Places

Date: 1908 - 1909

From: [Postcard album of cards collected by Bessie Cornish. 1905-1920].

Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-12-075

Description: Shows a view of the Hutt Road with the railway beside it, and an overhead bridge, across which the New Plymouth train is steaming. Wellington is in the distance, with the harbour at the left. Published by Fergusson Limited, and printed in Sydney. Sepia series. Exhibited in 'Petone Days; Photographs by Percy Godber 1900-1920 (Exhibition)' Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard in album.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 89 x 138 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs B L M August in 1976.

Date: 1904 - 1905

From: [Postcard album of cards collected by Joye Eggers / Taylor. 1905-1970s].

By: Aldersley, David James, 1862-1928

Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-6-009-btm

Description: Shows a train steaming northwards beside the Hutt Road and Wellington Harbour. There is a horse and cart in the central foreground, and the city of Wellington behind. Exhibited in 'Petone Days; Photographs by Percy Godber 1900-1920 (Exhibition)' Photograph is probably by David Aldersley. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Hand-coloured photograph, 140 x 89 mm.

Date: 1903

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketches

Reference: E-346-3-051

Description: View along the Hutt Road, with possibly the Kaiwharwhara Hotel in the foreground, a boat in the harbour (or at the water's edge?), Somes Island and the Hutt Valley in the distance Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 163 x 224 mm

Date: 1905 to 1907

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-197

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1905 and 1907, covering a variety of topics. They include family photographs, both individual and group portraits, and Wellington houses (eg `Railway Whare', the house Godber and his family lived in, in Bay Street, Petone). One scene shows Godber's parents, Mary Ann and Charles Godber, with a large group of family members, including Albert Percy Godber, his wife Laura, and two children, Phyllis and William (p.21). On p. 13, Godber's wife Laura and two children are seen with an elderly couple, probably Laura's parents Charles Albert and Magdelina Clara Zinckgraf. Numbers of images show scenes associated with New Zealand Railways, including the Mataroa Railway Tunnel under construction, specific locomotives, signal stations, the railway station at Petone, and scenes at the Petone Railway Workshops. At the beginning of the album, several images show Godber and a team from the Petone Fire Brigade with medals they have won at fire-fighting practice competitions. A pocket at the front of the album holds two photographs, on of a new cutting on the road near Lowry Bay, and one of the `model of `D' class locomotive used in the Petone Peace Demonstration Procession' following the Boer War in 1902, signed `With A.P. Godber's compliments'. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 105 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 19.5 x 26.0 cm

Date: 1949

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

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-D-07-214/216

Description: Includes sections and elevation, and a drainage and site plan. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on sheets 600 x 760 mm.

Date: [1890s-1900s]

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: PAColl-D-0165

Description: Photograph of the Gear Meat Company, Petone looking south to Somes Island. Houses line both sides of Hutt Road in the foreground. In the immediate foreground is a timber yard and a bridge across the railway line. There is a horse and cart parked on the road. One the far right is a building on Jackson Street with Baker Bros estate advertisement painted on the side. Photographer unidentified; date possibly 1890s or early 1900s. Compare with image at PAColl-D-0162 taken on the same day from a slightly different angle Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 350 x 545 mm on card

Date: [ca 1950s]

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co

By: Whites Aviation Ltd

Reference: PAColl-D-0106

Description: Aerial photograph of Gear Meat Company and surrounding area looking west towards the Hutt Road and Horokiwi Quarries. Includes Petone Esplanade, Petone Railway Station, Jackson Street, Cornish Street industrial area, etc. Probably taken by Whites Aviation Ltd in 1950s. Inscriptions: Mat recto - centre - Gear Meat Co. Ltd, Petone, New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) hand coloured. Physical Description: 38 x 47.5 cm with mount

Date: 1960

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans. ca 1930-1980]

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: Plans-94-039-029

Description: Elevation from the roadside of Clyde Engineering with showroom or reception area and factory buildings. The premises were at 419 Hutt Road. The view shows trees in the foreground and hills behind the premises Another copy of this view, coloured in pencil and crayon held at D-001-034 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, hand-coloured with watercolours, 622 x 1107 mm Provenance: Donation: Greta & Hilda Firth, 1994

Date: February 1928

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1767-1/2-G

Description: View of a horse-drawn cart and two cars negotiating a flooded area on the Hutt Road at Silverstream. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in February 1928. Information from Godber's index (TL 6/1/15) held in Photographic Archives (under 1/2 plate negatives: Box 109. Flood. Hutt Road. (2). Silverstream. 2/28) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: Between 1915 and 1916

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-195

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1915 and 1916. Many of the images show various aspects of logging in Piha and Karekare. Views include the Piha Tramway, bush railway inclines, scenes of lumbermen cutting down kauri trees and cross-cutting felled trees, transportation of logs by bullock teams and horse-drawn rail wagons, the Piha timber camp and mill and men at everyday activities in camp buildings and in their workmen's huts. Other sections of the album show views of Petone, and Godber's family (his wife, Laura Godber, and two children, Phyllis and William (Bill)); views of the central North Island; farming in the Mendip Hills (Canterbury); and views of Trentham. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 101 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 26 x 30 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1487-F

Description: Panoramic view of Wellington City and Harbour taken from a hill on the way up to Wadestown. Thorndon Quay with Dalgety's Stores are seen on the left, railway yards centre right, with a large area of reclaimed land and areas awaiting reclamation in the centre foreground. Wharves edge the harbour centre right middle distance, city on the right, Oriental Bay and Mount Victoria visible in the right background. Several fishing boats in the harbour. Start of the Hutt Road just visible on the far left, and Petone is in the distance on the far left. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Wellington Harbour showing Petone 317 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 134.4 cm

