Places

Date: 1929 - 1932 - 1948 - 1938

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Atkins & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-007-069/077

Description: Includes plan of sections near the intersection of Townsend, Awa, Matai Roads and Rotheram Terrace; plans for a timber house to be erected at Matai Road Miramar for Mrs C H Mitchell; garage for Mr C H Mitchell at Darlington Road Miramar; house at Rakau Road Hataitai; alterations to a residence of Mr C H Mitchell at Roseneath. Quantity: 9 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings and diazo prints on waxed linen, sizes varying.

Date: [ca 1930], 1946-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-175

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1946-1959 Kapiti coastline (including view looking north from Paekakariki); Lower Hutt - St James' Church; council buildings; Riddiford Baths; library; St Stephen's Presbyterian Church; aerial view of southern end of Lower Hutt (over Moera); elevated view of Naenae (showing Rata Street School in foreground). Rimutaka Hill Road; Kaitoke, 1948 (shows swing bridge); filtration plant site (Hutt River) re Kaitoke Waterworks construction; bridge at Pakutatahi; Akatarawa Valley road (with Morris Minor at roadside); house in Akatarawa Valley; Hutt Valley Pony Club members with their ponys on Akatarawa Road; Kapiti coast looking north from Paekakariki. Middle Run, Gladstone in Wairarapa - Daffodils in paddocks at Middle Run (owned by Mrs W H Booth), and view of homestead Elevated view of Miramar looking south-west; Lambton Quay with Kirkcaldie & Stains on left; Pigeon Park; Wellington Botanic Garden and tulip beds; view from Mount Victoria looking towards the Basin Reserve, Mount Cook and Brooklyn, with houses in Mount Victoria in foreground (taken ca 1930). Demonstration house at Karori designed and built by The Architectural Centre, 1949 Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1915-1925]

Reference: PAColl-6889

Description: 5 views of Miramar Gas Works and the streets surrounding it including carts being loaded from overhead hoppers; three of the Hutt River mouth; one of railway yards with a gas works in the background; a view from The Terrace looking out over the harbour with gardens in the foreground; and one of Island Bay looking east across The Parade. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044251 to 044261 and 106035 Quantity: 12 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: ca 1900

Reference: PAColl-6550

Description: Two views of Miramar flats looking from the north east. One shows the first golf pavilion in the foreground and the other the Crawford house. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-014973 and 014974 Quantity: 2 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1846 - 1847 - 1850

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: A-229-032

Description: View across the newly-drained Burnham Water area of Miramar towards J. C. Crawford's farm with a small building on the slopes in the middle distance. Other Titles - Miramar Peninsula Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 135 x 195 mm

Date: 1970 - 1989

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

Reference: Plans-2007-030-0131/0166

Description: Includes floor plans and plans of details of architraves, skirting, jambs, trim, cornices, etc. The buildings included are: 0131: Adelaide Road - Sally Schoons 0132: Angus [Rita Angus Cottage, Thorndon?] 0133: 6 Ascot Street 0134-0135: Chapman-Taylor house, Burnell Avenue 0136-0137: Futuna Chapel, Karori 0138: W R Sims' residence, 66 Homewood Ave, Karori 0139: Mr A E Boyes, Duthie Street Karori (diazo print) 0140-0141: Khandallah Automatic Telephone Exchange 0142: Mairiri [Mariri?] Road, Queen Anne style 0143: Brick bungalow in Mirimar [Miramar] 0144-0145: Park Street. Military cottage, cnr Grant Road and Park Street 0146: Plimmer House 0147-0148: Roxburgh Street 0149: Rugby Street, Wellington 0150: 127 Tasman Street and 193 Tinakori Road 0151-0152: Tinakori Road 0153: Wadestown and 202 Tinakori Road 0154: 64 Wright Street 0155: Gary Adams Ltd, 37 Percy Dyett Drive, Karori 0156: Wellington 0157: 156 The Terrace 0158: Hobart Street, Wellington. Page 64 0159: Military cottage - section 0160: Brick villa Wellington. Page 50 0161-0163: J L Williams, Otahuao 0164: Otaki and Otahuao 0165: Jenkins cottage [Otaki] 0166: Station master's house, Greytown, 1850 These measured drawings were made for inclusion in the book "Restoring with style" (1985). Quantity: 36 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings, and diazo prints, sizes varying

Date: 1950 to 1957

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-014

Description: Adkin album. Wellington (2), nos. 241-441. Views of Wellington taken between 1950 and 1957. Includes harbour swim event at Evans Bay, 26 February 1950; speedboat contests at Evans Bay, 4 March 1950; Patent slip and the Union Steam Ship Co's wharf at Evans Bay; tulip Sunday at the Wellington Botanic Garden (15 October 1950); Evans Bay Yacht Club yard in use as a temporary base for Solent flying boats with the Ararangi at a mooring; various views of reclamation undertaken by TEAL for their flying boat service at Evans Bay, and flying boats. Many of the images in this album are linked with Evans Bay, as Adkin was living at 424 Evans Bay Parade in the 1950s, several images showing the house. Views of Wellington from the Mount Victoria lookout and from the Tinakori Ridge Radio Station, in 1952; the old Robert Hannah residence in Boulcott Street; views of the inner city including the upper end of Ghuznee St., Upper Willis St., the Children's Dental Clinic. Image no. 313 shows a house at 214 Upper Willis Street (known as Restwyn), taken in Feb 1953, while image no. 434 shows the same site in January 1957 after the house had been demolished. Numbers of images show preparations and decorations for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. There are many photographs of preparation for extending the airport at Rongotai, showing Moa Point Hill in course of destruction to provide spoil for reclamation, and also Rongotai Ridge, with one view of a house being moved from the ridge, also showing development of the breakwater at Moa Point, all taken betwen 1953 and 1957. A 1954 image shows an extension to the Town Hall under construction for municipal offices in December 1953; the Hinemoa at No. 1 Ferry Wharf; preparations and decorations for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in December 1953, including decorations at the Railway Station, Defence Stores Building in Featherston St., Kirkcaldie & Stains, James Smiths Corner, DIC, and the GPO. Image taken in March 1956 shows a house with turret on the corner of Upper Willis St and Aro St (a house which was shown in CD Barraud's painting of 1877). Views of yachting in the harbour, Ward Island, and the Eastbourne seawall. Outcast yacht is pictured.

