Caledonian Hotel (Wellington, N.Z.)

Date: 1962-1969

From: Wellington Regional Planning Authority : Records

Reference: 75-156-434

Description: Topics include: Sale of `Taumaru', Lowry Bay; Wellington Club building; Mahanga Bay wharf, Miramar; Katherine Mansfield's home, 133 Tinakori Road, Thorndon; site of Wellington Hospital; whaling days at Kapiti and Mana (by W Carkeek); Lyall Bay; Willis Street; old fort at Ngauranga; Wellington No-Licence League; Wellington Town Board; Mitchelltown; Upper Hutt School; floating dock; Days Bay; Wellington rates; Paremata Barracks; plans for Civic Theatre; Karori; pa sites; James Coutts Crawford; Alexander Turnbull Library; Caledonian Hotel; T G McCarthy Hotel (Wakefield Hotel); Esplanade Hotel; Masonic & Family Hotel; Prowse family; Wellington waterfront; Hutt Road; pilot's house at 229 Marine Parade, Worser Bay; Bolton Street Cemetery; Old St Paul's; Pauatahanui pa sites; St Matthew's Church, Washington Ave, Brooklyn; Wellington Town Hall Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1988-1998

From: Shephard, Wayne, active 1990-2001: Papers relating to Wellington buildings

Reference: 2007-116-002

Description: File comprises Archive of Wellington Architecture research forms. Some forms include newspaper cuttings. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: Selected names indexed.

Date: [1970-1976]

From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Papers

Reference: 77-067-6/06

Description: Typescript copy of Lawlor's `Old Wellington hotels' and corrected script, `The Wets and the drys', reminiscences of the liquor laws and how they operated, which was taped 26 Mar 1973 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1862

Reference: PA6-822

Description: Nine photographic prints, mounted on paper and fabric, forming a panoramic view of Thorndon in 1862. Photographer unidentified. Shows Lambton Quay reclamation in progress, and businesses and houses on the Quay including the Crown & Anchor hotel, Oddfellows hall, The Caledonian hotel, Plimmer's Ark, and the South Sea hotel. The house belonging to John Farr Hoggard is on the hill behind. Also shows a wharf, and longboats on the shore and in the water. Some people and a horse are visible. The photographs are faded, some more than others. There is also some fly dirt, and staining and pin holes on the fabric mount. While this photograph is unattributed, it is probably taken by George Swan. The writing and presentation are very similar to the different, but similar, panorama held by Te Papa. Title supplied by Library. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Wellington. New Zealand. 1862. [in pen] A similar panorama, attributed to George Swan, is held by Te Papa, registration number 0.045037. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s) joined to form a panorama. Physical Description: 9 albumen prints side by side measuring 117 cm x 1632 cm, on paper and fabric mount measuring 270 cm x 1755 cm Processing information: Descriptive record updated with additional information from Library Photographic Curator, May 2018.

Date: 1950 - 1959

From: Scales, Sidney Ernest :Cartoons. 1950s

Reference: A-298-103

Description: Shows a man pouring an angry Scotsman a drink of lemonade, two firefighters putting out a fire while a group of people watch on, and a man laughing as he reads a book of Sid Scales' cartoons. Refers to lemonade replacing whiskey as Scotland's national beverage, fire at Caledonian grandstand, sale of 1955 collection of Sid Scales' cartoons from the Otago Daily Times. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 280 x 380 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service..

Date: 1878-1956, n d

From: Levin & Company Ltd : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1347-3/2/129

Description: Andrew Young, Lambton Quay, Wellington, 1898; J C Young, Westport, 1910 (appointed agent for Himatangi and Gertie); T & W Young re lease of Post Office Hotel, 1878; Frederick Conrad Yule, Taratahi, Carterton, 1893-1938 and miscellaneous envelopes for Mrs Green, R R Murray, M O Rigarlsford, T V Sharnon, D Sullivan and Wellington Trust Loan & Investment Society Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1975

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1235

Description: All frames show students, mostly boys from Wellington College, leaving school and waiting for buses in the Adelaide Road area. Frame 3 shows a group coming around the corner by the Caledonian Hotel, other frames show groups at a bus stop. A few girls are also at the bus stop, including one girl wearing a gym tunic and a pendant cross. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

From: Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-036351-F

Description: Looking south over roofs to the Basin Reserve, Wellington, where a crowd watches a cricket game. On the right is Adelaide Road with the Caledonian Hotel on the corner. Wellington College buildings are on the top left. Also on the left is St Mark's Church. Houses around Rugby Street and Adelaide Road can also be seen. Photograph taken by Gordon Burt. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [23 July 1951]

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

Reference: 114/327/06-G

Description: The Caledonian Hotel, on Adelaide Road in Wellington, photographed circa 23 July 1951 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres

Date: ca 1910

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

Reference: 1/1-019930-G

Description: (Labour Day?) parade making its way along Rugby Street, Wellington, circa 1910, past the Caledonian Hotel. Shows a convoy of floats, including two trucks, moving towards Adelaide Road. Spectators line the road. The two storied Caledonian Hotel is on the right with signs advertising D Sullivan and E M Davey (above the doorway). St Mark's School is in the background, far left. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1912

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

Reference: 1/1-022805-G

Description: Looking south east across the Basin Reserve towards St Mark's Church, Wellington College, the Caledonian Hotel on the corner of Adelaide Road, and Government House in the background. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1900]

Reference: 1/2-059705-F

Description: View looking east from above Tasman Street, Wellington, across the Basin Reserve toward Mount Victoria. On the far right is Wellington College, with St Mark's Church and schoolroom to the left of this. The Caledonian Hotel is visible on the corner of Adelaide Road and Rugby Street. Smoke is rising from a residence in the foreground. Early plantations of pines can be seen around the Basin Reserve and behind Wellington College (both early 1870s), and on Mount Victoria between Pire and Ellis Streets (planted 1880). Taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1900. Source of descriptive information - In 2008, David Lloyd identified the two storied house with ground floor bay windows (left foreground) as 23 Tasman Street, which is the Tasman Street veterinary centre. This use of the building dates from 1962. The buildings to the left and behind the two storied house, have been demolished. This area is now the site of the Te Awhina Apartments and the Seventh Day Adventist Church car park. Note on back of file print reads: Basin reserve, Wellington College on right, St Marks Church and schoolroom. Caledonian Hotel on corner of Adelaide Road. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative