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Date: 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/107/07-F

Description: Two men paddle in on surfboards at the Dominion lifesaving championships at Lyall Bay in Wellington, photographed in 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: 1932

By: Bartleet, Ellen Wintrup, 1896-

Reference: A-238-011

Description: Looking south from the beach at Lyall Bay towards the rocky foreshore with the South Island visible in the distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 180 x 280 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs R.B. Bartleet, Auckland 1972

Date: 2001 - 2002

By: Lyall Bay Reef Charitable Trust

Reference: Eph-A-RECREATION-2002-01

Description: Explains the reasons for wanting a reef, where it would be best positioned, how constructed, and a form to complete when sending donations to the Trust. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on two sides of folded pamphlet.. Physical Description: Photolithographs on folded sheet, 211 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated in March 2002.

Date: 1910

By: Hackworth, James Brooks, 1853-1933; Hackworth, Ethel Winifred, 1888-1975

Reference: A-075-005-1

Description: The Moa Point area of Lyall Bay, at the shoreline, with a rocky reef and outcrop, looking towards the west side of the bay, with Mount Tapuaenuku and the South Island visible in the distance Other Titles - Lyall Bay Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 137 x 246 mm

Date: 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/107/06-F

Description: A `victim' is carried in from the surf at the Dominion lifesaving championships at Lyall Bay in Wellington, photographed in 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: 1922 - 1923

By: City Printing Company; Wright & Carman Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-REAL-ESTATE-1922-01

Description: Shows a view of Lyall Bay. Accompany sheets promote the area as a place to live, and describe the marked growth in the suburb in the last 13 years. Prices of each section are listed, and it is implied that values will rise when the new tunnel is completed. Other Titles - Stellin Estate Date confirmed in Evening post, for 13 December 1922, property pages. The auction of the property in 72 section allotments was conducted by J H Bethune & Co. on 14 December 1922 at 2.30 pm. The vendor was Mr James Stellin. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on 3 sheets, each 250 x 314 mm. (Second sheet was originally larger)

Date: 1860 - 1880

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-084-002

Description: Shows Evans Bay and Lyall Bay looking south-southeast from Hataitai. The part of Evans Bay which is visible is probably all reclaimed land now (1999), and two hills have been removed for the airport. Other Titles - Lyall Bay Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 124 x 177 mm.

Date: 1925 - 1926

From: [Ephemera relating to carnivals and celebrations in New Zealand. 1920-1929]

By: Maranui Surf and Life Saving Club

Reference: Eph-A-CARNIVAL-1925-01

Description: Includes programme details for the "Miss New Zealand, 1925-1926" National Bathing Beauty Contest" (controlled by the Lyall Bay Surf and Life Saving Club). Boxing Day, December 26th, at 2 pm. 12 contestants are listed. Other events were children's fancy dress competitions, baby shows, sand modelling contests, children's races, side shows. The final of the bathing beauty contest was on 2nd January 1926. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 20 pages, each 210 x 142 mm. Transfers: Transferred from MS-Group-1139 in 2002. Transferred from Manuscripts and Archives in 2002 (MS-Group-1139).

Date: 1932

By: Bartleet, Ellen Wintrup, 1896-

Reference: A-238-012

Description: Looking from the eastern end of Lyall Bay towards Wellington Harbour entrance, rocky outcrops and a steamer leaving the Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in pencil; also E.W. Bartleet, in pencil, lower right Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 220 x 290 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs R.B. Bartleet, Auckland 1972

Date: ca 1900-1915

Reference: PAColl-7391

Description: Two photographs of the view across Wellington Harbour from near Pencarrow Head to Seatoun and Point Dorset; three photographs of the rocks and beaches around Point Dorset and The Pinnacles; people on the beach and in the sea at Lyall Bay; two men and a woman amongst the pine trees in Newtown Park; a woman in the Wellington Botanic Gardens with Glenmore Street behind her; three views looking down on the houses around Oriental Bay; next to the harbour on Oriental Bay showing the tram lines; the convalescent home on Mount Victoria above Oriental Bay; horses grazing with Evans Bay and the Miramar peninsula in the background; the SS Hawera and SS Haupiri in the patent slip at Evans Bay; the patent slip and the Union Steam Ship Company laundry at Evans Bay; a man and a woman on a path through the bush at Days Bay; looking over Roseneath towards Somes Island; and a yacht sailing at sunset near Pencarrow Head. Photographer unidentified. All the negatives have similar numbering and lettering on the reverse. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003942 to 003961, 003963 to 003964, and 003981 to 003985. 1/2-003982 is missing and has been entered as a copy negative to a print at PAColl-7081-53. Other negatives have been entered as child records of this collection. Quantity: 27 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1898

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: B-072-003

Description: View from the east end of Lyall Bay looking along the beachline towards Lyall Bay suburb and Kilbirnie Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 285 x 460 mm

Date: 1940 - 1944

Reference: Eph-A-LIFESAVING-1940/1944

Description: Includes: 1940: New Zealand Surf Life-Saving Association. National Surf Championships, Lyall Bay Beach, February 16th, 17th & 18th 1940. Official programme (2 copies) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying around 215 x 140 mm. Provenance: Some programmes donated by Surf Lifesaving New Zealand, in 2012. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-2134 and the Photographic Archive..

Date: 1920 - 1896

By: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937; Sturtevant, Ella Mary, -1969

Reference: C-071-003

Description: Shows a view across Lyall Bay to the group of rocks at Wellington Heads, with Pencarrow Head beyond. There are low sand dunes in the foreground. Described on acquisition as a view from Houghton Bay Inscriptions: bottom right - Signed: G.N.Sturtevant Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 315 x 490 mm, mounted on thick card, 330 x 500 mm.

Date: 1890 - 1896

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953; Crompton-Smith, Elsie Marian, 1901-1996

Reference: G-577

Description: View from the west end of Lyall Bay, looking along the beachline towards Strathmore. A few figures can be seen on the beach in the distance Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on cardboard 255 x 380 mm Provenance: By family descent to the artist's daughter, Miss Elsie Crompton-Smith.

Date: 18 December 1989

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Round, Mark, active 1991

Reference: EP/1989/4665

Description: Wilson Applegarth watches southerly winds push Becky McKerras backwards, Lyall Bay, Wellington. Applegarth and McKerras are both holding onto umbrellas. Photographed 18 December 1989 by Evening Post staff photographer Mark Round. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1916

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948

Reference: A-157-013

Description: Shows group of people on a beach possibly at Island Bay, but more probably at Lyall Bay or Breaker Bay looking across Cook Strait. Two boats drawn up on shore Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 215 x 259 mm

Date: 1910

By: Hackworth, James Brooks, 1853-1933; Hackworth, Ethel Winifred, 1888-1975

Reference: A-075-003

Description: View from Houghton Bay, looking towards Lyall Bay and the Wellington Harbour entrance, with a coach and horses crossing a waterlogged patch on a makeshift road at the water's edge. A steamer is entering the harbour. A rocky reef runs out to sea and the road is bounded by cliffs on the left. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 198 x 248 mm

Date: 1931 - 1939

From: Wickham, Charles, 1853-1940s :Family album. Uncle Charlie's unfinished drawings. [1926-1941].

Reference: E-563-q-21

Description: Shows a view of Lyall Bay as it was before the airport was built. There is a two-storeyed house in the left foreground, and the houses of Lyall Bay are sugguested below. The shape of the bay is made more circular than in reality. Pencarrow Head is seen in the left distance. Other Titles - Lyall Bay from Melrose Wellington Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) inserted into slits in page of album.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 182 x 250 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Mr Thomas H Hudson of England in 1997.

Date: 1939

From: Wickham, Charles, 1853-1940s :Family album. Uncle Charlie's unfinished drawings. [1926-1941].

Reference: E-563-q-20

Description: Shows a view of Lyall Bay from the coast road around to Houghton Bay. In the foreground is the rocky shoreline, some Lyall Bay housing, and the exhibition buildings in the centre distance. In the right foreground is a beached whale lying in shallow water beside the rocks. The houses of Kilbirnie Heights or Hataitai are shown at the top left. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) inserted into slits in page of album.. Physical Description: Pen and watercolour, 192 x 246 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Mr Thomas H Hudson of England in 1997.

Date: 1904-1944

By: Paterson, Robert Eric, active 1995

Reference: PAColl-4868

Description: Eric George Laing Patterson. As a young man Eric was a member of the Lyall Bay Surf Club. He was a champion swimmer who in 1920 held the New Zealand record for swimming 100 yards in 60 seconds. At about the same date he was nominated as a New Zealand rep. for the Olympic Games. He was a master of and one of the first New Zealanders ot use the six beat crawl swimming style. As an adult he worked as an accountant with Inland Revenue, Wellington, eventually becoming chief accountant. He retired from his job in 1957. Eric married Florence Ivy Sunnex on the first of August 1928. Eric had a brother Harold and a sister Maisie. There are also some photographs of Florence Sunnex's family, the Wellington Zoo, the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition and of members of the Wellington Football Club in the early 1920s Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).