Gorges - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1860

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-023

Description: Shows a man on horseback seen from behind, following a path along the left hand side of the Hutt River, at Upper Hutt. The banks on the left are steep, but the right side slope is gentler and covered in bush. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 175 x 268 mm

Date: [ca 1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6965

Description: Four views: two of trotting races at Addingtion Race Course; one of houses and buildings at the mouth of Ngauranga Gorge looking down towards the harbour with the Russian gun emplacement visible on the left; and one from behind The Terrace Gaol looking out over Welllington harbour. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059134 to 059136 Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-187-052

Description: A narrow road beneath a rocky cliff, with a single figure walking away towards the gorge of the Hutt River. Tall trees lean over the road from the top of the cliff on the left Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Initialled: W.S. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 130 x 96 mm

Date: 27 October 1847

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-466-011

Description: Shows two men fishing on the banks of the Hutt River. The river winds to the left of the scene, with the hills of the gorge rising either side. Two tall trees, with straight trunks, tower over the fishing men. 'Taine's section' refers to the land owned by James John Taine (1817-1914), who resided in the Hutt until about 1847, when this scene was drawn Swainson drew several different views of the Hutt Valley gorges Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Entrance to the second valley. Taine's section [in ink]; Recto - bottom right - W Swainson / 27 Oct 1847 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 195 x 235 mm (sight) Provenance: Provenance prior to purchase unknown

Date: 1 Jan 1939

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

Reference: PAColl-7796-72

Description: Photograph of the gravel road through the Ngauranga Gorge in Wellington, showing telegraph poles and a small shed, taken 1 January 1939 by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post. Other - Note on back of print reads: `no print in the EP Collection at 5/10/04' Inscriptions: Verso - bottom centre - Ngahauranga Gorge 1/1/39; Verso - bottom centre - J.C.E.T Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.6 x 16.5 cm

Date: [ca 1929]

From: Just, F R: Two albums of photographs and captions relating to the Just family and 119 negatives taken by his father in the 1920s and 1930s of around Wellington and the Bell Bus Company

Reference: 1/2-071472-F

Description: Bell Bus Company bus making its way down the Ngaio Gorge Road, Ngaio, Wellington. Photographed by Frank Richard Just, circa 1929. Note on back of file print reads: Looking down the Ngaio Gorge Rd (info from F R Just) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1920]

Reference: 1/2-070117-F

Description: View of a car making its way along the Ngaio Gorge Road, Ngaio, Wellington. Taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1920. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative