Built in 1870 on the corner of Ascot Street and Tinakori Road. The hotel had accommodation and stabling for horses. The first owner was Charlie Gillespie. Was visited frequently by Sir George Grey. Photographed by A McKay, circa 1895: Info from back of file print of this photograph (1/2-021850). In the 20th Century the name of the Shepherds' Arms Hotel was changed to the Western Park, in the early part of the 21st Century the name reverted back to its original title
Shepherds' Arms Hotel (Wellington, N.Z.)
Photographer unknown: Wellington and district hotels and a tram accident
Date: [ca 1940-1950]
Reference: PAColl-6906
Description: 8 images of hotels including one of Porirua Hotel in the distance beyond a scattering of houses, a small church and a Shell station. Three are of a bad tram accident at the corner of Webb Street and Taranaki Street where a Thorndon tram went right through the premises adjacent to the Napier-Wellington Transport Co Ltd. Police and passers-by are looking on and workmen are trying to clear the debris. The last image is of what may be a nurses' hostel at Wellington Hospital. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-045211 to 045222 Quantity: 10 b&w original negative(s) glass. 2 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives
[Ephemera relating to hotels, motels, hostels and other accommodation in Wellington. 19...
Date: 1990 - 1999
Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Wellington-1990/1999
Description: Partial contents include material on the following accommodation: Abel Tasman Hotel Belvedere Motel Paekakariki Booklovers Bed & breakfast Dunrobin House Flanagans Hotel and Cambridge Hotel Holdsworth Homestay Hotel Raffaele Iona Motel Apartments James Cook Centra Hotel Manor Inn Medeva Inn Parkroyal Hotel Plaza International Hotel Portland Towers Hotel Quality Inn Plimmer Towers Richmond Guest House Royal Oak Hotel Shepherds Arms Hotel (formerly Western Park Tavern) Tinakori Lodge Trekkers Hotel Motel Wellington Downtown Backpackers Quantity: 2 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying up to 250 mm.
[Ephemera relating to hotels, motels, hostels and other accommodation in Wellington. 19...
Date: 2000 - 2009
Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Wellington-2000/2009
Description: Partial contents include material on the following accommodation: Abel Tasman Hotel Airport Lodge Motel Aitken on Mulgrave Suites Apollo Lodge Motel Ardeven Boutique Homestay Bay Plaza Hotel Bolton Hotel Booklovers Bed & Breakfast (Mt Victoria) Brentwood Hotel Cambridge Hotel and Backpackers Capital View Motor Inn Central City Apartment Hotel City Life Hotels Comfort Hotel Copthorne Hotel Duxton Hotel Edgewater Boutique Homestay Finnimore House (Vogeltown) Halswell Lodge (Courtenay Place) Holiday Inn Ibis Hotel Intercontinental James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor Just Hotel Matai Homestay Mercure Hotel (Accor Hotels) Museum Hotel (Hotel de Wheels) Ngatipa in the Bay (Oriental Bay) Novotel Hotel Capital Portland Towers Hotel Quality Hotel (Oriental Bay and Willis Street) Rangiora Bed & Breakfast (Kelburn) Rosemere Backpackers Ruby House Shalimares Sharella Motor Inn Shepherds Arms Hotel (formerly Western Park Tavern) Thorndon Views Tinakori Lodge The Wellesley Boutique Hotel The Wellingtonian (service apartments) The Woolshed (Ohariu Valley) Quantity: 3 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying up to 250 mm.
Western Park Tavern: [Beer mat. 1980s?]
Date: 1980 - 1989
From: [Beer mats and coasters collected in the 1980s, by Maree Kibblewhite, Janet Horncy and others].
Reference: Eph-A-ALCOHOL-Beermats-1980s-01
Description: Circular cardboard coaster shows the logo of the Western Park Tavern in Tinakori Road, Thorndon, Wellington - a beer tankard with an ornate lid, slightly raised. Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on card, diameter 90 mm. Provenance: Donated by Maree Kibblewhite in 2002.
[Ephemera of quarto size relating to hotels and motels in Wellington or its environs. 1...
Date: 1930 - 2020
Reference: Eph-B-HOTEL-Wellington
Description: Includes ephemera from the following hotels: Abel Tasman Hotel 1980 Aitken on Mulgrave Burma Motor Lodge Hillcrest Lodge Motel James Cook Centra James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor 2010 Mercure Accor Hotels Parkroyal Plaza International Hotel 1988 Portland Towers Proposed tourist house on the corner of Grant Road and Harriet Street, Thorndon Royal Oak Shepherds' Arms Hotel Waterloo Terrace Regency Hotel 1986 The Wellesley Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying up to 330 mm.
Tinakori Road, Wellington
Reference: 1/2-052469-F
Description: Looking south west along Tinakori Road, Wellington, with the Shepherds' Arms Hotel on the left. Two other buildings are alongside the hotel and carts and horses can also be seen. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Shepherds' Arms Hotel in Thorndon
Date: [ca 1895]
From: McKay, Alexander, 1841-1917 : Photographs
Reference: 1/2-021850-F
Description: View looking from Tinakori Road, toward the Shepherds' Arms Hotel in Thorndon, with a glimpse of Wellington harbour in the background. Photographed by Alexander McKay, circa 1895. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Tinakori Road with Shepherds' Arms Hotel, Thorndon, Wellington
Date: [ca 1890s]
From: McKay, Alexander, 1841-1917 : Photographs
Reference: 1/2-021857-F
Description: Tinakori Road showing Gillespie's Shepherds' Arms Hotel, Thorndon, Wellington. Photograph taken by Alexander McKay. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Old Wellington hotels and The Wets and the drys (manuscripts)
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).