Date: [ca 1929-1933]

From: Singleton family: Photographs, particularly relating to Wellington signwriting business 'Singleton Signs'

Reference: PA1-o-1892

Description: An album of photographs, and ephemera, of circa 1930s, relating to Claude Singleton's Wellington signwriting business - 'Singleton Signs Ltd'. The album appears to have been compiled by the business in circa 1930s, probably by Singleton himself. Photographers are unidentified. The album mainly contains photographs of signs, produced by the company. These include wallboard signs, cut-outs, posters, hoardings, iron signs, calico signs, window displays, roadside signs, wall signs, and truck and van displays. Many are photographed in situ and some are photographed in the studio or workroom. Also, an exterior shot of the Singleton Signs studio in Newtown and interior shots of Tory Street studio. Also shots of signs being worked on in the studio or workroom, road-side signs being erected, men wearing sandwich board signs, and street views with exteriors of some buildings shown. Also contains photographs of exhibition stands at the 'Winter Show', including images of automobiles, motorcycles, and fridges. Also included is one image of an unidentified bridge and river Glued into the album are letters of recommendation, examples of letterhead for the business, and leaflets advertising the business. Captions for some images supply the dimensions, locations, or clients, for specific signs. Three images that were loose within this album were removed to PAColl-10312 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album 18 x 30 cm black cover with 'Singleton Signs' handwritten on front. The black pages have some borders and decorations in grey

Date: [between 1925 and 1927]

From: Wilkinson, James Douglas, 1926- :Photograph albums depicting the ashphalting of roads in Wellington

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-q-268

Description: Photographs taken between 1925 and 1927 depicting the ashphalting of roads in the Wellington region. Includes photographs taken for the Wellington City Council by Frank Giles Barker. Inserted in a pocket inside the back cover there are three loose photographs showing the Hutt Road alongside Wellington Harbour. Photographs of the Hutt Road include those alongside the harbour, and also some of the "Main Hutt Road" in Lower and Upper Hutt. Most of the photographs have good captions, with the title at the head of each one which reads "Asphaltic concrete pavement". Other - Some of the original negatives, from which these photographs were printed, are amongst the Wellington City Council collection at PAColl-5448. Other Titles - Asphaltic concrete pavement Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cloth cover, entitled "Photographs", 65 black paper pages of black and white photographs; 28.5 x 38.5 cm

Date: 1960

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: C-002-009

Description: Ground and first floor plans for showroom, office and workshop space for Clyde Engineering. Their premises were at 419 Hutt Road. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, hand-coloured with pastels and coloured pencils 557 x 808 mm Provenance: Donation: Greta & Hilda Firth, 1994

Date: 1960

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: D-001-034

Description: Architectural elevation of showrooms, office space and workshop for Clyde Engineering at 419 Hutt Road, Lower Hutt. The view is from across the road with hills in the background and trees around the premises Another copy of this view, in watercolours on a diazo print, at Plans-94-039-029 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, hand-coloured with pastels and coloured pencils 555 x 1040 mm Provenance: Donation: Greta & Hilda Firth, 1994

Date: 1941 - 1947 - 1956 - 1942 - 1949

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

By: Mitchell & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-038-028/037

Description: Floor plans, sections and site plans for factory building, corner Hutt Road and Nevis Street, Petone. Plan-2002-058-038-036 is of Colonial Carrying Co of New Zealand Ltd. Store. 25 Wigan St, Wellington, August 1949. First and ground floor plans and section Quantity: 10 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to around 590 x 740 mm.

Date: 1914

Reference: MapColl-832.4796gbbd/1914/Acc.27635

Description: Survey map showing acreage of part of Mrs Johnson's property, 41 Hutt Road, Petone. The acreage survey was undertaken for Mr Cook. The name 'Mr Ray Johnston' is written on bottom right of map. 'No 41, Hutt Road', is written on this map in pencil. Title from handwritten note on map. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale indeterminable, 24 x 32 cm.

Date: February 1928

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1770-1/2-G

Description: View of a truck with a tarpaulin over its load negotiating a flooded area on the Hutt Road at Silverstream. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in February 1928. Information from Godber's index (TL 6/1/15) held in Photographic Archives (under 1/2 plate negatives: Box 109. Flood. Hutt Road. (2). Silverstream. 2/28) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [between 1925 and 1926]

From: Wilkinson, James Douglas, 1926- :Photograph albums depicting the ashphalting of roads in Wellington

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Maybury, Horace R, active 1907-1943

Reference: PA1-q-267

Description: Photographs taken between 1925 and 1926 depicting the ashphalting of roads in the Wellington region. Includes photographs taken for the Wellington City Council by Frank Giles Barker and Horace R Maybury. Other - Original negatives, from which some of these photographs were printed, are amongst the Welllington City Council collection at PAColl-5448 Quantity: 112 b&w original photographic print(s) on album pages. Physical Description: Album with beige fabric cover and 58 brown paper pages, entitled "Album"; 27.5 x 38.5 cm

Date: 1958

Reference: Plans-80-1100

Description: An elevation showing a motorway overbridge with an underpass leading to Ngaio and a petrol station and shops beneath the upper roadway on either side of the underpass. Possibly a proposed design for intersection on the Hutt Road at the bottom of Ngaio Gorge Road, Kaiwharawhara. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph, 97 x 296 mm