Places

Date: 1987 - 1990

From: Parnham, J W :Houses and buildings in Petone, Alicetown and Wellington

By: Parnham, John Warrington, 1917-2006

Reference: PAColl-1618-1

Description: Parliament buildings, Petone Fire Station during and after construction, plaque installed at the Patrick Street Historical Precinct by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, Hutt River viaduct, and houses in Alicetown Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s). Finding Aids: Photocopies identifying Alicetown houses and Patrick street plaque housed with collection. Provenance: Photographs taken by Mr Parnham

Date: 1946

Reference: Eph-A-FIRE-1946-01

Description: Lists members of the Gore Volunteer Fire Brigade as at 9 September 1946, including the auxiliart service, Fire Police Corps, Ladies' Ambulance section and Gold Star members. The programme included variety items interspersed with dances. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on folded card, 180 x 115 mm.

Date: 1974 - 1975

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[51 volumes of architectural plans]

By: Gabites, Alington & Edmondson (Firm)

Reference: E-928-f-033

Description: Includes exterior perspective drawing, floor and ceiling plans, blcokwork plan, sections and elevations, toilets and kitchen details, window and door schedules, plumbing and finishes schedules, hose tower, foundation plan and details, blockwork plans and elevations, roof details. Also includes plans by Falkner Butler & Associates, engineers. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Bound volume of diazo prints, blue spine, 600 x 310 mm.

Date: ca 1945

By: Watson, Launa, active 2003; Bettridge, Ethel, active 1945

Reference: PAColl-7915

Description: Photograph of the Tawa fire station (background) with a flock of sheep in the foreground, taken 1945 or 1946 from 1 Roy Street, by Ethel Bettridge. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 6.7 x 11.2 cm

Date: 1901-1964

From: Stuart, Henrietta, fl 1950s :Postcard albums

Reference: PAColl-9327

Description: Most of the postcards date from 1901 to ca 1925. Ships and harbours include - Shipping at Port Wanganui. View of Oamaru Harbour. View of Port Chalmers. Ships at Timaru wharves. Wakanui in the Port of Napier. Views of the Napier breakwater. Ship in Queen Charlotte Sound. Ship in George Sound. Ship and yachts, Kawau Island, Auckland. Ships include - Queen Mary. Soudan. Titanic. Achaea. City of Bradford. Omrah. USS Kentucky. Riverina. Mapourika. Victory. Euryalus. Fire station and brigades include - Vigilant Fire Co, York, Pennsylvania, USA. Fire station, Bayshore, Long Island, New York, USA. Darlington Fire Station, Australia. Horse drawn fire engine and firemen. Wanganui Fire Station. Amsterdam Fire Station, Holland. View of Hawera from the Fire Station. Sydenham Public Library and Fire Station, Christchurch. Unidentified fire station. Postcards depicting places and fires include - Ruins of the first printing office, Pahia. View of Lyall Bay, Wellington. Parliament buildings on Fire, Wellington, 11 December 1907. Crowd watching a house fire, Willis Street, Wellington. Balloon advertising Suratura Tea, Days Bay, Lower Hutt. Funeral procession for the people who died in the wreck of the Penguin, on Karori Road, Wellington, February 1909. Trams at Perrett's Corner, Wellington, November 1962. All Black rugby team, 1905. View of Auckland and Rangitoto Island surrounded by a page from The New Zealand Herald. Last tram to run, Wellington, 2 May 1964. Horse drawn tram, Christchurch. St Brides Convent, Masterton. Group of photographs by Zac of spectators at sports events. Included are - Spectators at a seven aside game, Wellington. Spectators at the Otago-Wellington match, Wellington, 19 September 1908. Thermal wonders, Indians, and Maori include - The pink and white terraces. Maori women washing clothes in a hot pool. Wairakei geyser in action. Maori man in traditional costume. Guide Bella, Whakarewarewa. Boiling lake, Rotomahana. Ash-covered ruins of mission church, Wairoa, after the Tarawera eruption. Tepees in a North American Indian encampment. Stoney Indian girl in traditional costume. Sioux Indian man in traditional costume. Dancing Mexican Indians wearing large fan-shaped headdresses. Samoan woman in traditional costume. Moana Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii. Hawaian fisherman, Honolulu. Women holding a feather cloak, New Zealand. Maori women and children in traditional costume. Mounted print showing a Maori woman and a Pakeha man seated in front of a richly carved meeting house.

Date: ca1939-ca1945

By: Cartwright, Raymond Alex, active 1930-1953; Cartwright, S (Mr), active 2003

Reference: PAColl-7843

Description: The largest group of photographs relate to an Institution of Fire Engineers conference held at the Central Wellington Fire Station. Images of this event show fire engines and other support vehicles, and operational demonstrations of equipment such as hoses and ladders. Other photographs were taken during R A Cartwright's service as a fireman in Dunedin during World War 2. One group is of a house and garden at Blueskin Bay, Otago, and includes views of the Bay and surrounding landscape. There are two photographs of the Dunedin Central Fire Station, and two of the Ford motor factory at Lower Hutt. Other images are of trucks on a farm, Wellington, and a view of the war memorial arch at Christchurch. Arrangement: Negative at 1/4-108085-F to 1/4-108247-F. Quantity: 150 b&w original negative(s). 2 b&w original negative(s) negative strips with 4 images. 109 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Transfer from MS-Papers-7535.

