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Bennett, Margaret (Mrs) :Family photographs and albums relating to Gavin G Wallace
- Date
- 1880-1977
- By
- Bennett, Margaret, active 1918?-1992
- Reference
- PAColl-2480
- Description
Most of this collection relates to family, friends, pets, home, garden and trips to Britain. The record of the first trip of 1838/39 is interesting as it includes a shot of the Italian troops preparing for the invasion of Albania. War was declared when they were on the way home on the SS Rimutaka and there are photographs of passengers painting the ship in camouflage colours
99% of the photographs date from ca 1912 to ca 1977
Gavin George Wallace was born in 1894 in Yorkshire, England. His father was a keeper on an Earl's estate. At some stage in his early life he was adopted by an uncle, James Wilson Wallace and his wife, who lived at 6 Halswell Street, Thorndon, Wellington. James Wilson Wallace was a businessman who owned a factory in Wakefield Street which traded under the name of Wallace and Co. Gavin Wallace took it over in about 1933 and turned it into a mattress factory which made the first inner sprung mattresses in New Zealand. The factory also produced folding theatre seates. Gavin's first wife was Marjorie Peerless who died in 1936. In about 1937 he married his wife's younger sister, Joan Peerless, who features in in most of the photographs. She died in the 1975. In 1929 the telephone directory lists Gavin Wallace as living in Church Street, Karori. By the mid 1930s he was living at 6 Hauriki Street, Karori, and was there until the end of the Second World War. After the Second World War, Gavin and Joan retired to Tauranga where they had a house on a large section at Wallace Road, RD 2, Te Puna. Gavin Wallace was listed in the Telephone Directory at this address up to and including 1979. Most of the photographs of them and their House and garden date from this period in their lives. Gavin Wallace had no children from either of his marriages. He died in 1980.
Quantity: 11 album(s). 1570 b&w original photographic print(s). 47 colour original photographic print(s).
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- 11 album(s), 1570 b&w original photographic print(s), 47 colour original photographic print(s), Photographs
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Family photographs and albums relating to Gavin G Wallace
Date: ca1937-ca1960
From: Bennett, Margaret (Mrs) :Family photographs and albums relating to Gavin G Wallace
Reference: PAColl-2480-4
Description: These photographs relate to Gavin Wallace's life after he married his second wife Joan in 1937. Most of them date from the late 1930s, the 1940s, and the very early 1950s. For most of this period the Wallaces lived at 6 Hauriki Street Karori and there are photogrphs of them at home here with friends, with their pet dogs, working in the garden, or just sitting inside. There are also some views of the neighbourhood. Other photographs relate to their holidays and overseas trips. There are a number of shots recrding skiing at Chateau Tongariro, and others recording their trips to Britain in 1939 and 1950/51. A large propotion of the photographs date from the period of the Second World War and show Gavin Wallace with others in uniform As with most of the groups of photographs in these collections there are a good number of portraits of the Wallaces pet dogs Quantity: 594 b&w original photographic print(s). 15 colour original photographic print(s).
Family photographs and albums relating to Gavin G Wallace
Date: ca1912-ca1970
From: Bennett, Margaret (Mrs) :Family photographs and albums relating to Gavin G Wallace
Reference: PAColl-2480-3
Description: Mainly family photographs relating to Gavin G Wallace Quantity: 112 b&w original photographic print(s).
Photograph album of family and friends
Date: [ca 1910-1913]
From: Bennett, Margaret (Mrs) :Family photographs and albums relating to Gavin G Wallace
Reference: PA1-o-773
Description: This album relates to Gavin G Wallace as a youth while he was still in England and later in New Zealand. It is likely that he came to live with his uncle and aunt in Wellington ca 1911 when he was about 18-20 years old. The Gavin Wallace in the English photographs is of secondary school age. He is seen with his family and others, and with his school contemporaries. That he was still in Britain in 1911 is suggested by his presence in a group photoraph of "C Squadron" in training at Bridlington in 1911 which may make 1912 the year of his settlement in New Zealand. This is the earliest date of the New Zealand photographs where he is seen with his aunt and uncle at their house in Halswell Street Thorndon, Wellington. The New Zealand photographs largly show him at leisure activities such as on the beach with friends, hooning around in a car, or in more formal situations on verandahs Quantity: 1 album(s).
Album recording a tour of England
Date: 1939
From: Bennett, Margaret (Mrs) :Family photographs and albums relating to Gavin G Wallace
Reference: PA1-o-770
Description: tour through south west and North east of England with special emphasis on London and York Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Album of family photographs, New Zealand and overseas
Date: ca1913-ca1914
From: Bennett, Margaret (Mrs) :Family photographs and albums relating to Gavin G Wallace
Reference: PA1-o-768
Description: This album is a compilation recording a trip to Britain and Canada made by James Wilson Wallace and his wife prior to the First World War. James Wallace adopted his brother's son Gavin who by this time was living with him and his wife in Wellington. Gavin does not feature in this album, but it is highly likley that members of his Yorkshire family do. There is a record of a visit to Fountains Abbey, the seaside and unidentified towns. Military manoeuvers involving soldiers on horseback were observed, and there are two photographs of the experimental military aircraft, the B.E.2a, designed by De Haviland for the British Government in late 1912. There are photographs of Malta and (presumably) British battleships in the harbour. As well as Canada the Wallaces also seem to have visited Japan It is likely that the photographs in the album do not strictly follow the sequence of their trip Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Album of Scotland and the Lake District
Date: 1939
From: Bennett, Margaret (Mrs) :Family photographs and albums relating to Gavin G Wallace
Reference: PA1-o-771
Description: Last of three albums recording a trip to Britain by Gavin Wallace and his wife. This one deals with Scotland and the Lake District. They returned to New Zealand on the SS Rimutaka during August/September 1939. It was during this part of the trip that war was declared and there are photographs of the Passengers painting the ship in camouflage colours Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Family photographs relating to Gavin G Wallace
Date: [ca 1880-1977]
From: Bennett, Margaret (Mrs) :Family photographs and albums relating to Gavin G Wallace
Reference: PAColl-2480-2
Description: Family photographs relating to Gavin G Wallace and his second wife Joan Peerless Quantity: 331 b&w original photographic print(s). 23 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints
Album of a second trip to Britain
Date: ca1953
From: Bennett, Margaret (Mrs) :Family photographs and albums relating to Gavin G Wallace
Reference: PA1-o-772
Description: Shipboard scenes and activities. Most of the album records friends and places visited in England, but there is no identifying information Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Album of Family, friends, home and holidays
Date: 1951
From: Bennett, Margaret (Mrs) :Family photographs and albums relating to Gavin G Wallace
Reference: PA1-o-776
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).
Family and friends
Date: ca1952
From: Bennett, Margaret (Mrs) :Family photographs and albums relating to Gavin G Wallace
Reference: PA1-o-777
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).