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Beere, Edward Holroyd, 1843-1906 :Plan of the township of Kilbirnie, shewing amended su...
Date: 1877 - 1889
By: Beere, Edward Holroyd, 1843-1906; Lyon & Blair Ltd
Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Ki/1877-89/Acc.10637
Description: Cadastral map of Evans Bay to Kilbirnie, also to Constable and Owen streets, Newtown, Wellington. The area includes the coastline with Patent Slip and proposed jetties near Belvedere Road to Rodrigo Road, Kilbirnie. Numbered sections include acreages and some sites of houses. Roads are named and a stream with a bridge is marked. A note states 'right to water' at Busaco Road. A track to Lyell [sic] Bay is noted, as is a road to the Pilot Station. The town belt is marked. The lithographer is named as Lyon & Blair. Additions to the map are prominently marked sections at Evans Bay with various dates and names of Short, Williams, Ferguson, Harcourt, B. Smith, Rhodes, Rae, McCarthy, Boon, Earl, Knowles, Barber, Tait, White, Edw. Barton. The name of Lyon is marked in sections at Kilbirnie. Coloured sections are listed in key and refer to sections transferred by Mr. Pearce to various purchasers, which include Lot numbers, names and dates. Names include Sarah Ann Rhodes, W. Kemp, Ann Compton, McCarthy, Easby, McLennan, P. Farr, Moody & Smith, Adams, Jens Peter Jorgeson, Jane Compton, Geo. Zannin, M. Alexander, William Hayman, Ellen Stafford, Whitcombe, Church Trustees, T. Ladd, H. Green, Ferguson, Mary Elizabeth Salmon, Wm. Salmon, E. O. Gibbs, Keasbury, Margaret Price, E. H. Hurst, W. J. L. Travers, Marion Orr, Andrew Orr, C. L. Zohrab, John Earl, J Lockhead, A. J. Bredahl, Baker, J. B. Harcourt, W. K. Williams, Lyon, J. Bradbury, H. Alexander, McAllister, Travers, W. M. Muir, H. J. Whircher, Brandon & Sons, McDermott, Mary Love, J. Dransfield, Ella Rollison, E. W. Lowe, Pedgen, Crease, J. Wagg, J. Knowles, Cath Rae, J. Mills, J. Higginbottom, Murray, John Vine, Richardson, Short. Scale of original: [1:3 168] Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and coloured pencil on duplicate plan, coloured, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 71 x 50.1 cm.
Teaching work book
Date: 1954
From: Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki, 1925-2009: Collection
Reference: MSX-6794
Description: Teaching work book for Campbell's time at Newtown School in 1954 Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Newtown, Wellington
Date: [190-?]
From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific
Reference: 1/1-039503-G
Description: View looking south-west over Newtown, Wellington, from vicinity of Connaught Terrace. Houses in the vicinity of Whaui, Moffit and Liardet Streets, Vogeltown, are in the foreground. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Other - Centre of 3 part panorama with LJD-25-05 and LJD-25-07 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Tent outside Government House, Newtown, Wellington, a temporary dining room for many gu...
Date: [ca 17 Nov 1986]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Nicholson, John, active 1997
Reference: EP/1986/5797-F
Description: Tent outside Government House, Newtown, Wellington, a temporary dining room pitched by the army, for the many guests staying with the Governor General and his wife, Sir and Lady Reeves, over the weekend. Photographs taken circa 17 November 1986, by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Calvary Hospital under construction
Date: 1929
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP-1329-1/2-G
Zoo, Wellington
Date: 1918
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: 1/4-023190-G
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Newtown Bowling Club, Clubs, Newtown, Wellington
Date: 1912
From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: 1/4-045421-G
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Newtown School :Historical calendar 2005.
Date: 2004 - 2005
From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]
By: Newtown School (Newtown, Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-2005-01
Description: Calendar with 12 openings, showing scenes in Newtown: South Wellington Fire Station 1922, St James Presbyterian Church 1910, Newtown Park Easter Carnival 1913, Nattrass Churn Company on Adelaide Road 1911-1914, General Hospital 1885, cnr Hall & Hanson Streets 1893, Constable Street 1910, Public Library in Riddiford Street 1905, Ewart Hospital and Coromandel Street 1909, Newtown School 1912, Tram tracks in Riddiford Street ca 1910, Caledonian Hotel 1910, the old Newtown School. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s) calendar (plus duplicate). Physical Description: Photolithographs on calendar, 210 x 295 mm.
A capital childhood. Growing up in post-war Wellington
Date: [ca 1999]
From: Gray, Godfrey, 1941-: Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6488-2
Description: Godfrey Gray's recollections of his childhood from ca 1937-1957 before he started his career in New Zealand broadcasting Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Godfrey Gray, 1999
Wellington (N.Z.). City Engineer's Department. Town Planning Branch :City of Wellington...
