Places

Date: 1847

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-007

Description: A shed-like house made of upright wooden slats, with an open door and two small windows at the near end. Outside the front door are two pigs. There is bush behind the house. The property was called Pihautea, at Kahutara, near Featherston Displayed in "Paradise" (Gifts to the nation), National Library Gallery, January - April 2005. A wood engraving version of this drawing was published in Crawford, J C. Travels in New Zealand and Australia. p. 83 This view may show the first property built on the Bidwill's farm. A second group of buildings may be shown in William Mein Smith's drawing 'Pihautea. C R Bidwill Esqr' [1849 or later] (reference number A-035-005) Other Titles - Bidwill Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 114 x 193 mm

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-003

Description: View across a small lake (Burnham Water) on Miramar (originally Hataitai) Peninsula towards J C Crawford's "Glendavar" homestead nestled amongst the hills of Mount Crawford. Glendavar was J C Crawford's cattle farm at the north end of the lake, Burnham Water. The lake was drained by Crawford in 1858 to provide further land. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 254 mm Provenance: Crawford family, Fife, Scotland.

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-008

Description: Kaiwharawhara stream and bridge in foreground; across the stream is a raupo hut and John Lodge's two-storeyed public house (also known as the Rainbow Hotel or Kaiwharawhara Hotel). The raupo whare is either one built for road-makers, or the immigration barracks built by Te Kaeaea (Taringa Kuri) to house Scottish colonists put ashore at Kaiwharawhara in December 1840. The area is shown before the 1855 earthquake, which raised the flat land in this part, and made the stream more shallow. The road up the hill on the near side of the stream is the Porirua Bridle Path, 6 feet wide. On the far side of the stream is the original Porirua coach road. (Information from Kapi-Mana news, Vol 23 no. 14, 10 March 1981, p. 22, by William Secker). Original deposited by on indefinite loan by Brigadier H N Crawford, August 1968. (See TL 2/56). Bequeathed to the Library in 1993 See also Onslow Historian, Vol 6 no 3, 1976, p. 9. Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 177 x 261 mm

Date: 1848

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-009

Description: View from behind the home of J. C. Crawford 'Glendavar', showing fenced paddocks, the house, the lake Burnham Water (later drained by Crawford), the Seatoun hills on the left, Maupuia hills on the right and Cook Strait in the distance Glendavar was J C Crawford's cattle farm at the North end of Burnham water, Miramar Other Titles - Cook Straits in distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 254 mm