IMAGE
Mr W Malin, Athletic Park groundsman, with roofing nails collected from playing surface after storm
- Date
- 19 April 1968
- Reference
- EP/1968/1656/37-F
- Description
Mr W Malin, Athletic Park groundsman, with one of three buckets of roofing nails collected from the playing surface at Athletic Park, Wellington, photographed 19 April 1968 by an Evening Post staff photographer.
Original newspaper caption states "....Mr Malin (a 1920-21 Wellington rugby representative), the park caretaker (Mr P A Hinds) and four other workers spent two days clearing the ground from the aftermath of last Wednesdays storm. Lead-capped nails were showered onto the ground after roofing iron on the main stand was lifted and hurled down by fierce wind....". (Evening Post, 19 April 1968).
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) individual image on negative strip.
Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Print in Turnbull Library Pictures Evening Post illustrations file at EP-Municipal-Athletic Park-05
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers / Mr W Malin, Athletic Park groundsman, with roofing nails collected from playing surface after storm
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s) individual image on negative strip, Negatives, Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
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Mr W Malin, Athletic Park groundsman, with roofing nails collected from playing surface after storm. Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers. Ref: EP/1968/1656/37-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22744423More information can be found in our terms of use.