Places

Date: 1900 - 1924

By: Beere & Seddon (Firm); Beere, Wynford Ormsby, 1873-1964; Daniel, Charles L, active 1900s; Greenish, Frank Edgar, active 1910s-1940s; Beere, Douglas Jocelyn, 1913-2001

Reference: Plans-81-0694/0705

Description: 81-694 = Beere & Seddon. Proposed right of way, Hawkestone / Hill Street, 1 pencil, ink & watercolour; 81-695 = W. O. Beere. Front elevation of Lower Hutt Town Hall, 1906? 1 blueprint; 81-696 = Beere & Seddon? Plans for a winch or lift system - 1 ink; 81-697 = Beere & Seddon? Proposed residence for Mr A. J. Keaney, Hankey St, Wellington - 1 diazo print; 81-698 = F. E. Greenish. Proposed house in Adelaide Road for Herbert Hill estate - 1 blueprint; 81-699 = Beere & Seddon. Design for a house at Kelburn for W. McLeod Esq - 1 diazo print; 81-700 Beere & Seddon or C. L. Daniel? Proposed villa [with Marseille tiles and a dragon finial, ca 1900] - 1 ink & watercolour; 81-710 = W. O. Beere. Alterations & additions to cottage for R. B. Ross Esq - 1 ink; 81-701/703 = F. E. Walton. Residence, Roxburgh Street, Wellington for J. W. Martin Esq, 1924 - 2 diazo prints; 81-704/705 = C. L. Daniel (Feilding). Proposed new residence for D. Younger Esqre, Cinder Hill, Makino. 1 watercolour over diazo, 1 diazo print. Beere and Greenish were an architectural firm in Wellington around 1914. By 1924 Frank Greenish was practising on his own. Quantity: 12 plan(s). Physical Description: Various media, including ink & watercolour, diazo prints and blueprints, sizes vary

Date: 1920 - 1930

By: Beere, Wynford Ormsby, 1873-1964; Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Jo/[ca.1925]/Acc.14366

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map of subdivision 5, Lots 1-46, bounded by part of Kensington Street, Horokiwi Road and Glanmire Road, Johnsonville and Newlands area, Wellington. Some dwellings and a church are marked. Other Titles - Plan of subdivision number 5, Johnsonville, being part of Section 12, Porirua, Block 12, Belmont Survey District Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Blueprint, covered with tissue paper, scale indeterminable, 39.5 x 64.5 cm

Date: 1920 - 1922

By: Natusch, Charles Tilleard, 1859-1951; Natusch & Sons (Firm); Beere, Wynford Ormsby, 1873-1964

Reference: Plans-80-0709/0711

Description: Includes a sheet of ink and watercolour elevation and section; and two pencil sheets, one showing a floor plan, and the other showing two different elevations, one for a two-storey building and the other a two-storey building with bedroom accommodation in the roof space. The Mason's Gardens scheme may have been under the supervision of Keene & Reid Note on old accession sheet says that Mr W Beere, the donor's husband, surveyed Mason's Gardens about 1920 when it was subdivided. It was sold in 1922. Other Titles - Taita Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Keene & Reid / Masons Gardens scheme Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings and ink & watercolour on sheets, approximately 505 x 680 mm

Date: 1905

By: Beere, Wynford Ormsby, 1873-1964; Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Is/ca1905/Acc.14429

Description: A base cadastral map of Island Bay between Queen's Drive and The Esplanade, Selwyn, Jackson, Dover streets, the city boundary, the town belt, Lea and Rhone streets to Severn Street. Includes the proposed electric tramway route and sections for sale are marked. Named features include Baylis Proposed Wharf, Island Bay Hotel, properties of J. Reid Esq., R. Keene Esq., English Church, Public School, Presbyterian Church, Mr. Rowson's residence . Sections are numbered, some include boundary measurements. Streets are named and sites of some houses are marked. Two illustrations of Island Bay are printed on the top right and left of the map. The first shows the harbour taken from the sections for sale, while the second picture is a general view of Island Bay and includes some houses and fences. Annotations to the base map include highlighted subdivisions, some are marked 'Sold', include values in pounds sterling or boundary measurements. Additional numbered subdivisions are pencilled in between Adelaide Road and Clyde Street and include boundary measurements and sites of some houses. Some streets have been re-named. Knoll Street was crossed out, Tyne Street, was pencilled in, but Knoll Street remains and Brook Street was re-named Tyne Street. Shannon Street became Tiber Street. Milne Terrace and Cam Street have their names added, as has Moselle Street, the latter including a note referring to adjoining sections and District Plan No. 1199. The second map is a copy with ms annotations and measures 17.6 x 19.6 cm. and is mounted on the top left corner. It includes sixteen numbered sections with boundary measurements, adjoining Knoll Street, now known as Tyne Street, and Milne Terrace. The annotations are of values in pounds sterling The first manuscript map is mounted top centre, is a triangular map mounted adjacent to Severn Street. Thirteen numbered sections, with boundary measurements are shown, some marked as 'Sold' with values in pounds sterling, adjacent to Clutie Road. The second manuscript map is mounted top centre right and measures 21.1 x 26.1 cm. Includes numbered sections between The Parade and Derwent Street. One subdivision is marked Baylis Kiosk. The sea beach is marked. Names listed alongside the map refer to subdivisions 481/2/3/4 - Kingdom, Pilcher, Venables, E. C. Peers, H. Field, Barber, Butcher. Clutie Road has had its name changed since the drawing of this map. The new street name is not known Brook Street is now known as Tyne Street Base map: Plan of Island Bay, Wellington South. W. O. Beere, C.E., Authorised surveyor. Printed note on right of title of base map refers to a poll taken about a proposal for a loan to be taken out for the purpose and construction and extending the 'Electric Tramways' in the Island Bay District. Also a second loan for 'street and footpath formation' in the same district. Handwritten title on verso: Plan of Island Bay Quantity: 4 map(s) on one sheet comprising two copies of maps with annotations and two manuscript maps. Physical Description: Pencil, ink and colourwash on paper, part dressed linen backing and part linen backed, coloured, 66.6 x 113.8 cm.