Gas manufacture and works - New Zealand - Wellington Region

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

Reference: EP-0439-1/2-G

Description: From box containing EP-0434 to 0455 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca 1884

Reference: 1/2-004538-F

Description: Looking across Te Aro from Mount Victoria towards Kelburn showing the railway across the harbour for the trains carrying infill from the quarry at the end of Oriental Bay which was then dumped in the inland water. The gas works on the waterfront can also be seen. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

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

Reference: EP-0438-1/2-G

Description: From box containing EP-0434 to 0455 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1933

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Mi/1933/Acc.10236

Description: Plan of the gas works with the entrance off Miramar Avenue. Sites of the foreman's house, stores, yards, office, carpenter, workshop, retort house, coal stores, condensers, oil storage and tar tanks, liquor tank, the coke plant and bunkers, engine rooms, de-tarrer, pumps, purifiers, garage, firebrick plant, C.W.G. holder and plant, fresh and saltwater tanks, calorimeter and valve houses and the gas tanks are named. The toe of the hill is marked. Other Titles - Wellington Gas Company Limited, works plan showing [location of plant] Initials on bottom right corner: H.P. 19.5.33 Handwritten note on verso under linen backing, Mr. Gordon Harcourt, Brandon House Other title assigned by cataloguer Scale of original: [1:480] Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Duplicated copy, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 47 x 123.8 cm.

Date: [between 1858-1887]

Reference: PAColl-6114

Description: Comprises: Hutt Road in 1868; Queen's Wharf ca 1860s; Wellington circa 1887; Thorndon circa 1860s; St John's Presbyterian Church, Wellington, 1858. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/4-016071, 1/2-075008 and 1/2-091405 Quantity: 5 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1900

Reference: 1/2-004218-F

Description: Wellington harbour looking towards the wharves and Te Aro with Oriental Bay on the left and the gas works in the centre. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

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

Reference: EP-0454-1/2-G

Description: From box containing EP-0434 to 0455 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1930s]

Reference: PAColl-6944

Description: Views of various buildings in Wellington including: three of the Victoria Laundry Co Ltd and Mike Walsh, tobacconist probably on Molesworth Street with a bill board advertising a show at the Opera House called So Long Letty; two of Scots College; a house either under construction or renovation; a public hall; and others of rather delapidated houses in other parts of the city. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-057714 to 057726 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1969

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook]. 1968-1969.

Reference: E-464-f-014

Description: Cars parked outside the Awa dairy in Miramar. Shows two gasometers in middle distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink, in sketchbook 320 x 410 mm

Date: [ca 1898]

By: Bower, George, 1826-1911

Reference: Plans-80-1031

Description: Front elevation and transverse section of buildings and section of gas-holder. Recorded as the work of 'George Bower | Engineer and gas-work contractor | Works - St Neots, Hunts. | Depot & office 220-222 Gt. Portland Street | London (W)'. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - H.E. Manning | 32 Bond Street | Wgtn [in ink] Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, 650 x 965 mm

Date: [ca 1915-1925]

Reference: PAColl-6889

Description: 5 views of Miramar Gas Works and the streets surrounding it including carts being loaded from overhead hoppers; three of the Hutt River mouth; one of railway yards with a gas works in the background; a view from The Terrace looking out over the harbour with gardens in the foreground; and one of Island Bay looking east across The Parade. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044251 to 044261 and 106035 Quantity: 12 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: Between 1923 and 1930

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2023-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over Lyall Bay on the left with Evans bay on the far left. A road curves around the bay in the foreground. Wellington Gasworks visible on the edge of Evans Bay. Taken by Robert Percy Moore Inscriptions: No marginal notes - Lyall Bay Wellington Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose nitrate negative 19.7 x 99.3 cm

Date: ca 1920s

Reference: 1/4-016575

Description: Te Aro Gas Works to the right of the image with waste ground surrounding it and houses on the hill behind. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1956

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

Reference: EP/1956/0624-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: From 1911 to 1949

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-007

Description: Black & white photographs of the Wellington area, Vol 1 (images 1-240), taken by G L Adkin between 1911 and 1949. Earlier images include the house Fern Hill (at 324 The Terrace), and views from the house; Kelburn Cable Car tunnel, and view of the cable car from Kelburn Park; Wellington Botanic Garden; inner city views of Willis St., Lambton Quay (1913); Lyall Bay, Kilbirnie isthmus, Wellington Heads, Oriental Bay (1913); Harbour and city; swimming carnival at Island Bay; city from Mt Cook trig station (1918); panorama of Thorndon with Pipitea Point reclamation from the Nth end of Barnard St (1923); interior view of the Wellington City Corporation Trams Shed at Newtown; Kemp Point Powerhouse, Evans Bay; Miramar Gas Works (1923); Wider views of the city with Tinakori Ridge from Roseneath, Oriental Bay, Lyall Bay (1926); loading the Maheno (1926). Laying Foundation Stone of new railway station by the Duke of Gloucester, showing steel frame of the building under construction (17 December 1934). Views around the city in 1936, including Worser Bay, Breaker Bay, Dorset Point, Queens Drive, the city (panorama from Karepa St, Brooklyn); "wilds of Wellington" Mitchelltown, Highbury, Taitville, and Kelburn (from Karepa St); snow on hills and at Mt Kaukau (2 August 1936). Centennial Exhibition (6 March 1940). Views around the bays in 1948, Lyall Bay, Evans Bay, Kilbirnie, Eastbourne, Days Bay, Lowry Bay. Comparative views from Mt Alfred (1 taken in 1948, the other in 1905). Pamir sailing ship at Aotea Quay (December 1948); railway yards; Kaiwharawhara Gorge (1948); and the first visit of the Solent flying boat Ararangi to Evans Bay, October 1949.

Date: 1924

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-0941-F

Description: Panoramic view of Miramar Peninsula with oil storage tanks (light colour) and gas storage tanks (dark-coloured, gasometers) in centre of image, and the Burnham Wharf below to the right. Photograph taken by R P Moore in 1924. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Miramar No 372A 1924" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 114.8 cm

Date: 1968-1971

By: Wellington Gas Company

Reference: MSY-6872-6874

Description: Daily meter readings and other statistical records concerned with the operation of the Miramar Gas Works Quantity: 3 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (36 cm; various bindings)

Date: 1997 - 1998

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

By: Synaxon Hill Group Architects

Reference: Plans-2007-030-0591

Description: Shows a floor plan and four elevations of a one-roomed building. Collected by architect Martin Hill as part of Project 787. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil drawing on draughting paper, 420 x 595 mm.

Date: January 1963

From: Smith, Alan Eldridge, 1945- : Collection

By: Smith, Alan Eldridge, 1945-

Reference: 35mm-02007-16-F

Description: Miramar Avenue, running through Miramar Cutting, showing the railway tracks to the gas works, disused since 1940. Photographed in January 1963 by Alan Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1950 to 1957

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-014

Description: Adkin album. Wellington (2), nos. 241-441. Views of Wellington taken between 1950 and 1957. Includes harbour swim event at Evans Bay, 26 February 1950; speedboat contests at Evans Bay, 4 March 1950; Patent slip and the Union Steam Ship Co's wharf at Evans Bay; tulip Sunday at the Wellington Botanic Garden (15 October 1950); Evans Bay Yacht Club yard in use as a temporary base for Solent flying boats with the Ararangi at a mooring; various views of reclamation undertaken by TEAL for their flying boat service at Evans Bay, and flying boats. Many of the images in this album are linked with Evans Bay, as Adkin was living at 424 Evans Bay Parade in the 1950s, several images showing the house. Views of Wellington from the Mount Victoria lookout and from the Tinakori Ridge Radio Station, in 1952; the old Robert Hannah residence in Boulcott Street; views of the inner city including the upper end of Ghuznee St., Upper Willis St., the Children's Dental Clinic. Image no. 313 shows a house at 214 Upper Willis Street (known as Restwyn), taken in Feb 1953, while image no. 434 shows the same site in January 1957 after the house had been demolished. Numbers of images show preparations and decorations for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. There are many photographs of preparation for extending the airport at Rongotai, showing Moa Point Hill in course of destruction to provide spoil for reclamation, and also Rongotai Ridge, with one view of a house being moved from the ridge, also showing development of the breakwater at Moa Point, all taken betwen 1953 and 1957. A 1954 image shows an extension to the Town Hall under construction for municipal offices in December 1953; the Hinemoa at No. 1 Ferry Wharf; preparations and decorations for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in December 1953, including decorations at the Railway Station, Defence Stores Building in Featherston St., Kirkcaldie & Stains, James Smiths Corner, DIC, and the GPO. Image taken in March 1956 shows a house with turret on the corner of Upper Willis St and Aro St (a house which was shown in CD Barraud's painting of 1877). Views of yachting in the harbour, Ward Island, and the Eastbourne seawall. Outcast yacht is pictured.