Tyndale-Biscoe family: Photographs

Date: 1925-1926

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1296

Description: Loose pages of photograph album mainly featuring central North Island holiday scenes, 1925 to 1926. Compiled by Eric Tyndale-Biscoe with photographs possibly taken by Tyndale-Biscoe and Phyllis Long as well as others unidentified photographers. Some photographs are captioned by Tyndale-Biscoe. Tyndale-Biscoe appears in a number of images. Teachers from Nga Tawa School and Wanganui Collegiate also feature, in particular Phyllis Long. The horse Ngaio is also photographed. A camping trip to Kai Iwi Beach with the McGrath and Austin families in January 1926 shows children Mary, Hugh, and Joan McGrath on horseback as well as camp site images and beach and coastal scenes. A further trip to Kai Iwi in September 1926 with the McGraths, Sylvia Lysaght, and Else J. Rowe shows similar scenes. A January 1926 camping trip at Lake Taupo includes informal group portraits of the party, camp site scenes (eating, drinking, sleeping, clothing, tents), a geyser at Tokaanu, and lakeside scenes (swimming, swimming with horses, and posing on rocks). Also contains photographs of an excursion to Turakina Beach. Album contains photographs of two Central Plateau excursions based out of Whakapapa Village in July-September 1925 and September 1926. Images of the first trip show members of the party (Tyndale-Biscoe, C. N. Maclean, Miss Preuter, Miss Pease, Miss Harvey, Phyllis Long, Miss Dudding, N. A . Baines, and Miss Lisaght [sic]), the huts in which they stayed, Long and Tyndale-Biscoe on the summit of Ruapehu, Ruapehu crater lake, and snow scenes. The second trip shows members of the party (Frank McGrath, Elizabeth McGrath, Else J. Rowe, G. Downing, and T. Adams), the huts in which they stayed, tramping, mountaineering, roads in the area, and scenic images (Mount Ruapehu, Mount Ngauruhoe, and Little Tama Lake). Tyndale-Biscoe is also photographed with his motorbike at Mokoia and repairing a wheel on the roadside of Wangaehu Hill. Some images include passengers in sidecar and on the pillion. Another set of images, possibly of a Wanganui Collegiate excursion, show the clearing a pathway in the snow and hut interior scenes: [students?] Dennis Young, Aubrey Fullterton-Smith, and Tom Latham are photographed by a fire and another image shows [teachers?] N. A. Baines and F. H. Latham playing cards in hut. Also contains a large formal group portrait of Wanganui Collegiate students and teachers in front of school building. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 120 prints. Physical Description: Four loose card album pages, 25.2 x 37.6 cm Processing information: Item re-allocated to a different Unit id after being boxed in August 2018.

Date: 1923-1926

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Photographs

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: PA1-o-1946

Description: Photograph album, mainly of holidays, compiled by Phyllis Long during her time in New Zealand, 1923 to 1926. Some photographs are likely taken by Long but other photographers are unidentified. Album features horse treks and horse riding. Two treks with Sylvia Lysaght are covered; one in Taranaki and Waikato Regions in January-February 1925, and the other from Wanganui to Lake Taupo, December 1925-January 1926. Includes images of Long and Lysaght on their horses Ngaio and Ladybird, places they stayed (camp sites, houses, huts), people they stayed with, and scenic images (bush, mountains, rivers, farmland, and coast). Images from the second trek feature the party of colleagues and friends Long and Lysaght joined (including Eric Tyndale-Biscoe and [Hugh Austin?]) and the Lake Taupo site at which they camped and as well as an unidentified Maori whanau with whom the duo stayed on their return journey. Tramping and mountaineering trips also feature in the album. One set shows a holiday to the Central Plateau, with the party staying in a hut at Whakapapa Village. Photographs include excursions to the summit of Mount Ruapehu, Tama Lakes, Whakapapa Falls, and Taranaki Falls as well as some skiing images. Another set of images is taken on a trip to the Taranaki Region. Mount Egmont (Mount Taranaki) features with Long and a female companion pictured on the summit. There are also a number of images of Dawson Falls, including some swimming and bush scenes, and scenic images of the mountain and surrounding area, with Doreen Ross pictured in one image. Other places visited by Long include Wanganui and at a farm with an unidentified family [Ross or Lysaght?]. Photographs from the farm show various people (including children), a chicken coop, lambs being fed, dogs, and horses. Another set of photographs show a motoring, camping, and picnicking excursions in a Model TT Ford covered truck. In addition to Tyndale-Biscoe, Frank and Elizabeth McGrath and their children Mary, Joan, [and Hugh?] appear in numerous photographs. McGrath family images include informal as well as a set of formal studio portraits of both groups and individual members. The family in captured motoring, in beach scenes [Kai Iwi camping trip?], on horseback, riding bikes, reading, and at a Mokoia farmhouse, with Long and Tyndale-Biscoe often appearing in photographs with them. Other people that feature include Long's teaching colleagues and friends from Nga Tawa and Wanganui Collegiate schools. Those identified in captions include Tyndale-Biscoe, "Shrimp", Else Rowe , Aubrey Fullerton-Smith, Conrad, Mr Latham, Mr [Cr]opper?, Mr [F.H.?] Latham, Mr Izard, Doreen Ross, and Roy Ross. Album also includes a studio portrait of Phyllis Tyndale-Biscoe in 1927. There are a number of images of Tyndale-Biscoe with his motorcycle. Commercial postcards feature photographs of Mount Ruapehu, Mount Ngauruhoe, and Mount Egmont (Mount Taranaki) as well as Waitomo Caves limestone formations, Wanganui River, and Wanganui Collegiate School. Three postcards are addressed to members of Long's family in England (and were sent). Another two postcards were sent to Long by Tyndale-Biscoe and "Himself" [Frank McGrath?]. Also a note from Hugh [McGrath?] to Long sent while she was travelling home to England. Larger mounted print of image of Long's horse Ngaio at PAColl-10463. Two treks and other excursions are described in depth in Long's diaries and letters to her parents. Tyndale-Biscoe's letters also describing mountaineering, motoring, and camping trips to his parents (MS-Group-2409). Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 260 prints, some loose. Physical Description: Photograph album with green textured cover, 21.4 x 25.8 cm Processing information: Prints that have come loose from the album as well postcards and prints stored in pocket at rear of album have been arranged in an enclosure which is held in the back of the box containing the album.

Date: 1923-1930

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1945

Description: Album of photographs compiled by Phyllis Long of her journey to New Zealand in 1923, time teaching at Nga Tawa School, and return to England in 1926. Also includes photographs likely taken in Kashmir in circa 1928-1930. Long is likely the photographer of most images, with other photographers unidentified. Some images have captions. Photographs of Long's trip to New Zealand on board the ship 'Tainui' include a commercial postcard of the ship and passengers waving from the deck as the ship leaves the wharf, Panama Canal (Culebra Cut, Gatun Lock, Mira Flores Lock, dredges, and a coaling station), Pitcairn Island, and Pitcairn Islanders approaching in a rowboat and selling local goods on board the ship. Further ship board scenes show deck sports (croquet, tennis), crossing the line ceremony (greasy pole, Father Neptune), unidentified people in deck chairs, and Phyllis Long with various children including Jo, Eileen, Audrey, and the Whiteside family. Nga Tawa photographs show the original school building (Wellington Diocesan School) with images of the entrance, a side view, and veranda. Also the swimming bath and interior images of the dining room and gym. Album also includes a photograph of the new school building, built after the 1924 fire. Students in school uniform are seen on excursions with Long such as having a picnic beside a river and in a copse of trees, wading in the water [Rangitikei River?], swimming, and on the poolside during swimming event. One poolside image shows a large monster costume. Teacher's accommodation where Long lived (a cottage on the school grounds) is shown with exterior and interior images and sometimes with teachers, including Long, in shot. Miss Else J. Rowe, Miss Halstead, Miss Cooper-Evans, and Frances McCall (the headmistress) are identified. Also images of their horses Ngaio, Kaiwarau, Pipette, and Petone. In one image McCall holds a puppy. Long and other teachers are also seen setting out for a picnic on horseback and swimming in a river under a railway bridge. Some group photographs show teachers and students. Other images show a pitched tent, boiling billies over a campfire, flooded farmland, an unidentified obelisk-shaped memorial, Long and an unidentified man standing on coastal rocks in Sydney, and a Rough Collie dog with a stick. Image of Long's return to England on board the ship 'Marama' in 1926 include unidentified people on deck and children in fancy dress. A series of images, likely of Kashmir, show river scenes (canoe with outrigger, [house boats?]), street scenes (pineapple stall, rickshaw, water buffalo pulling carts), children swimming, and houses. See Phylis Long's letters home to her parents describing her arrival and life at the school in MS-Papers-11956-05. Phyllis Long taught at Nga Tawa School near Marton from 1923-1926. She met her future husband Eric Tyndale-Biscoe during this time. They moved to Kashmir after they married in England in 1927. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 132 prints. Physical Description: Photograph album with plain brown leather cover, 22.6 x 24.9 cm Processing information: One print of Nga Tawa school was was loose and has been placed in an enclosure at the rear of the album.

Date: [ca 1923-1925]

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10463

Description: Mounted portrait of Phyllis Long's horse Ngaio, circa 1923 to 1925. Photographer unidentified. Shows Ngaio's profile from head to withers and down to forearm. She is wearing a bridle and standing by a fence with a tree in the background. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. Physical Description: Photograph print mounted on card Processing information: Photographed originally stored with Long's diary of horse trek (MS-Papers-11956-08).