Places

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.

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).

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

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

Date: 1929

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

Reference: EP-1329-1/2-G

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).

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).

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.

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

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.

Reference: 1/2-036187-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

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.

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.

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

Date: 1953-1954

From: Congregational Union of New Zealand : Records

Reference: 91-295-7/5

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

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)..

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.

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.

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).