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Date: Aug 2001

From: Rhodes, Valerie June, 1932- : Spencer and Rhodes family histories

Reference: MSX-8196

Description: Reminiscence of this early years growing up in Mount Victoria, Wellington, and teenage years spent in Lyall Bay, Wellington. Describes the family homes at Derby Street and Kent Terrace, Mount Victoria; holidays at Hihitahi; childhood entertainment; war years and visit of the Pamir; hobbies (reading, model-making); years at Clyde Quay School (includes photo of Std 1 taken in 1939) and time spent at Otaki Health Camp. Move to Queens Drive, Lyall Bay and years at Wellington College. Discusses first years of his working life and ends with his move to Upper Hutt as an optometrist with Cocks & Newall, and meeting his wife Valerie Spencer in 1954. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: Surname index at back.

Date: 7 Sep 2009 - 07 Sep 2009

From: From memory oral history project

By: Beams, Peter Derek, 1929-2010

Reference: OHInt-0981-05

Description: Interview with Peter Beams, born in Clapham, London in 1929. Talks about his family background, early life and schooling in Glasgow and weekends at Loch Lomond. Recalls his father built an Anderson air raid shelter in their back garden. Comments on being evacuated to New Zealand with his two older brothers in 1940, and not bringing any personal items with them. Refers to sailing on the SS Ruahine and suffering from sea sickness. Recalls the ship being visited in Wellington by prime minister Peter Fraser. Talks about being taken with his brothers to a magnificant house (Tudor House) in Park Road, Belmont to stay with George and Ethel Seers. Mentions the history of the house which was owned by General Motors at the time. Describes their accomodation and mentions the cook Betty Verity and parlour maid Jean Hyde. Talks about food, eating mostly in the servants' quarters, tennis, billiards, entertainment and discipline. Comments on spending a lot of time walking the hills, walking the dog and playing war games with friends. Refers to being taught to wait on table. Reflects that he and his brothers were fairly self-sufficient because they were not used to closeness in their family. Refers to attending Hutt Central School and later Nelson College, and talks about life there as a boarder. Mentions that he was not really concerned with news of the war but kept up with it. Recalls hearing of Pearl Harbour, submarine sightings around New Zealand, and the Americans having ammunition dumps in the Western Hutt Hills. Recalls the 1942 earthquake. Comments that he was required to return to Britain at the end of the war but having "nowhere to go home for". Refers to sailing with one brother on the SS Rangitata via the Suez Canal and being met by their father who was a stranger to them. Comments that their parents were separated and he met his mother later. Refers to working on a farm until he was called up for National Service in 1947. Comments on serving in Egypt and Malaya, being demobbed in Sydney and returning to New Zealand in 1950 after recovering from malaria. Talks about going back to live with the Seers whom he had kept in contact with. Discusses working for Wright Stephenson & Co (stock and station agents) and his subsequent career including working at General Motors and finally starting his own sign company. Mentions marrying his wife Mona Cadwallader in 1953 and building their house. Refers to meeting his mother and brother Tony in England in 1985, and also meeting his father again once they located him. Comments on a memoir he was writing about his own experiences. Reflects being grateful for the experiences and opportunities he has had that would not otherwise have been available to him, but regrets the lack of a family life when young. Accompanying material - Partial memoir by Peter Beams written for his children, covering his life up to the 1970s (OHDL-001383) Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001380 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital photograph(s) - Tiff file. 1 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 9 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s) - Tiff files. 1 Electronic document(s) - word document (partial memoir). 1 interview(s). 3.47 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7242. Search dates: 1929 - 1939 - 2009 - 1945

Date: 2001-2002 - 14 May 2002 - 27 Nov 2001

By: Leniston, Elizabeth Theresa, 1926-2017; Leniston, Martin John, 1925-; Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-

Reference: OHColl-0607

Description: Interviews with Elizabeth (Betty) Leniston and Martin John (Johnny) Leniston. Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Accompanying material - E-mails between Margaret Leniston and Judith Fyfe, sprigs of dried lavender, notes from preliminary interview Quantity: 6 C60 cassette(s). 2 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstracts. 2 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Search dates: 1925 - 2002

Date: 27-30 August 2001 - 27 Aug 2001 - 30 Aug 2001

By: Lawler, Cicely Margaret, 1930-; West, Maureen Rosalind, active 2002

Reference: OHColl-0637/1

Description: Cicely Margaret Lawler was born in Whitburn, County Durham, England in 1930. Talks about being a child of divorced parents, growing up with her father, an estate manager in Highcroft. Mentions being evacuated during World War II; rationing, and transport during the war. Mentions father's remarriage, her stepmother Dora, and stepbrothers. Mentions her mother Hilda, who worked in the ambulance service during the war. Mentions her sister dying of whooping cough. Talks about her education, her goal to become an obstetrician, and attending University of Durham Medical School. Talks about medical training and work as a house surgeon and registrar in the 1950's, working shifts of up to 36 hours. Mentions hospital lifestyle, parties, National Health Service, attitudes of male doctors to women. Describes the difficulties involved, as an English protestant, in marrying her Irish catholic husband, Derry Lawler, whom she met in 1956-7. Talks about resistance from family and the Catholic Church. Mentions difficulty with the instruction course on marriage to a catholic. Talks about working part-time as a polio vaccinator, describes feelings about giving up work to raise five children. Describes emigrating to New Zealand, by ship, while pregnant. Compares household appliances in England and New Zealand in the 1960's. Talks about her children, and her husband's career as an anaesthetist in Auckland. Describes having single mothers in her home, via an arrangement with Presbyterian Social Services; mentions Bethany Hospital. Talks about journeys back to England and Ireland, family visits, her mother-in-law, and what she misses about England. Mentions New Zealand's standard of living, attitudes to sport, politics, Maori, immigrants. Talks about friends, housekeeping and housework, her chronic back problem, feelings towards Catholic Church and influence of religion on her life. Mentions husband's illness and death. Talks about her voluntary work with Care and Craft group, and the Mater Hospital, since the 1970's. Interviewer(s) - Maureen West Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-10827 - 10833 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 6.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3829. Search dates: 1939 - 1950 - 1945 - 2000

Date: 1968-1994, [ca 1994-2004]

By: St. Oswald Union Church

Reference: PAColl-10008

Description: Photographs relating to St Oswald Union Parish in Newlands, Wellington, chiefly taken circa 2002 by unidentified photographers. Few items are identified but most relate to gatherings in the church and church hall. Events covered include a community forum 'Overcoming Violence Towards Children' with Children's Commissioner Roger McClay, church services, and particularly events involving children, some of whom are identified. One photograph shows a christening and a series depicts a nativity play. Also contains six images (some panoramas) of the church and hall exterior, four of the Methodist monument in Te Aro Park (also known as Pigeon Park), and one of an applique hanging in the church that includes the words 'from Maori Mission to Te Aka Puaho'. Also three photographs show former ministers at the church: Jack Doig (1968-1975), Glen Livingstone (1989-1993), and Barry Jones (1994). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 55 colour original photographic print(s). 6 digital print(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler and digital prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2090: St Oswald Union Parish - Records.

Date: [ca 1930]-2003

From: Crook, Gordon, 1921-2011: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9986-2

Description: Includes:- Group photograph of children dressed to perform "Alice in Wonderland" in grounds of Bishop's Palace, Chichester, England. Includes Gordon Crook. Ca 1930. Wedding group (Dave's wedding), 1950s. Gordon's mother and a group of men, 1950s. Colin Barns and bride, 1960s. Group of snapshots of Gordon's mother, her husband, and Gordon with his mother, ca 1960. Group of snapshots of Gordon Crook and another man in front of a thatched cottage, England, 1960s. Gordon Crook's passport photograph, ca 1971. Three photographs of Gordon Crook on a Wairarapa beach, New Zealand, clad in kelp, 1972. Photographs of Gordon Crook at 62 Mortimer Terrace, Wellington, 1975. Unidentified woman beside a bush of old roses, 1970s. Bill Belcher in England. Contact sheet of cottage and surrounding woodland. Possibly Gordon's brother Kenneth's house. Photographs of friends in Spain, Teheran, Morocco, England and New Zealand, 1960s-2003. Gordon Crook, Ron [Barber?] and child, Christmas at 119 Aro Street, Wellington. Linda and Malcolm Cocks, England. At Linda Cocks birthday party. Friends in London including Linda and Malcolm Cocks and a woman named Kay, 1970s-early 1980s. Golden Jubilee parade, London 1977. Gordon Crook's cottage at Great Yeldam, England, 1980. Floods, Chichester, England, January 1994. Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s). 61 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1999 - 2001

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Christchurch star (Newspaper : 1958- )

Reference: A-316-142/160

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. Unemployed fathers as role models to their sons, the pracitical side of genetic modification, 20th century sees out-of-control war, violence and death, United States aims to curb people's access to guns, election year sees 32,000 more operations being done, study shows teenages think about girls approx. every three minutes, marriages end in divorce due to the Rugby World Cup, parents supervise their children to school, move to replace cigarettes with cannabis, supermarkets selling to underage drinkers, kiwi dollar plummets to record low, family politics of winning, cricket bribery revealed, Black Caps perform poorly in cricket, children's language shocks, 600 Air Force staff made redundant, new complications of professional rugby, moves to ban children from movies that portray smoking, travellers face uncertain choice of destinations following world terrorist attacks. Original drawings for A-316-144, -152, -156 and -160 in separate folder and individually catalogued Quantity: 15 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 1999, 2002-2003

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000338

Description: Photographs relating to children. Includes children in playgrounds, with face paint, surrounded by bubbles, and eating ice blocks. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "kids" Quantity: 6 digital photograph(s).

Date: [ca 1958]-2006

From: Crook, Gordon, 1921-2011: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9986-4

Description: Includes:- Art work by Gordon Crook, 1950s. Hanging mural by Gordon Crook for Karori Post Office after removal to Teachers Training College. Hall of the New Zealand Chancery building, Washington DC showing banners designed by Gordon Crook, 1979. Proof sheets of Gordon Crook at work photographed by Julia Brooke-White, 2002. Photographs of Gordon Crook and friends, New Zealand, 1990s-2000s. "Fallen Angel" a tableau box by Gordon Crook. Tapestry weaving in progress. Brightly patterned woolen garments at the Chelsea Crafts Fair, London, 1982. Fabric art works by Brenda Ellis, 1998. Gordon Crook's retrospective exhibition at the Wellington City Art Gallery, 1993. Fabric art work by Gordon Crook (this relates to work in "Apocolypse" exhibition, September 2002). Art work in "Apocolypse" exhibition, Idiom Studio, Wellington, 4-22 September, 2002. Gordon Crook's exhibition "Inhabiting the Circle" at Ron Barber's gallery, Aro Street, Wellington, 2006. Gordon Crook's 80th birthday party at Val and Mark Winter's place, 2001. Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). 123 colour original photographic print(s).