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

Reference: Plans-91-0094

Description: Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing

Date: [ca July-August] 1934

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-122291-F

Description: An aerial view of Wellington in 1934, looking over Mt Cook, Basin Reserve, Newtown (upper centre and right), Hataitai, Kilbirnie and Miramar (upper left). Some of the buildings which can be identified are: National Museum Wellington (being constructed), Carillion War Memorial Monument and Wellington College. Photograph taken by a photographer from the Evening Post. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1840

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: A-146-001

Description: A hill with fern and low scrub in the foreground, with a view across the bush-covered Hutt Valley and Petone to the Wainuiomata Hills, with the Harbour, Somes Island and four immigrant ships, the harbour entrance and Miramar Peninsula. There are houses built by the first European settlers on the beach, possibly along with the buildings of Petone Pa, although the latter are indistinguishable from the settlers' houses. The Pa may be hidden from sight by a low rise to the right. Original drawing for a lithograph in E. J . Wakefield's "Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand" (London, 1845) Plate 3, with title "Port Nicholson from the hills above Pitone in 1840". The lithograph includes in its foreground a Maori woman gathering crops or food and three pigs. The ships shown are probably the first four immigrant ships to arrive in Wellington, the Aurora, the Oriental, the Duke of Roxburgh and the Bengal Merchant. The ships arrived between 22 January and 28 February 1840. Other Titles - Petone Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title, signature, and "Portfolio D" [the latter inscribed by staff of the New Zealand Company in London.; Recto - top centre - No. 55. New Zealand Company Mar 23 1842 [the latter a stamp indicating the date the drawing was received by the New Zealand Company in London]. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing 233 x 369 mm Provenance: Drawn for the New Zealand Company and sent to London. Purchased by Alexander Turnbull with other New Zealand Company material in 1915.

Date: [ca 1912]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 2

Reference: PAColl-5584-56

Description: Looking over Miramar, Wellington, circa 1912. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Miramar Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1929

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-046895-G

Description: Looking over rows of houses in Miramar, Wellington. Photograph taken 1929 by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 6 April 1931

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-5927-03

Description: Players at the Miramar Tennis Club, and houses behind, 6 April 1931. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Verso - Stamped in ink: Wellington Photographic Works; Verso - Tennis at Miramar 6/4/31 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 12 March 1938

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-5482-020

Description: The suburb of Miramar, Wellington, 1938. Shows Broadway (left), Fife Lane (right) and Crawford Green (right, middle ground). Golf links are on the left, with the club house on the right middle distance. State houses are visible, in the left foreground. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1920 - 1940

From: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955 :Negatives of New Zealand towns and scenery, and Fiji

Reference: 1/2-041934-G

Description: A view of Miramar showing the gas works. Photograph taken by William Hall Raine. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Aug 1947

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-020520-F

Description: Miramar, Wellington, August 1947. Darlington Road running diagonally in mid forground. Puriri Street running off to left. Miramar Park centre. Shell Oil Company Works left of centre. Photograph taken for the National Publicity Studios by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Streets and park identified by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: October 1967

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1967/5045B-F

Description: Aerial view over Miramar, Evans Bay, Kilbirnie and Hataitai looking south-west. In the foreground the hills of the Townsend Estate are being shaped and roaded for building Maupuia suburb. Miramar North Road, houses, and Miramar Park can be seen on the left. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer in October 1967. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 6 x 6 cm

Date: 1862 - 1880

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Recollections of travel in New Zealand. London, Trubner, 1880.

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: PUBL-0085-024

Description: A view from the north front of J. C. Crawford's house "Miramar" on the Miramar Peninsula (originally the [W]Hataitai Peninsula) showing the house with a woman and child on the front verandah and a second house to its right, looking to the south west, towards Lyall Bay, with part of Rongotai and Kilbirnie to the left and the Houghton Bay hills in the background. Cabbage trees and flax in the left foreground. The house has a fence around its garden. The house was built in 1840. Extended Title - From Crawford, J. C. Recollections of travel in New Zealand. London, Trubner, 1880, p. 24. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 92 x 158 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

Date: 14 July 1969

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Municipal-Towns, Wellington and Suburbs-Miramar-01

Description: Aerial view of Miramar Peninsula and Wellington Harbour looking north. Miramar streets and houses can be seen with layout of the future Mapuia suburb in centre. Beyond Maupuia is Mount Crawford and Wellington Harbour, with Somes Island and Hutt Valley hills in the distance. Photographed by an unknown photographer in July 1969. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 25 x 20 cm