Date: [Chiefly between 1912 and 1914]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-198

Description: Album of photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1912 and 1914. Images include Godber's family, a few of identified people (names listed in the name file), and many with no identification. One image of a group of fitters and turners apprentices at the Petone Railway Workshops, taken in 1913, has all the apprentices named (listed in the full record for Godber negative, APG-0457-1/2) Views of the old Central Fire Station at Petone, and the new Petone Fire Brigade Station; the aftermath of a huge fire at Cooks' Cooperage (on January 14, 1914); and a locomotive which had rolled. Local Petone scenes include the Petone Council Chambers and town clock, and a number of houses in the area, including the home of Godber's friend Tom Mather; Korokoro bush, and the Korokoro Reservoir. Away from the Wellington area, Godber photographed a number of houses in Clonbern Road area; the Makatote Viaduct and the Manganui-o-te-Ao Viaduct. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 107 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 25 x 32 cm

Date: 1981

Reference: Eph-A-FIRE-1981-01

Description: Folded card containing a list of the members of the official party, and a programme of the ceremony. Speakers included Fire Commander C W Gray, Mayor Mr F R Miller, Rear-Admiral E C Thorne, Rev W J Gaudin. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on card folded to 172 x 114 mm. Provenance: Donated by the New Zealand Fire Service, Wellington, in 2012. Transfers: Taken in by Published, transfers made from there..

Date: 1924

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1471-F

Description: Photograph of 47 fire fighters in full uniform with helmets, lined up in front of their fire engines in front of the Christchurch Fire Station, a two-storeyed brick building with large arched windows in the centre upstairs. Group of bystanders watching from the far right. Taken by Robert Percy Moore in 1924 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Fire Brigade Christchurch. 1924; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] ChCh Fire Brigade. N.Z.; Marginal notes on negative - 9 9 9 9 9 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic film negative 24.7 x 114.0 cm

Date: 1987

From: Parnham, J W :Houses and buildings in Petone, Alicetown and Wellington

By: Parnham, John Warrington, 1917-2006

Reference: 35mm-14319

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) (35mm strip) containing 5 images. Finding Aids: Photocopies identifying Alicetown houses housed with PAColl-1618-1. Provenance: Photographs taken by Mr Parnham

Date: 1974

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

By: Gabites, Alington & Edmondson (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2006-058-201

Description: Shows a perspective drawing of the exterior of a single-level building complex, with a fire truck at the far left. Original file numbering was: 004.02.05.045 Quantity: 1 plan(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink drawing on draughting film, 590 x 830 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: 1900 - 1950

From: Bathgate, Alexander William, 1881-1961 :Collection of photographic prints, negatives and lantern slides

Reference: PAColl-3001-06

Description: Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1989 - 1990

From: Parnham, J W :Houses and buildings in Petone, Alicetown and Wellington

By: Parnham, John Warrington, 1917-2006

Reference: 35mm-14320-F

Description: Petone Fire Station and the plaque installed at the Patrick Street Historical Precinct by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) (35mm strip) containing 5 images. Finding Aids: Photocopies identifying Patrick street plaque housed with PAColl-1618-1. Provenance: Photographs taken by Mr Parnham

Date: [ca 1950s]

From: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.): Photographs

By: Jenkins, Norman J, active 1950s; Shep, active 1950s

Reference: PAColl-0811-06-07

Description: Tauranga Fire Station for the Tauranga Fire Board designed in the 1950s (architect: Norman J Jenkins). Photograph taken in the 1950s by `Shep'. Reference notes: Shep photo. NZH 26.6.57. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 54 x 45 mm, mounted on to paper

Date: 1929-1948

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-4869

Description: Mostly views of Wellington, in paticular some of the major building projects, between1929 and1940. All of the Wellington material is probably from the Evening Post. There are two photographs of Wanganui and five German aerial reconnaisance photographs dating from 1918 Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1997-1998

From: Holman, Dinah, 1938- :Photographs of New Zealand buildings relating to heritage surveys

Reference: PAColl-9989-10

Description: Buildings include - Views of streets in Waitara and New Plymouth. Views of Houses including groups of state houses and railway houses. Some commercial buildings including a closed dairy factory. Public buildings such as schools and churches. Gates to Pukekura Park in New Plymouth. Views of cemeteries. One stone buit farm building. Some landscape views across pasture land to hills beyond. Quantity: 148 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1940 - 1941

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-024-001/006

Description: Floor plans, sections and elevation. Also includes plans for new houses at the fire station, for the Wellington Fire Board. Quantity: 6 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings, on tracing paper, sizes varying up to 530 x 750 mm.

Date: [1960s-1980s]

From: Rowling, Wallace Edward, 1927-1995 :Official photographs

Reference: PAColl-9589-5

Description: Photographs of Rowling visiting his Tasman electorate and other electorates in New Zealand. Includes photographs of a Gold Badge presentation. Quantity: 61 b&w original photographic print(s). 10 colour original photographic print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1974 - 1975

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[51 volumes of architectural plans]

By: Gabites, Alington & Edmondson (Firm)

Reference: E-928-f-005

Description: Includes details, joinery profiles, hose tower and furniture details. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Bound blue volume of photocopies, 297 x 210 mm.

Date: [ca 1968]

From: Kenneally, Joseph Mervyn, 1944- : Photographs of the Wellington region, mainly of Upper Hutt, Whitemans Valley, Khandallah and Karori

Reference: 1/2-106763-F

Description: Members of the Silversteam Fire Brigade standing outside the Silverstream Fire Station with a fire engine. Photographed are (L-R): M Day, G Young, J Paulin, L Stringer, M Langham, C Jones, J Cutfield, F Stringer and J Elworthy. Taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1968. Note on back states: Engine 1938 Ford V8. When Upper Hutt Fire Brigade had a new appliance the Silverstream UFB were [tended?] the Ford c 1968. Before that they had a Ford Model A which replaced the Dennis. UH Borough Council took the Dennis - put pneumatic tyres on it and used it for council duty. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative