Kent Terrace

Date: 1923

By: Blake, Edward McCallum, 1865-1929

Reference: Plans-80-1690

Description: Shows foundation plan, elevation of hall windows, and details of hall and class rooms. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - E M Blake, F R I B A Aug. 1923; Recto - bottom right - Dr J S Elliott Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on grey paper

Date: [ca 1980s-1990s]

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

Reference: PA12-6001

Description: Photographs of buildings on Kelvin Grove, Kensington Street, Knigges Avenue, and Kent Terrace, Wellington, taken ca 1980s-1990s by Wayne Shephard. Includes views of Taj Mahal and Embassy Theatre. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparency slides

Date: [ca 1980s-1990s]

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

Reference: PA12-6002

Description: Photographs of buildings at 14-89 Kent Terrace, Wellington, taken ca 1980s-1990s by Wayne Shephard. Includes views of Paula Hunt Dance Academy, Shelly Imports Ltd, Elliott House, and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparency slides

Date: [between 1907-1919]

From: Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church :Photographs of the Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church

By: Hardie Shaw Studios

Reference: PAColl-D-0034

Description: Formal group photograph of a large gathering of young men and women, also a few young boys and girls and adult males (possibly office bearers) with Rev Elliott seated in the middle. The group are members of former Bible classes. They are all quite formally dressed - the females in skirts and white blouses, and the males all wearing ties. Photograph taken by The Hardie Shaw Studios, Wellington, possibly on Rev Elliott's retirement in 1919 Published in `Fifty year ago and today, 1886-1936. Jubilee Souvenir, Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church, Wellington, NZ' and entitled "Former Bible classes". Further copies of this image at PAColl-D-0035 & PAColl-D-0036 Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: 27.5 x 36 cm mounted on card

Date: 1969

By: Gabites and Beard (Firm)

Reference: A-367-035/044

Description: Details of alterations to Unity Theatre, 1 Kent Terrace, Wellington. Includes a plan of the Aro Street studio and clubrooms by George Eiby, 6 June 1964, published in a small pamphlet, showing ground floor and basement plans, longitudinal section, and section through stage and basement. Folder also contains correspondence from Building Branch, City Engineer's Department, Wellington City Council, dated 10th April 1969 re permits etc. Quantity: 10 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on pink celluloid paper and cream paper

Date: 1923

By: Blake, Edward McCallum, 1865-1929

Reference: Plans-80-1686

Description: Shows upper plan Seating 235 ground floor hall; seating 80 gallery and total seating 315 of hall. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - E M Blake, F R I B A April 24. 1923 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing on greaseproof paper backed with cream paper

Date: 1923

Reference: Plans-80-1693

Description: Overall plan, with colour notes attached Colour charts, pale gumleaf and tapestry green attached to side of plan Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing on paper

Date: 16 December 1996

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

By: Reid, Philip John, 1954-

Reference: EP/1996/3620-F

Description: Maori film director, Barry Barclay, encamped in Kent and Cambridge Terraces, Wellington, protesting against racism outside the office of New Zealand on Air. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid on the 16th of December 1996. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negative, 35mm

Date: Aug 2001

From: Rhodes, Valerie June, 1932- : Spencer and Rhodes family histories

Reference: MSX-8196

Description: Reminiscence of this early years growing up in Mount Victoria, Wellington, and teenage years spent in Lyall Bay, Wellington. Describes the family homes at Derby Street and Kent Terrace, Mount Victoria; holidays at Hihitahi; childhood entertainment; war years and visit of the Pamir; hobbies (reading, model-making); years at Clyde Quay School (includes photo of Std 1 taken in 1939) and time spent at Otaki Health Camp. Move to Queens Drive, Lyall Bay and years at Wellington College. Discusses first years of his working life and ends with his move to Upper Hutt as an optometrist with Cocks & Newall, and meeting his wife Valerie Spencer in 1954. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: Surname index at back.

