Willis Street

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Artist unknown :[Wellington scenes. 1890s].

Reference: E-278-q-003-06

Description: View of Willis Street looking north-east. The premises of N J Isaacs are in the immediate foreground on the right. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photoengraving 74 x 122 mm

Date: [19--]

From: Hunter family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0049-137

Description: Undated manuscripts articles etc. Includes notes on Willis Street, Tollemaches; notes on Lower Hutt; New Zealand birds; New Zealand Company ships - Oriental, Adelaide, Aurora; Bishop Selwyn; list of directors of the New Zealand Company; Port Nicholson; reminiscences of old Willis Street; opening of Barrett's Hotel; Government Commissioners' decision,; G F Angas on Wellington, 1845; arrival of Samuel C Brees, surveyor-general of NZ Company; account of a sale of cattle at Bethune & Hunter's auction mart, 25 Dec 1841; naming of Hunter Street after Sir George Hunter; naming of Island Bay (Sir George Hunter proprietor of the estate); account of first race in New Zealand held at Te Aro pa; statement discrediting Governor Hobson's low opinion of Port Nicholson; founding of Wellington Chamber of Commerce, 1856 with names of presidents, 1856-1868 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 1956 - 1957

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-079-018/021

Description: Includes floor plans, elevations and window details. Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying around 580 x 760 mm.

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

Date: 1967, 1974-1975, 1990

From: Robinson, Peter Franklin, active 1970-2017: Colour slides of Wellington City and suburbs, and railways images

Reference: PA12-0075

Description: Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1928 - 1932

By: Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975

Reference: A-227-012

Description: St Peter's and surrounding buildings, looking up Ghuznee Street, Wellington with Willis Street and the Kelburn hill in the background Inscriptions: Signed: Cranleigh Barton Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 287 x 195 mm Provenance: Presented by Cranleigh Barton, Esq., Christchurch, October 1968

Date: [ca 1940]

From: Paddy, Laurence George Malvern, 1906?-1971: Photographs relating to the Lauri Paddi Band

Reference: PA1-q-182-25-2

Description: Lauri Paddi Band, Majestic Cabaret, Wellington, circa 1940. Back row: Alan Brown, Jim Gower, Jack Roberts. Front: Bill Pritchard, Lauri Paddi, Bob Girvan, Lolita, Stan Grant. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Date estimated by cataloguer. Location and band members identified by Library client. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 8.9 x 14 cm, on album page

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

Reference: EP-2492-1/2-G

From: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988 :Photographs of New Zealand buildings

Reference: 1/4-075246-F

Date: June 1984, January-May 1981, October-November 1980

From: Robinson, Peter Franklin, active 1970-2017: Colour slides of Wellington City and suburbs, and railways images

Reference: PAColl-1278

Description: Quantity: 18 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1938

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-0154

Description: Site plan showing Willis Street, with a long section, the doctor's house on the left with his garage on the right, the building housing his private hospital in the centre. The area behind the buildings possibly includes a pergola, since the plan shows a garden area with an octagonal structure with an entrance on the north face. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil on tracing paper, 665 x 365 mm.

Date: 1928

Reference: Plans-80-1286

Description: Shows plan of roof which includes details of wash house and basement which gives details of destructor and boiler. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - This contract is the one referred to in the agreement dated [16th May 1928] between The Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd Signed James Fletcher. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on cream paper

Date: 1940 - 1941

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-021-020/021

Description: House plans including floor plans, sections and elevations. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying.

Date: 1950

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-2401

Description: Shows floor plan of chapel bounded by billiard room, passage, dining room and light area. Also includes a section showing altar area with cross above. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on oil-impregnated paper, 560 x 700 mm.

Date: 1931

From: Various architects :[Plans and specifications for buildings relating to St John's Church, Willis Street, Wellington. 19--].

By: Gray Young, Morton & Young (Firm)

Reference: Plans-95-055-01

Description: Contains: Locality plan, scale 40 ft to 1 inch; 2 loose pages entitled: Specification and description of work to be done in the installation of electric light and heating at new social room at present being erected for St John's Young Men's Bible Class, Willis Street, Wellington; Instructions to persons tendering; Specification of Labour and Materials required...(10 pages). Instructions to persons tendering advise returning instructions to F.H. Seber, Chemist, Willis St, opposite St John's Church. Accompanies plan at Plans-95-055-02. Inscriptions: (On cover): [Title]; (At top of cover title): Original copy, to be deposited with St Johns Church [31/3/32?].; (On back cover): B.C. Social room 1931/32 Dated with reference to inscription on back cover. Frank H Seber is listed in Wises directories as a chemist in Willis Street in the period 1930-35. Quantity: 1 booklet of specifications.. Physical Description: Typescript, with one ink plan, on 14 pages, 12 of which are bound into dark grey folder, 350 x 263 mm. Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts MS-Group-268, in about 1994. Received in the Library in about 1982..

Date: 9 July 1975

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1975/2775

Description: Posters on the windows of the old Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, corner of Manners and Willis Streets, Wellington, advertising concerts by Split Enz and Bill Cosby. The hotel closed in 1973. Photographed 9 July 1975 by an unknown Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: [ca 1980s-1990s]

From: Shephard, Wayne, fl 1990-2001 :Photographs of Wellington buildings

Reference: PA12-6061

Description: Photographs of buildings at 2-52 Willis Street, Wellington, taken ca 1980s-1990s by Wayne Shephard. Includes views of Hugh Wright's, Kean's Building, Caledonian Chambers, Carlton Hotel, Lamphouse Chambers, The Barretts, and Morrison & Gilbert. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparency slides

Date: 1860 - 1880

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :Album. [1860s?]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: E-297-018

Description: St John's Presbyterian Church, Willis Street in the foreground, viewed from behind and above, and the view looking down Dixon Street towards Mount Victoria. Te Aro Hotel and Jameson's Cooperative Store are clearly identified on opposite corners of Willis and Dixon Streets. Photograph numbered554 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph 135 x 205 mm glued to album page 177 x 225 mm

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

Reference: Plans-91-2404/2405

Description: Shows basement plan (with bowling alley), ground floor plan (with gymnasium), attic floor plan (with bedrooms). Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on oil impregnated paper, 470 x 645 mm.

Date: ca 1900

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-020231-G

Description: Willis Street, Wellington, circa 1900. Shows the Melbourne Hotel in the left foreground, and a sign advertising Turnbull & Jones, electrical engineers, on the right. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. The Melbourne Hotel burnt down in 1901. Turnbull and Jones were at 42 Willis Street. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative