Castle, Mavis Beryl, 1896-1968

Date: 1931

From: Castle family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1613

Description: Album relating to journey from New Zealand to England via the Suez Canal. Includes photographs of floral tributes to Zillah prior to her departure; embarkation in Wellington July 1931; Voyage to Sydney; Sydney parks, buildings, zoos, beaches; Dixon family in Sydney; Melbourne gardens, buildings; Adelaide buildings, parks, gardens; King's Park, Perth, buildings, opening pearls, Serpentine Falls and Western Australian aboriginals; Colombo, Ceylon, catamarans, coconut palms, native quarters, rickshaws, High cast Indian girl; Aden; Red Sea; Suez Canal; Bedoin Sheik; Ismalia; Port Tewfik; Port Said; Voyage on 'Balranald'; Fancy dress and deck tennis, and lifeboat drills on ship; Australian heavyweight George Cook training on ship; Malta; Gibraltar; Spainish coast; First sight of England, Chalk cliffs of Dover. In 1931 Zillah Castle received a violin scholarship to the Royal College of Music, London, where she went chaperoned by Mavis, her eldest sister. They returned in 1934. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 18 x 30 cm

Date: 1932-1933

From: Castle family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1615

Description: Includes photographs of Kensington gardens; Hampton Court; Trinity College, Oxford; Kew gardens; Wilson's at Berkhamsted; Dog cemetery at Hyde Park; Box Hill in Surrey; Davis Cup matches between Australia and England in 1933; Virginia Water; buildings and castles in Warwick and Kenilworth; William Shakespeare's birth place, Stratford-on-Avon; Fire brigade display in Chelsea; Zillah and Mavis on ship (possibly their return voyage in 1934) In 1931 Zillah Castle received a violin scholarship to the Royal College of Music, London, where she went chaperoned by Mavis, her eldest sister. They returned in 1934. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 19.5 x 28 cm

Date: [1910s-1980s]

From: Castle family :Photographs

By: Spencer Digby Studios; Jauncey, Philip Henry, 1902-1982

Reference: PAColl-9642

Description: Photographs relating to the Castle family. Includes photographs of an organ at the Whanganui Museum, Wellington Zoo, voyage to England, views of London and other parts of England. Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s). 19 item(s) of photographic ephemera.

Date: 1933

From: Castle family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1616

Description: Includes photographs primarily of Cornwall, England, dwellings, people, towns, villages, coastlines and rock formations. In 1931 Zillah Castle received a violin scholarship to the Royal College of Music, London, where she went chaperoned by Mavis, her eldest sister. They returned in 1934. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 19.5 x 28 cm

Date: 1933

From: Castle family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1612

Description: Includes photographs of Davis Cup matches at Wimbledon; Battersea General Hospital; Milton Statue; Petticoat Lane markets; Viriginia Water; Warwick Castle, Oldest street in Warwick; Kenilworth Castle; Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon; Ann Hathway's Cottage; River cruise on Stratford-on-Avon; At Chiltonden, Hawkhurst, Kent (Hardcastle family); Blackberrying; Hop picking; Tenterden Parish Church, Kent; The Bryants with Zillah, Tenterden; Misses Hardcastle's; Battle Abbey; General Hospital, St James; Westminster; Miss Guerin, Dulwich Art Gallery; Dulwich Park; Highgate Hospital, including isolation Dept; Waterloo Park; Cambridge; and other views around London. Also includes an envelope commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Mutiny on the Botany, photograph of a string orchestra (Ronald Castle in front middle), and a pharmaceutical flyer for Cyclonal Sodium [anaesthetic] In 1931 Zillah Castle received a violin scholarship to the Royal College of Music, London, where she went chaperoned by Mavis, her eldest sister. They returned in 1934. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 13 x 19 cm

Date: [ca 1900-1940]

From: Castle family : Personal papers and Castle museum report

Reference: MS-Papers-6382-1

Description: Comprises correspondence between family members including letter from Mavis to her mother; and letters from Nell to Una, William Tuck to Mona, C S Low to Mrs Castle, and Gladys to Mavis; education certificates and reports for various Castle family members; vaccination notices; cartoon of Castle as Mayor; poems by Ronald B Castle, `The Brewer's soliloquy' and `The Land of Tane' (1940); and other miscellaneous papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1931-May 1932

From: Castle family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1614

Description: Includes photographs of views around London, and various parts of England; Zillah with violin case outside Royal College; first snow in London; visiting family friends; children receiving oranges and lemons at St Clement Danes Church. In 1931 Zillah Castle received a violin scholarship to the Royal College of Music, London, where she went chaperoned by Mavis, her eldest sister. They returned in 1934. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 19.5 x 28 cm

Date: 1952-1955

From: New Zealand Ex Libris Society : Records

Reference: 88-084-1/09B

Description: Members names entered in name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: January 1968

By: Maclennan, Stewart Bell, 1903-1973; Castle, Maureen, 1933-2018

Reference: D-045-003

Description: Selection of musical instruments collected by Ronald and Zillah Castle: three stringed instruments, including a hurdy gurdy, a viol da gamba and a viola d'amore; brass and wood wind instruments; and a harpsichord, and a spinet. Attached to the back of the framing is a hand-written note that reads: "Painted for Miss Zillah Castle at the request of Miss Mavis Castle. Stewart Maclennan January 1968". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Stewart Maclennan / January 1968 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) framed. Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 800 x 640 mm (in matt)

Date: 1870 - 1960

From: The Graham Bookplate Collection; bookplates collected by David H Graham. [1500-1950s]

By: Blackwell, Victor, active 1940s?; Calder, Ian Fortune, 1910-1998; Carty, D A, active 1940-1950s; Clapson, Mabel Willard, active 1941-50; Clark, Barbara, active 1933; Clark, Russell Stuart Cedric, 1905-1966; Coates, A, active 1951; Collins, Raymond James George, 1898-1965; Holloway, Ronald, 1909-2003; Hutton, John Campbell, 1906-1978; Lovell-Smith, Colin Stuart, 1894-1960; Main, William, 1934-2023; Penlington, Cecil Spenser, -1964; Stout, James, 1904-1968; Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964; Tilsley, Lydia Louise, 1898-1983; Wiseman, Hilda Alexandra, 1894-1982

Reference: BOOKPLATES-GRAHAM-NZ-C

Description: Arranged in boxes alphabetically according to the name of the person for whom the plate was made. Contains plates made for: A E Caddick (by Colin Lovell-Smith) Rev David Calder (by his son Ian Fortune Calder) Caledonian Society Wellington, Kathleen Campbell 1936 (by Louise Tilsley) Carmelite Monastery (by R Holloway, 1951) D A Carty (by himself) M B Castle (by William Main) R B Castle (by E Mervyn Taylor) Z V Castle (by William Main) George Law Cawkwell (by R Holloway) Thomas Camberlin Chamberlin (by W & A Mussett, Lincoln's Inn) Frederick Revans Chapman, Henry Chapman, Stan Chapman (shows Maori carved box), Christchurch Club of Printing House Craftsmen (by James Stout, 1952) Christ's College 1938 The Churchill Auction of Books and Pictures 1942 (by Hilda Wiseman) Mabel Willard Clapson (2 different by M herself?) J Boyd Clark (by C S Penlington) J J Clark by Barbara Clark 1933) Russell Clark (by himself 1931) Patricia S Johanna Clarke (by Ron Holloway, the Griffin Press) Dr J McMurray Cole, College House Library (by Russell Clark 1950) R J G Collins (by himself, 1923) Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition Edward Tennyson Conolly (ca 1903?) Ashley Cook (by Hilda Wiseman, 1951?) S Arthur Cook (by Adele Younghusband 1952) H G Coombs (by Adele Younghusband 1952) Bryan Coote (designed by Victor William Garden Cowie- Bishop of Auckland Graham Crossley (by John Hutton 1930-31) Adrian Patrick Curran (Rev) (by Ronald Holloway, 1900s) Frank I Cooze (by himself 1925) William Charles Cotton (1800s) William Garden Cowie, Bishop of Auckland (1800s) Graham Crossley (by John Hutton, 1930-1931) Quantity: 39 b&w art print(s) on bookplates.. Physical Description: Engravings, etchings Provenance: Donated by David Graham in the 1950s.

Date: 1920-1932

From: Alexander Turnbull Library (Wellington) : Correspondence files

Reference: MS-Papers-0181-019

Description: Names of some identifiable correspondents entered in Name Field. Also: W J Carlisle, Christchurch, 1923 (re George Willmer); Nancy Carlyon, Wellington, 1931; C E Carrington, 1925; Governor George R Carter, Hawaii, 1920; J Castle, 1923; Mavis B Castle; Una D Castle; J G Castle, Heretaunga School, Havelock North, 1926; G G Caughley, Waipukurau, 1931; Cawthron Institute, 1921 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1929]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-8983-28

Description: Members of the Castle family, from Newtown, Wellington. Left to right, back: Ronald, Raymond and Mervyn. Front: Mona, John Castle senior and Mavis. Photograph taken by S P Andrew Ltd, circa 1929. Publication note - Published in the New Zealand Free Lance, 11 September 1929 Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Most of the members of this family were pharmacists. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 12.8 x 20.3 cm