Date: 1950 - 1959
By: Wellington (N.Z.). City Engineer's Department. Town Planning Branch
Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/1950/Acc.37343-47
Description: Five base maps of the Adelaide Road and King Street industrial area, Newtown, Wellington have been used to show the conversion of residential and multiple small industrial units to two industrial enterprises based there in 1950 approximately. Myrtle Crescent, Drummond and Hansen streets are named. Plan No. T.P. 111 - 4/68 shows the existing conditions of residential and industrial occupancy. A reference key details the number of residential units and persons. The industrial reference key lists street addresses, names of occupiers and volume of floor space. Occupants include slipper factory, plumber, bank agency, grocer, furniture factory, metal spinner, carrier's depot, ladies tailors. Also named is a section of vacant Crown Land and W.C.C. sub-station. Pencilled additions are of a reclamation area, Wellington City Council sections, Tramway Hotel, site of a new building, also the names Spincraft, East, Harte. Plan No. T.P. 112 - 4/69, Stage 1 of Development. Reference keys show numbers of families to be re-housed from residences to be demolished and premises required for industry which includes ownership statistics of Asiatics. Industries to be rehoused are listed as plumber, furniture factory, metal spinner, millinery, grocer, bank agency. Property to be acquired is also highlighted. Plan No. T.P. 113 - 4/70, Stage 2 of Development, shows the Post and Telegraph Department's site, approximate area 5,500 square feet. The building line is marked. The route of King Street has been altered. Plan No. 114 - 4/71, Stage 3 of Development. The Post and Telegraph Department's site, approximate area 55.500 square feet with building line is shown. Also the Incubator Factory site with its building line and site of a new building is prominently marked. Family units to be re-housed from residences to be demolished are referred to in a key. Plan No. 115 - 4/72, Stage 4 of Development. The Post and Telegraph Department's site, approximate area 55,500 square feet, with building line is shown. The Incubator Factory site, approximate area of 41,400 square feet, with building line and site of a new building is marked. Pencilled annotations include the site of a future Incubator Factory building. A proposed road is marked from King Street to Myrtle Crescent. Quantity: 5 map(s). Physical Description: Pencil and colourwash on lithograph, coloured, scale [1:480], sheets 51.2 x 70.9 cm.
Busy Fingers Inc : Records
Date: 1968-1995
By: Busy Fingers Inc (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: MS-Papers-5265
Description: The records include committee minutes, annual general meeting records, financial records, incorporation details and a short history of the society Busy Fingers began in 1968 to help disabled and housebound people in Newtown, Wellington, mainly providing means to go on outings Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter (some photocopies) Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 2 photo albums (1) Busy Fingers 1968-1993; (2) Scrapbook with photographs and newsclippings from 1982 to 1988.
Haughton, Son & Mair, architects :Occupational therapy building, Wellington Hospital, f...
Date: 1954
By: Haughton, Son & Mair (Firm); Bulleyment Fortune Architects (Firm)
Reference: Plans-97-011-322
Description: Shows floor plans, sections and elevations. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and pen on tissue, 470 x 730 mm.
[Photographer unknown] :5th Contingent camped at Newtown Park, Wellington
Date: 1900
Reference: PAColl-D-0708
Description: Birds eye view of the 5th Contingent's camp at Newtown Park taken looking north. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Fifth Contingent Welln Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: 410 x 570 mm on card
Wellington District Committee - Correspondence re Newtown leasing
Date: 1953-1954
From: Congregational Union of New Zealand : Records
Reference: 91-295-7/5
Firth, Colin, 1908-1994 :Miss Greta Firth. Alterations to kitchen at No 20 Roy Street, ...
Date: 1978
From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans for privately-owned Wellington buildings. ca 1960-1982]
Reference: Plans-96-008-103
Description: Job No 689. Drawing No 1 - Floor plans, locality plan, interior elevations, details and sections Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 570 x 757 mm
Swan, John Sydney 1874-1936 :Convent of Mercy, Newtown. Altar table. 25.10.[19]04.
Date: 1904
From: Swan, John Sydney 1874-1936 :[Architectural plans and drawings, Wellington. 1903-1910].
By: Convent of Mercy (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: Plans-96-016-007
Description: Shows decorative detail on side panel, and section through centre. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - John S. Swan / No. 2649A Date 25.10.04 /Del. V.W. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and watercolour, on tracing paper, 250 x 514 mm. Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts & Archives on 18 November 1986. Came to the Library as part of Accession 73-105 (MS Papers 109, later identified as MS Group 5)..
Inferno Disco :Disco news. NZ's biggest disco - The Inferno opens with packed houses. [...
Date: 1978
Reference: Eph-C-DANCE-Social-1978-01
Description: A brochure or advertising newspaper issued to announce the opening (the previous week) of the Inferno Disco at the corner of Riddiford and Constable Street in Newtown. Reports on the DJ Malcolm Shipley assisted by Pete Bell. The brochure contains photographs of the opening, comments upon the influence of the film "Saturday night fever" and "Grease" both starring John Travolta, reviews two recent films and several film soundtracks. The disco was open evenings Wednesday - Sunday and on Saturday afternoons. There is also an advertisement for Studio 76 and tutor Sharon Vanesse whose students danced at the opening of the Inferno. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on newsprint 8-page brochure, each page 420 x 297 mm.
Haughton & McKeon, architects :Proposed orthopaedic casu[a]lty block, Wellington Hospit...
Date: 1950
From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By: Bulleyment Fortune Architects (Firm); Haughton & McKeon (Firm)
Reference: Plans-97-011-289
Description: Shows floor plans, section and elevation. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo print with pencil hand-colouring, 520 x 790 mm.
Calvary Newtown Hospital, Wellington
Date: 1929
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP-1332-1/2-G
Description: From box containing EP-1329 to 1342 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).