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Stichbury, John Stannus, 1921-2003 : Papers
Date: 1943-1944, ca1980, 1984
By: Stichbury, John Stannus, 1921-2003
Reference: MS-Papers-4166
Description: The papers comprise a war diary, a short history of Lowry Bay and `Taumaru', and newspaper articles and cuttings Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Accompanied by biographical and bibliographical notes by the donor Stichbury grew up in Wellington and lived at `Taumaru', Lowry Bay after it was purchased by his family in 1936. In May 1943 he left New Zealand and saw action in Italy with the 6th Field Regiment. Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies)
Martin & Dyett (Firm) :Subdivisional plan of the Bell Estate, Lowry Bay [copy of ms map...
Date: 1936
By: Martin & Dyett (Firm); Gordon Harcourt Ltd
Reference: MapColl-832.4792gbbd/[1936?]/Acc.10181
Description: Cadastral and topographical map of the area adjacent to Lowry Bay. Includes numbered sections with acreages, some including sites of buildings, a homestead, tennis court, circular garden, line of sewer drain. Boundaries are marked, especially building line distances from roads. Includes tracks and drives, roads are named, and the Wellington to Eastbourne Road is decribed as a bitumen road. The Francis Bell Reserve with the approximate area of 120 acres, also one section to be retained by trustees, are marked. The section of C. W. D Bell includes a note stating that it is not for sale. Vegetation and some topographic features are described. Note on bottom right states: All distances and areas are subject to amendment by final survey now in progress Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, linen backed, scale [1:1 200], 50.5 x 50 cm.
Photographs from the Johnston and Blundell family albums
Date: 1905-1935
From: Ball, Jennifer, active 2003:Photographs relating to the Johnston and Bell families
Reference: PAColl-7815
Description: Photographs of Homewood, Karori, Wellington, and of Charles John Johnston, his family and their friends. There are also a number of images relating to Wanganui Collegiate School where C J Johnston's younest son, Octavius, went to school about 1906. Most of these are group photographs of the pupils, the school cadets and sports teams. Two show a rugby match between the Wanganui Collegiate first 15 and the Old Boys played during the Easter break, 1906. The photographs date from 1905 to 1908. The second album records the wedding of Caroline Margaret Featherston Johnston to Percy Warwick Blundell of the Evening Post (Wellington) newspaper family. This took place at "Taumaru", Lowry Bay, the home of Caroline Johnston's grandparents, Sir Francis and Lady Bell. The sequence of images shows the progress of the wedding from the bride and her father, Justice Harold Johnston, leaving the house to the guests at the reception. It provides a detailed view of that vanished institution; the "society wedding". The wedding took place on the 2nd of February 1935. Quantity: 48 b&w original negative(s). 54 photocopy/ies.
Photographs of Lowry Bay, Lower Hutt City
Date: 1907-1932
From: Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd, 1872-1960 : Photographs
Reference: PAColl-6972-5
Description: View of Lowry Bay taken in 1907; two views of Sir Francis Dillon Bell's house; two photographs of workers laying the water supply pipeline to Eastbourne in 1932; a portrait of Mrs Wood and her youngest daughter. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s).
Seddon, Beatrice 1890-1987 :Bell House in Lowry Bay, Wellington [1920s or 1930s?]
Date: 1920 - 1936
By: Seddon, Beatrice Anna, 1889-1987; Seddon, Mary Dorothea, 1924-2000
Reference: B-062-026
Description: Shows the house of Sir Francis & Lady Dillon Bell from garden entrance, presumably before the death of Sir Francis Dillon Bell in 1936 Other Titles - The drive up to the home of Sir Francis & Lady Bell's house in Lowry Bay, Wellington [inscribed on verso of work] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Beatrice Seddon; Verso - Additional title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on canvas 367 x 417 mm Provenance: By descent to artist's daughter, Mary Seddon, of Wadestown, Wellington.
Newspaper clippings re notable New Zealanders, early history, Kapiti Island, greenstone...
Date: 1933-1935
From: McDonnell, Alexander Francis, 1866-1938 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0151-37D
Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (32 pages). Physical Description: Mss and printed matter
Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell and Justice Department staff, Taumaru, Lowry Bay
Date: [ca 1926]
From: Falconer, Rose Mabel, fl 1983 :Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: PAColl-0339-11
Description: Group portrait of Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell and Justice Department staff at an afternoon reception at Taumaru, Lowry Bay, taken ca 1926 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.3 x 20 cm
Clere & Clere :Cottage at Lowry Bay for A J Luke Esq. 1935
Date: 1935
From: Luke, David Manly, 1926-2018 : Collection
By: Clere & Clere (Firm); Luke, Arthur James, -1954; Luke, David Manly, 1926-2018
Reference: Plans-84-0073
Description: Plan, elevation of all sides and section of a two-bedroomed cottage with stone chimney, later owned by Francis Dillon Bell Extended Title - David Luke collection Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour 306 x 445 mm Provenance: Donation: David M Luke, Wellington, 1984