Scorpio's Welsh Restaurant (Wellington, N.Z.)

Date: 2005

By: Scorpio's Welsh Restaurant (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-2005-01

Description: Each two-month opening shows a photograph of a dish served at "New Zealand's only Welsh bar and restaurant", run by Jo and Mike Howard, at "The middle of the road, Cambridge/Kent Tce". Dishes include: Feta and pepper beef roll, Lemon and asparagus turkey breast, Chilled out salmon, Fillet of lamb with anchovy sauce and couscous pancakes, Roast loin of pork with chilli apple sauce, Vegetable combination fritters. Verso of each page gives the recipe for the dish shown and hints on cooking pork, beef and lamb. Quantity: 1 calendar. Physical Description: Photolithographs on calendar pages, each 455 x 305 mm. Provenance: Donated in 2005.

Date: 2006

By: Scorpio's Welsh Restaurant (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-2006-03

Description: Each two-month opening shows a photograph of a dish served at "New Zealand's only Welsh bar and restaurant", run by Jo and Mike Howard, at "The middle of the road, Cambridge/Kent Tce". Dishes include: Blueberry bacon sauce with pork steaks, grilled fish with herbs and grilled chillies, teriyaki steaks and tossed vegetables, chicken with lemon and caper sauce, lamb rack with ginger noodles, salmon and horseradish bagel burgers. Verso of each page gives the recipe for the dish shown and hints on cooking pork, beef and lamb. Quantity: 1 calendar. Physical Description: Photolithographs on calendar pages, each 455 x 305 mm. Provenance: Donated by Linda Bevan-Smith in 2006.

Date: 2002 - 2003

By: Scorpio's Welsh Restaurant (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-2003-01

Description: Each two-month opening shows a photograph of a dish served at "New Zealand's only Welsh restaurant" at 163, The Parade, Island Bay, run by Jo and Mike Howard. Dishes include: Lamb roast with garlic and rosemary, Millennium roast chicken, Crumbed mussels with fresh vegetable stacks, Crusted corned beef, Oyster fillet steak on coconut rice cakes, Wrapped pork with pesto and croutons. Verso of each page gives the recipe for the dish shown and hints on cooking pork, beef and lamb. Quantity: 1 calendar. Physical Description: Photolithographs on calendar pages, each 455 x 305 mm. Provenance: Donated anonymously in January 2003.

Date: 2001 - 2002

By: Scorpio's Welsh Restaurant (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-2002-05

Description: Each two-month opening shows a photograph of a dish served at "New Zealand's only Welsh restaurant" at 163, The Parade, Island Bay, run by Jo and Mike Howard. Dishes include: Fruity passion sauce over pork; Sea-meal stack; Beef and mushroom casserole; Veal pot roast; Pineapple and orange duck casserole; Chilli mince. Verso of each page gives the recipe for the dish shown and hints on cooking pork, beef and lamb. Quantity: 1 calendar. Physical Description: Photolithographs on calendar pages, each 455 x 305 mm. Provenance: Donated by Linda Bevan Smith in 2002.

Date: 28 Nov 1998

From: Welsh Society of Wellington Oral History Project

By: Watts, Edmund Brian, 1942-

Reference: OHInt-0728/14

Description: Brian Edmund Watts, born Swansea 1942. Describes Swansea with its industrial community. Talks of his employment and mentions, coal, steel, chemicals, petrochemicals nearby and Swansea University which he attended. Discusses Welsh language and gives reasons for not learning it. Backgrounds decision to come to New Zealand and job opportunity as Technical manager with BP. Describes the job opportunity of examining the potential of manufacturing petrochemicals from Maui and Epuni gas fields. Recalls arriving in Wellington 1983 and learning about the Welsh Society. Refers to Jim Thomas, Jean and Phillip Liner, Margot Griffith, Patricia Watts, Billy Pearson, David Hughes and Bob and Linda Bevan Smith. Describes Welsh Society activities over the years. Explains the National Gymanfa Ganu and describes what it means for him. Describes the Festival of Music at the Cathedral, Wellington and the invitation to the Welsh Society to hold a Gymanfa Ganu with Philip Walsh, the musical director of the Cathedral and the Orpheus Choir. Refers to Ray Henwood. Also recalls visit by Daffydd Wigley, MP, Plaid Cymru, and his wife, Elenor Bennett, (Harpist) who played in a concert arranged by the Society in the National Library auditorium. Refers to Scorpios restaurant in Wellington, supporters of the Society. Discusses the changing needs of people coming to New Zealand and gives the examples of those from the Middle Eastern countries with a need to converse in their own tongue. Comments on the Welsh people being bilingual with an emphasis on the English language. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - David Hughes Venue - 31 Greyfriars Crescent, Tawa Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011914-011915 ; OHLC-005972-005972 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4102.