Architect Thomas Turnbull. Builders were Thomson and McLean. Building completed about July 1888. School opened in 1889. Building demolished end of 1936 to make way for fire station. Clyde Quay Infant School designed by Thomas Turnbull. Builders Thomson & Co. Building completed about March 1890. School moved to Elizabeth Street in 1925. The school holds records from 1915 onwards. Earlier records held by Archives New Zealand. Photographed by G L Adkin in March 1918, on its original site at the beginning of Oriental Parade (Present site of the Fire Station.) See Adkin Album at Pa1-o-007 (image 17).
Clyde Quay School
Clyde Quay School Parents' Collective : records
Date: 1980-1984
By: Clyde Quay School Parents' Collective
Reference: MS-Group-1653
Description: Records of the Clyde Quay School Association, and later, Parents' Collective, relating to matters of school funding and conflicts with Ministry of Education. Includes projects such as the Blerta Film Festival and contact with Akitio School. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 7 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres.
Clyde Quay School - Mt Victoria, Wellington
Date: 1938
Reference: 1/2-055158-F
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
The Rhodes/Vizer records. Part Two - Reminiscences of Alan Geoffrey Rhodes
Date: Aug 2001
From: Rhodes, Valerie June, 1932- : Spencer and Rhodes family histories
Reference: MSX-8196
Description: Reminiscence of this early years growing up in Mount Victoria, Wellington, and teenage years spent in Lyall Bay, Wellington. Describes the family homes at Derby Street and Kent Terrace, Mount Victoria; holidays at Hihitahi; childhood entertainment; war years and visit of the Pamir; hobbies (reading, model-making); years at Clyde Quay School (includes photo of Std 1 taken in 1939) and time spent at Otaki Health Camp. Move to Queens Drive, Lyall Bay and years at Wellington College. Discusses first years of his working life and ends with his move to Upper Hutt as an optometrist with Cocks & Newall, and meeting his wife Valerie Spencer in 1954. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: Surname index at back.
Clyde Quay School (Wellington): [Ephemera. 1949-2000s]
Date: 1949 - 2009
From: [Ephemera concerning individual schools, with names beginning with C. 1870-2009]
Reference: Eph-A-SCHOOLS-Clyde
Description: Includes: Diamond Jubilee, 1889-1949. Divine worship and thanksgiving, 26 November 1950. Programme 75th year celebrations 1889-1964. 13-15 1964. Programme School concert and social evening, 10 April 1976. Greek Community Hall, Lloyd St, Mt Victoria. Ticket Social function in honour of Mr Harold Reynolds who served 18 years on the Committee. 9 July [1977]. Invitation card Clyde Quay concert, 13 September 2000. Programme ca 2003: Clyde Quay School film evening. Flier Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Pamphlets and fliers, sizes varying up to 240 mm.
Children on their first day of school at Clyde Quay School, Wellington
Date: 3 February 1976
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1976/0428-F
Description: Children on their first day at school photographed in the playground of Clyde Quay School, Wellington, New Zealand. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 3rd of February 1976. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Clyde Quay School :2002 Mount Victoria historical calendar.
Date: 2001 - 2002
From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]
By: Clyde Quay School
Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-2002-03
Description: Each of the twelve openings shows an early photograph of the Mount Victoria suburb of Wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on calendar pages, each 213 x 298 mm.
Clyde Quay School :[Ephemera of quarto size. 1940-2019]
Date: 1940 - 2019
Reference: Eph-B-SCHOOLS-Clyde-Quay-1940/2019
Description: Includes: 1949: Diamond Jubilee celebrations [1949]. 2 flyers 1976: Minutes of School council meeting 14 April 1976 1985?: Christmas trees for sale, from December 12th [1985? - donated in 1986] 2008: Clyde Quay School fair! 5 April [2008]. Flyer only Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Pamphlets and fliers, sizes varying up to 330 mm.
Photographic prints relating to education
Date: 1950-2000
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: PAColl-7327-1-057
Description: Photographs relating to education, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Includes photographs related to the Young Enterprise Scheme award, and the AGC Young Achievers' Award. Images relating to general education are arranged alphabetically from SP to Y Images relating to primary education are arranged alphabetically from A to I Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.
Clyde Quay
Date: [1920s]
From: Fortune, Reo Franklin, 1903-1979: Papers
Reference: 80-323-292
Description: Material comprises of one leaf which consists of academic notes on one side and a list of boys names listed in order of end of year exams on the other (presumedly from Clyde Quay School). Material may belong to Eileen Fortune Other - Title transcribed from item Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Ms
Education Department album 3
Date: [1920s]
From: New Zealand Department of Education: Photographs of schools
By: Green & Hahn (Firm); Esquilant, William Charles, 1866-1952; Lovell-Smith, Hubert John, 1881-1948; Steffano Webb Photographic Studio; Campbell Photography; Drummond, G, active 1920s
Reference: PA1-o-147
Description: Album showing school and university buildings, chiefly in the Auckland region. Several images show the buildings under construction, or newly built. Photographs taken by various photographers for the Education Department, during the 1920s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth-bound album, 19 x 32 cm
Adkin album 09
Date: From 1911 to 1949
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-o-007
Description: Black & white photographs of the Wellington area, Vol 1 (images 1-240), taken by G L Adkin between 1911 and 1949. Earlier images include the house Fern Hill (at 324 The Terrace), and views from the house; Kelburn Cable Car tunnel, and view of the cable car from Kelburn Park; Wellington Botanic Garden; inner city views of Willis St., Lambton Quay (1913); Lyall Bay, Kilbirnie isthmus, Wellington Heads, Oriental Bay (1913); Harbour and city; swimming carnival at Island Bay; city from Mt Cook trig station (1918); panorama of Thorndon with Pipitea Point reclamation from the Nth end of Barnard St (1923); interior view of the Wellington City Corporation Trams Shed at Newtown; Kemp Point Powerhouse, Evans Bay; Miramar Gas Works (1923); Wider views of the city with Tinakori Ridge from Roseneath, Oriental Bay, Lyall Bay (1926); loading the Maheno (1926). Laying Foundation Stone of new railway station by the Duke of Gloucester, showing steel frame of the building under construction (17 December 1934). Views around the city in 1936, including Worser Bay, Breaker Bay, Dorset Point, Queens Drive, the city (panorama from Karepa St, Brooklyn); "wilds of Wellington" Mitchelltown, Highbury, Taitville, and Kelburn (from Karepa St); snow on hills and at Mt Kaukau (2 August 1936). Centennial Exhibition (6 March 1940). Views around the bays in 1948, Lyall Bay, Evans Bay, Kilbirnie, Eastbourne, Days Bay, Lowry Bay. Comparative views from Mt Alfred (1 taken in 1948, the other in 1905). Pamir sailing ship at Aotea Quay (December 1948); railway yards; Kaiwharawhara Gorge (1948); and the first visit of the Solent flying boat Ararangi to Evans Bay, October 1949.
Clyde Quay School :2004 Mount Victoria historical calendar. [2003]
Date: 2004
From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]
By: Clyde Quay School
Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-2004-01
Description: Calendar of 13 openings, showing sepia photographs of early scenes from the Mt Victoria area: January. Private wharves on the Te Aro foreshore, 1855. February. Clyde Quay School First XV, 1905. March. Dominion Day at the Basin Reserve, 1908. April. Stranded whales at Te Aro, 1882-1883. May. Public transport prior to electric trams, 1900/1904. June. Corner Pirie Street and Kent Terrace, ca 1886. July. Clyde Quay School renovations, 1935. August. Six-wheel truck trial, mid 1920s. September. Tram crash at the corner of Pirie and Brougham Streets, ca 1920. October. The first pick is swung for the Mt Victoria Tunnel, 1930. November. Mt Victoria from Courtenay Place, 1925. December. Clyde Quay School art class 1949. 2005, and Cover. Te Aro Baths Oriental Bay, 1926. Two copies held. Images reproduced from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 1 calendar. Physical Description: Sepia photolithographs on pages each 210 x 300 mm.
Ephemera relating to specific buildings in Wellington
Date: 2008-2019
By: The Friends of the Futuna Charitable Trust; City Gallery Wellington; Clyde Quay School; Colonial Cottage Museum Society Inc; Friends of Old St. Paul's Society; Lilburn Residence Trust; Metropolitan Cathedral of the Sacred Heart (Wellington, N.Z.); New Zealand Historic Places Trust; St. Andrew's on the Terrace (Church : Wellington, N.Z.); St. Francis de Sales (Parish church : Wellington, N.Z.); St. Mary of the Angels (Church : Wellington, N.Z.); Thistle Inn (Wellington, N.Z.); Turnbull House (Wellington, N.Z.). Council; Wellington (N.Z.). City Council; Wellington Cathedral of St. Paul
Reference: Eph-A-BUILDINGS-Wellington-2008/2019
Description: Comprises ephemera relating to specific buildings in Wellington from the period 2008 to 2019. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 56 pieces of ephemera.
Clifford Arthur Perry - Receipts and papers
Date: 1909-1950
From: Perry family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-4415-1
Description: Consists of a number of receipts for work done, purchases and War Relief Association loan installment payments. Also papers concerning the Home Guard, dated 1942, a letter from the War Relief Association of Wellington dated 1925 and a number of educational certificates. These certificates consist of a Certificate of Proficiency issued by Clyde Quay school to Perry on 30 Nov 1909 and a number of Percentage Certificates issued by the International Correspondence Schools in various subjects during 1914. Also included is a brief description of Perry's military training in 1916. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Robson, John Lochiel :Photograph of returned soldiers preparing for Public Service exam...
Date: ca 1920, 1976
By: Robson, John Lochiel (Dr), 1909-1991; New Zealand. Repatriation Department
Reference: PAColl-3205
Description: Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope. Physical Description: Photoprint 152 x 202mm; photoprint 203 x 254mm
Photographs of 1903 Clyde Quay School rugby team, and meeting house
Date: 1905-ca 1915
Reference: PAColl-6187
Description: Photograph of 1903 Clyde Quay School team, and two photographs of an unidentified meeting house. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).
Clyde Quay School, Wellington
Date: 1927
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP-1437-1/2-G
Description: From box containing EP-1427 to 1444 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Kendo display at Clyde Quay School, Wellington
Date: 24 August 1994
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1994/2588-F
Description: Kendo display at Clyde Quay School, Wellington, by experts Masaaki Mitani and Masahiro Yamada from the fest of Japan. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 14th of august 1994 Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negative, 35mm
Clyde Quay School, Wellington
Date: 1927
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP-1438-1/2-G
Description: From box containing EP-1427 to 1444 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Clyde Quay School, Wellington
Date: 1927
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP-1436-1/2-G
Description: From box containing EP-1427 to 1444 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).