Ethel Susan, 1870-1952
Reference: A-082-005
Description: The tower and sails of Partington's Windmill, seen beyond several houses Partington's windmill was not the first flourmill in Auckland. The first to be built was at Mount Eden. Shown with an alteration to the top made in 1915. Painted in 1915 or later. Inscriptions: Signed Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 279 x 228 mm
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Stevens, George Treacy, fl 1880s :Auckland. N. Z. 1885-1886. [Auckland, 1886?]
Date: 1885 - 1886
By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)
Reference: D-001-006-b
Description: Birds eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed birds-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm
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Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975 :Partington's Windmill, Auckland. [1930's]
Date: 1930 - 1939
From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Auckland scenes] / Cranleigh Barton. - [1930s?]
Reference: A-227-053
Description: Shows a windmill at the end of a road with buildings to the left and right of the windmill. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed: Cranleigh Barton Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 275 x 200 mm
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White, Duncan :View of the city of Auckland from Bellevue, North Shore. Drawn on stone ...
Date: 1864 - 1868
By: White, Duncan, active 1864-1868
Reference: C-060-001-a
Description: View from the North Shore towards Auckland City, with Partington's windmill visible on the skyline, Mount Eden in the distance Another copy, undamaged, at C-060-001 The name Bellevue is no longer in use for the North Shore Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 258 x 510 mm (to ruled line) on sheet 359 x 525 mm Provenance: Unknown
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Thomas, Joan Elva 1922- :[Partington's Mill. Auckland, J.E. Thomas, 1977?]
Date: 1977
By: Thomas, Joan Elva, 1922-
Reference: B-051-029-a
Description: Shows mill with large 4-sailed rotor, and smaller wheel at back, standing amongst old houses. No. 51 of a print run of 300. Title from notes supplied by artist. Reproduction of ink drawing. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Joan E. Thomas 77; Recto - bottom right - (In pencil): Joan E. Thomas 51/300 Built in Symonds Street, and owned by Charles Partington, and later Joseph Partington. Demolished in 1950. Therefore this work must have been drawn from a photograph or earlier drawing. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 495 x 368 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright by the artist in 1986.
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Stevens, George Treacy, fl 1880s :Auckland. N. Z. 1885-1886. [Auckland, 1886?]
Date: 1885 - 1886
By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)
Reference: D-001-006-a
Description: Birds eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed birds-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm
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Pulman, George :View of Auckland from the North Shore. [1863]
Date: 1863
By: Pulman, George, 1827-1871
Reference: A-215-002
Description: Shows wharves, ships and city with Partington's windmill. Published in Southern monthly magazine, 1863. Extended Title - View of Auckland from the North Shore. [Auckland, Southern monthly magazine, 1863 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - View of Auckland / from the North Shore.; Recto - bottom right - G. Pulman Litho., Auckland. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 100 x 167 mm
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Carabain, Jacques, b 1834 :Queen Street, Auckland, 1889. Auckland, Aotea Centre Trust B...
Date: 1883 - 1889 - 1986
By: Carabain, Jacques, 1834-1933; Aotea Centre (Auckland, N.Z.)
Reference: D-019-034-a
Description: Shows view of Queen Street, Auckland, from corner of Fort Street, with Victoria Arcade (demolished 1978) on left, and The New Zealand Insurance Company building with clock tower on right. In the left foreground is A. B. Donald's sailmaking business, and Anderson's Imperial Hotel. Partington's Mill can be seen on the distant horizon. Accompanied by descriptive text sheet. From a limited edition of 250 reproductions. Painted from an 1883 photograph by George Valentine. Inscriptions: Original signed and dated: Auckland 20 december 1889, J. Carabain. It is not known when Carabain visited New Zealand. Probably it was as a brief stopover between Melbourne and San Francisco, in about 1885. While there, he possibly purchased a copy of George Valentine's photograph from Chapman's booksellers in Vulcan Lane. From this photograph, he painted the original oil painting finishing it in his Brussels studio in 1889. Even by about 1885, when Carabain probably visited, the scene was not as it had been when Valentine took the photograph in 1883. Donald's shipchandlers had already been replaced by an imposing neoclassical facade, and the Victoria Arcade had a verandah. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 552 x 716 mm, on sheet 603 x 765 mm.
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Ely, Dunstan : Views of Auckland
Date: ca 1880s-1940s
By: Ely, Dunstan, active 1949
Reference: PAColl-4351
Description: Copy prints made by Dunstan Ely of Auckland ca 1880s, particularly views in the Albert Park area and including a view over open land to Rangitoto. Also included is a street scene of possibly Queen Street ca 1880s with Darby's US Dining Rooms, M Levy & Co, Hull Brothers, Shera Brothers and the New Zealand Insurance Company premises all visible; and a street scene of Wellesley Street ca 1940 with the State Advances Corporation building on the left and looking up towards the public library. Original photographer unidentified. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).
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Panoramic view of Auckland from the hospital
Date: [1927?]
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: Pan-2231-F
Description: Panoramic view looking down from part of Auckland Hospital with other hospital buildings in the foreground. Huge crowds of people on Grafton Road and on Grafton Bridge on the left of the image. Possibly during the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York in 1927. Partington's Mill is visible on the right of Grafton Bridge. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - 4 4 4 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 124.7 cm
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Alexander, John Hood, 1916-1975 :1. Auckland in 1852 looking up Queen St with Shortland...
Date: 1848 - 1950 - 1852 - 1959
From: Alexander, John Hood, 1916-1975 :[Twenty drawings, including of historic houses, churches, Mangapohatu, Waimate North, the first Bank of New Zealand in Auckland, and Auckland Public Library 1880. 1950s-1960s]
By: Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878; Standidge & Company
Reference: B-192-011
Description: Above, a view from the end of the wharf at the foot of Queen Street, looking towards the waterfront buildings and up Queen Street, with Partington's windmill on the skyline. A line of barrels along the wharf and two containers of goods, a man wheeling a wheelbarrow, another wheeling a barrow, two soldiers, other groups of citizens, Maori canoes and a rowboat drawn up at the water's edge on the left and groups of Maori sitting. The Wesleyan (Methodist) Chapel is on the left, above the first row of buildings. Below, a view of the old stone cottage at Panmure, built in 1848 for Colour-Sergeant Michael Ford of the New Zealand Fencibles, which was moved to the Howick Historical Village in 1998 Based on a lithograph (originally an oil painting, which is held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney) by Patrick Joseph Hogan, done in 1852. The Library holds a copy of the lithograph at C-010-020. The Library also holds watercolour copies of this view by W. S. Hatton, copied from an Illustrated London News wood engraving from this print, at B-078-012 and B-078-017 Extended Title - In: Alexander, John H: Historic Auckland (Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, 1961) p.11 and [16 Inscriptions: Recto - top right - No.A27 Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on page 380 x 250 mm
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[Schell, Frederic B], d 1905 :[The old windmill. Sydney, Picturesque Atlas Co Ltd, 1886].
Date: 1886
By: Schell, Frederic B, -1905
Reference: A-058-011
Description: A slightly cropped image from a page of the "Picturesque atlas of Australasia", page 583. It shows Partington's mill (Symonds Street Auckland), a foreground horse and cart on the road leading up to the mill. There are houses on either side of the mill. The attached image below to the right showing (with title) 'Albert Park and the old windmill' have been cropped, leaving only a section of the original illustration. Other Titles - Partington's Mill Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, handcoloured, 100 x 80 mm.
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Alexander, John Hood, 1917- :New Zealand historic buildings. Pen wash paintings with te...
Date: 1968
By: Alexander, John Hood, 1916-1975; Morton Williams Ltd
Reference: B-086-015/020
Description: Folio no 1: "Selwyn Church", Waimate North; Partington's Windmill, Auckland; Pioneer's homestead, Otaki. Folio no. 2: Manganese miner's cottage, Russell; Rev. Henry Williams' house, Pakaraka; Melanesian Mission, Auckland. Sheet of descriptive text in each folder, from which title is taken. Folder title is 'New Zealand historic buildings. Fine art prints by John H. Alexander'. Note on text: 'Typesetting and lithographic plates by Photo Engravers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand'. Issued at $5.85 per folio. Other Titles - Selwyn Church, Waimate North. Partington's Windmill, Auckland. Pioneer's homestead Otaki. Manganese miner's cottage, Russell. Rev Williams' house, Pakaraka. Melanesian Mission, Auckland Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sepia, on sheets 142 x 182 mm in 2 folders 144 x 185 mm
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McIntosh album 4
Date: [Circa 1890s to 1910s]
By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946
Reference: PA1-o-288
Description: Photographs probably taken by George William Barltrop, circa 1890s to 1910s. The first few are of New Plymouth, including the Sugar Loaves & breakwater, and New Plymouth Gardens (now Pukekura Park). The rest of the album contains views of the Auckland region, including Onehunga (one showing cattle being loaded onto a ship), Mangere, Albert Park, Mount Eden (with one scene of the interior of the Mount Eden crater), Hobson Bay, Parnell, St Stephen's Avenue, St Paul's Church (Symonds Street), and Auckland Harbour. Inscriptions: Album page - Geo W Barltrop Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, impressed title `Photographic views'; `McIntosh IV' lettered in gold on spine; 17.5 x 24.0 cm.
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Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975 :Partington's Mill, Auckland. [1930s]
Date: 1930 - 1939
From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Auckland scenes] / Cranleigh Barton. - [1930s?]
Reference: A-227-053-1
Description: Shows a windmill on top of a hill overlooking houses. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed: Cranleigh Barton Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 200 x 280 mm
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Stack, Frederick Rice :View of Auckland, New Zealand, from the crater of Mount Eden / d...
Date: 1862
By: Stack, Frederick Rice, -1873; Day & Son (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: C-060-015-a
Description: The crater of Mount Eden in the foreground, with grazing cows, goats and sheep and the city and harbour spread out in the background. Partington's Windmill can be seen on the left and various church spires. North Head and Rangitoto Island are in the distance Proof before lettering, which is inscribed in pencil. Otherwise the same as C-060-015 Extended Title - Plate from: Stack, F R. Views in the province of Auckland (London, 1862). Plate 2. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-col., image, 200 x 408 mm on sheet 380 x 570 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull. Ordered from F. Edwards, London, 11 November 1892, for 20/- the set of six
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Alexander, John Hood, 1917- :Partington's windmill, Auckland. John H Alexander. 1967
Date: 1968
From: Alexander, John Hood, 1917- :New Zealand historic buildings. Pen wash paintings with text by John H. Alexander. Auckland, Morton Williams Ltd, 1968.
Reference: B-086-016
Description: View of the windmill and buildings on either side of the path leading to the main door under the sign `J Partington'. There are a small boy and girl with a basket on the grass in the immediate foreground. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, sepia, on sheet 182 x 142 mm
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Grafton Bridge, Auckland
Date: ca 1920
By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923
Reference: 1/2-002205-F
Description: A postcard of Grafton Bridge, with carts, a cyclist and pedestrians crossing it, and Partington's mill in the background. A notice concerning the speed limit on the bridge is visible on the right. Photographer was Frederick Radcliffe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative