Places

Date: [Circa 1900s to 1910s]

From: Clift, Charles William :Photographs relating to Clift family

Reference: PA1-o-103

Description: Clift family photographs, including views of Wellington, the Clift family home at 143 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn; four unidentified Wellington College Boy Scouts; views of the Wellington Botanic Gardens; and a number of views of the Wanganui Region. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album in brown card cover tied with cord, and embossed with pattern of flowers in a vase, 19 x 18.5 cm

Date: [1890s]

Reference: PA1-q-222

Description: Photographs relating to Herbert Spackman and his family and relatives, chiefly taken by him. Places include views of Wellington and bays, Eketahuna and the Wanganui district. Very few of the people shown are fully identified but are likely to be Harry Spackman’s: mother (Eliza Spackman, nee Hawkings), father (Henry Spackman), brother, mother-in-law (Mrs Coxall, mother of Harry’s first wife Amy), and father-in-law (Mr Parnell, father of Fanny Parnell, Harry's second wife). Several houses are shown, including: ‘Rangiuru’, located at 63 Hutt Road, Petone, Wellington; House of Eketahuna farmer David S Lowe; House of David S Lowe’s brother Henry (‘Harry’) Goold Spackman in Wanganui, both interior and exterior, ‘Ben Venuto’ situated at 59 Rintoul Street and house of Henry (‘Harry’) Goold Spackman in Wellington, both interior and exterior views. Herbert Spackman's nephew Roy Spackman (Clement Roy) attended Wanganui Collegiate School, and there are several views of the chapel (interior and exterior) and the music room. There is one group portrait of Wanganui Collegiate School boys (p 41). Source of descriptive information - Information sourced from various places including the internet, and a family member. Two articles on Henry and Herbert Spackman both before they left England, and in New Zealand can be found at www.bris.ac.uk/music/CHOMBEC/chombec-news-1.pdf and www.bris.ac.uk/music/CHOMBEC/chombec-news-4.pdf Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark red cover, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 29 x 24 cm

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PA5-0153

Description: Aramoho, Wanganui, New Zealand, taken ca 1910-1913 by Muir and Moodie Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 88 x 139 mm

Date: [Between 1923 and 1928]

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

Reference: Pan-2021-F

Description: Panoramic view showing a single-storeyed wooden house on the far left with a road running past on the right alongside the Whanganui River. A gravel drive leads up to the house on the far left. A large lawn in the centre, and a man standing with a gardening implement by a flower bed in the centre. Trees along the far side of the section. Boats and boatsheds are visible on the far side of the river with rows of houses on the ridge above. Bench seat across the road facing the river. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Source of descriptive information - Description and location from other images in R P Moore's own numerical sequence which were taken at Aramoho Relationship complexity - See also 1/2-134200-F Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 114.0 cm

Date: 1921

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbooks]

Reference: E-292-q-5-004

Description: View of the bridge which crosses the Whanganui River at Aramoho, looking upstream with Mt Ruapehu in the far distance. Houses can be seen on the riverbanks. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 140 x 215 mm

Date: 1894

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: B-116-014

Description: Shows a stretch of the Whanganui River at Aramoho, with a large two-storeyed house amongst trees and lawn on the far side. The house is probably Sedgebrook (or Sedge Brook) Grange. Two girls walk along a riverside path in the foreground, and on the river six adults and one or two children pass by in a rowboat, near a flight of wooden steps leading down to the river. Probably shows Sedgebrook Grange, the house of Major John Nixon. The original Sedgebrook Grange burned down and was rebuilt in 1882 Other Titles - Aramoho, Whanganui Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C Aubrey / 1894 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 270 x 440 mm. Provenance: Previously purchased by the vendor in New Zealand in the 1970s or early 1980s (information from International Art Centre)