Places

Date: 1908-2008

By: Chilton Saint James (School : Lower Hutt, N.Z.)

Reference: ATL-Group-00845

Description: Includes school magazines hand-produced by pupils of Chilton House and Chilton St James School; Minute book for directors of Hutt Girls' School, for shareholders of company and minutes of special meeting and report of advisory committee (1923) (MSY-4099) School register for Chilton St James School, 1917-1973 (MSY-2456) Recordings of Chilton St James Choir and parts of service (1953-1958; 1962-1974) Reminiscences of former pupils and staff Source of title - Supplied In 1897 Chilton House School, a private boarding and day school for girls, was founded on The Terrace, Wellington. In 1918 Hutt Girls' School Ltd established an Anglican private school for girls, Chilton St James School, in Lower Hutt. When the Chilton House School closed in 1930, Chilton St James School purchased their goodwill, and incorporating the name into the school. Quantity: 16 volume(s). 10 12" disc(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 5" reel(s). 1 folder(s). 1 10" disc(s). 1 7" disc(s). 1 7" reel(s). 0.41 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Originally the records were collected by the Chilton Historical Trust which had been set up to administer the archives of Chilton House and Chilton St James Schools. This function has been passed to the Chilton St James School archives.

Date: ca 1890s

Reference: PAColl-7486

Description: Three views of Sir William Fitzherbert's house in Lower Hutt. Photographer unidentified. Described on the reverse of the file prints as copy negatives from prints in the "small red album". Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-005053 to 005055 Quantity: 3 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1860s to 1880s

Reference: PAColl-3766

Description: Early farms and settlements, portraits of individual homes and settlers, groups of maori, landscapes, timber industry and land clearance, view of Te Aro flat Arrangement: 1/2-83904-F to 1/2-83930-F Quantity: 28 b&w copy photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: 1852

By: Pinnager, T W, active 1852; Wellington Provincial Survey Office

Reference: MapColl-832.4794gmbd/1852/Acc.37636

Description: Surveying maps of roads in the Lower Hutt area, include some surveying annotations. Includes parts of two rivers, one of which is the Hutt River, both of which are un-named. Roads and sites of buildings are marked. The section of George Augustus Selwyn includes the site of a spired English church. A hedge, being the boundary line of Mr Hare, is marked. Signature underneath title: T.W. Pinnager, Sept. 1852 Notes on the original are: 41/11 Plan, Sept 1852. The stamp of Provincial Survey Office, Wellington is stamped on top right corner. Lower Hutt country sheet No. 2 is handwritten on top right corner C 17 is stamped above the title and 16 is stamped in the margin Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale [1:1 584], 41 x 46.7 cm. on sheet 45.5 x 54.7 cm.

Date: [188-?-190-?]

By: Ferguson, A P (Mrs), active 1967

Reference: PAColl-0045

Description: Photographs of military forces, Wellington and members of the Wellington Kennel Club, taken ca 1880s-1900. Photographs of members of B, D and F Battery of an artillery regiment taken at the Military Tournament at Hutt Race Course on 9th November 1891. They are standing or kneeling with their swords and their insignia can be seen on their arms. Portrait of the 1st New Zealand Contingent, taken November 1899 by Feeney Photo. Two men in naval uniform and one possibly in a mounted rifles uniform outside a tent ca 1890s. The names given are Campbell and Bell (naval) and Moorhouse. Men of an artillery regiment at the Military Tournament at Hutt Race Course in 1891 next to a wheeled gun. The names given are: Brown, Grise(?), Perrin, Burn, Tuckey, Howe, Tineman(?), Johnston, Jeffreys. The Education Board Offices on Mercer Street of which the Technical School occupied the second storey ca 1889 with a number of people in the yard outside. View along looking south along Lambton Quay with shops on the right including E Barber. House on sub-division 29-31 in Northland, Wellington ca 1878 View of the Wellington Club on The Terrace. Photograph of Government House, taken 1890 Photograph of NZ Loan & Mercantile Agency, Wellington Photograph of Anglican Cathedral, Christchurch Photograph of Cook & Co, land agents, Wellington Source of title - Title supplied by Library For other photographs of artillery regiments at the Military Tournament see PAColl-0731 Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1848-1986

By: Laings Road Methodist Church (Lower Hutt, N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Group-0360

Description: Includes minute books; marriage and baptismal registers; cradle and membership rolls; Ladies Guild minutes; Women's Fellowship, Missionary Auxiliary, Sunday School records; Naenae and Epuni Church and Sunday School records; financial records; and correspondence Publication - On our way : the first 150 years of the Methodist Church in Lower Hutt (Lower Hutt: Laings Road Methodist Church in association with Methodist Publishing, [1989] Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - DVD of demolition of church in 2002 deposited with Oral History Quantity: 6 box(es) (Some items on at folder level). 65 volume(s). 4.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: Collection taken as a whole into Manuscript, transfers made from here - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Architectural drawings.

Date: 1890-1904

From: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Wellington Diocese : Central and parish records

Reference: MSY-1288

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Burton Bros

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-34-21

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1863-1912

By: Riddiford family

Reference: MS-Papers-1392

Description: Personal and station diaries; include diaries of E J Riddiford, 1878-1907, recording personal and business interests; Lionel Riddiford's diary, 1903, at Wanganui Collegiate; station diaries of Te Awaiti, 1863-1907, kept by E J Riddiford, R Riddiford, various managers; diaries for Longburn and Tablelands stations. Stock records and account books for Te Awaiti and Tablelands Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 131 folder(s). 2 volume(s). 0.66 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (and photocopies) Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1843

Reference: Plans-80-1092

Description: Shows elevation and ordinary level of water Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - In pencil: Proposal no 2 Hutt Bridge 1843 never built. L Hall Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on linen backed paper

Date: 1847

Reference: A-023-015

Description: Also shows Molesworth's windmill and Aglionby Arms in position to which it was moved some time in 1850's. Fort Richmond had been pulled down by 1860. Formerly attributed to William Swainson; attribution is now based on close similiarity to privately owned signed work, and on George Swainson's known use of white chalk highlights. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, wash and white chalk, 170 x 240 mm

Date: 1861-1870

By: Herring, Margaret, 1838-

Reference: MS-Papers-6902

Description: Mainly letters to family in England from Maggie describing the voyage out on the `Sir George Pollock' in 1861 to Nelson, and her time in New Zealand to 1870. The letters contain references to Bishop and Mrs Hobhouse, Bishop and Mrs Abraham, Rev Thatcher and Richard Barton of Upper Hutt where her husband Rev John Herring was a clergyman until 1870. Accompanying material - Letter from Mr Herring to Rev Oppenheim of St James' Church, Lower Hutt re provenance and family history Transcripts made from poor photocopied typed transcripts held by Mr Herring's cousin living in Perth in 1972, and are not as full as the copy of originals at qMS Relationship complexity - Photocopy of original letters at qMS-0952. The transcripts are not as full as the originals Quantity: 1 folder(s) (20 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcripts (photocopied) Provenance: The donor is the great grandson of Margaret Herring

Date: [ca 1900-1950s]

From: Rogers, Charles Marsden, 1892-1964 :Photographs

By: Sayers, Alan John, 1915-

Reference: PAColl-7829-1

Description: Photographs of scenes of Wellington and other parts of New Zealand, and images for advertisements. Many of the photographs were taken by Charles Marsden Rogers, but there are also photographs taken by other photographers. Quantity: 58 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-044/046

Description: Shows views in the Hutt Valley, Wellington and Wairarapa. At the top, a view looking west along Palliser Bayl, with Hokorewa Pa visible on the flat land near the coast in the distance, at the mouth of the Ruamahanga River. In the centre a view from the hills above Brooklyn and Ohiro Valley, looking west towards the harbour entrance. A few sheep are grazing in the foreground. Mount Victoria, Evans Bay and Lyall Bay can be seen. At the bottom, the house of William Swainson, with other buildings around it and trees on both sides. Three cows grazing in the foreground. Other Titles - William Swainson Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: Between 1880 and 1889

Reference: 1/4-002759-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: film negatives

Date: ca 1891-1901

Reference: PAColl-0731

Description: Photographs of a military parade on Lambton Quay as part of the visit by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York consisting of teams of eight horses pulling small carriages on their way to the Battery with spectators lining the street; No.3 Gun Detachment at a military tournament in November 1891 at Hutt Race Course standing with their gun the participants being Sgt Carter, Br Daniels, Gunners Brown, Petrie, Curtis, Bott, Renwick, Raynor, and Quilice(?); No.1 (Gun Detachment?) with their gun, standing next to a tent in Miramar in 1898 the participants being Gibson, Coombes, Coleman, Pettiecuck(?), Lyon, Boyes, Fraser, Feeney, Hill, Brown, Spence, Courtney, and Truman; and a large group of men possibly of D battery of Wellington militia holding poles with paddles at the end with circles painted on them (markers). Some of the men are in uniform or partial uniform and there are targets behind them. Photographer(s) unidentified. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1843

Reference: Plans-80-1091

Description: Shows elevation and level of water Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - In pencil: Proposal for first Bridge at Hutt 1843. Not executed. L Hall Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on linen backed paper

Date: 1843

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-035-017

Description: A clearing amongst tall native trees, with a the house of George Compton in the background, surrounded by a low fence, the whole viewed through a gap between the trunks of two large trees. There is a fallen tree trunk in the centre with a man seated on the trunk, his back to the viewer and staff in his hand. Note on verso: Compton's cottage on Daniel's Island, River Hutt in 1843. (The whole cut down and the buildings destroyed - 1847). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. S. 1843-54. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 165 x 224 mm

Date: 1952, 1960s

Reference: MS-Papers-7725

Description: Transcripts of talks given by Mrs Galbraith, Mayor Annie Huggan and `Wally Hirsch's grandfather', a market gardener, to Form II students at Wilford School in 1961 regarding the history of the Hutt Valley. Also the reminiscences of E J (Ted) Ridler, written in 1952, and typescript notes `From village to town' and `The first school', written circa 1960s regarding Petone history. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: 1847

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Anson family

Reference: A-188-055

Description: Right profile view of cow standing in front of haystack, on Alfred Ludlam's farm, Lower Hutt; identified by artist as being the Devon breed. Title from pencil inscription at bottom of image. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - W Swainson / 14 June 1847; Recto - beneath image - True Devon Cow / Ludlams. (River Hutt NZeald) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 200 x 153 mm, on card 308 x 240 mm. Provenance: Anson Family collection.