Date: 1983

By: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: C-106-007/012

Description: Manners Street from Perrett's Corner, 1908 or 1909; The intersection of Courtney Place and Kent Terrace, 1911 or 1912; Basin Reserve, 1914; The intersection of Riddiford Street, Russell Street and Mansfield Street, Newtown Wellington, between 1910 and 1915; Oriental Bay kiosk, 1914; Balaena Bay, Wellington, 1914. Title from container, which also bears descriptive notes. Other Titles - Sydney Charles Smith (1888-1972). Alexander Turnbull Library photographic posters Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 6 photolithographs 254 x 345 mm, on sheets 400 x 450 mm, in container 390 x 530 mm. Provenance: Acquired through Legal Deposit.

Date: 1968

From: Toomath Wilson Irvine Anderson, architects :[Architectural plans. 1955-1988].

By: Toomath & Wilson Ltd

Reference: Plans-2005-057-0241

Description: Includes site plan, floor plan and written specifications. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil drawing on tracing paper, 560 x 745 mm.

Date: [Between 1930 and 1934]

By: New Zealand Railways; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm); Mitchell, Lindsay, active 1930-1942

Reference: PA1-f-058

Description: Album of publicity photographs including designs for advertisements for use in the new Zealand Railway Magazine; designs for posters for use in Railways Ticket Offices and one for a large neon lighting sign "Suggested `Claude Neon' Display for New Zealand Railway Publicity Department, Wellington. `Travel by train'". One photograph is entitled "`Post' corner 1880. Now site of King's Chambers". A number of images show a [Labour Day?] parade of marching people, and floats some of which are advertising NZ Railways holiday destinations, with slogans reading `Come to Rotorua', `Come to Waitomo', `Come to The Chateau Tongariro'. There are designs of title pages for the New Zealand Railways Magazine; a view of a commemorative key with a sheaf of corn on the handle in a presentation box; and designs for a programme of events surround the laying of the foundation stone for the new Government Railway Station, Wellington, N.Z. by HRH the Duke of Gloucester, December 17th 1934. These are followed by photographs taken during the Duke's tour of New Zealand, including crowd scenes in Wellington, Maori celebrations of welcome at Ngaruawahia, and scenes in the Rotorua thermal area. There are a few individual and group portraits of the management and administrative staff of New Zealand Railways, most unidentified. Most of the images relate to the 1930s, but there are a few copies of earlier photographs. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, maroon spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C4'; 42 x 59 cm

Date: 1915

From: Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church :Photographs of the Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church

By: Spicer, Alan, 1863?-1923

Reference: PAColl-D-0033

Description: S McDowall, A Milne, R Johnson, J W Jack, H Horlor, H R Tolley, J C McDowall, W Craig, J Bingham, W H Godier (organist), T Graham, R Scott, A J McEldowney, W Miller, J S Dunnett, J S Elliott MD, G B Gould, J H Barton, G V R Fraser, Sister Elizabeth (Deaconess), D Robertson, Rev J K Elliott, W M Hannay, W H Houl, J H Nancarrow, A W McGregor, E C Jack, J Tamblyn, C S Falconer, M Fraser, L Allen. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title and names of those in the photograph Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 41.5 x 57 cm mounted on card with mat

From: Estate of Mr and Mrs E S Knight :Photographs of Wellington

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: PA1-o-252

Description: Photograph album of views of Wellington, ranging from copies of early paintings from the 1840s, and early photographs up to the 1870s, to a series of postcards from the 1920s. Most of the early images have clear descriptions, giving year made, location, and in some cases further information about buildings that can be seen. For example, one view shows Kebble's house, now the site of the Grand Opera House. Views in the postcards are identified, but no dates are given. Most of the postcard views were taken by Sydney Charles Smith Inscriptions: Album page - `To E.S.K. with all good wishes for the 8th Nov. 1925, from a wellwisher' (illuminated inscription inside front cover) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Black album, entitled `Photographs'; `E.S.K.' lettered in lower right-hand corner; 26 x 33 cm

Date: 2003

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

By: Mathie, Heather Catherine, 1971-

Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-2003-01

Description: Shows an arrangement of text with an underlying faint photograph of the Embassy Theatre building in Kent Terrace Wellington. The donated seat number of Heather Mathie is M16. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - Heather Mathie; Recto - bottom right - M16 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on card, 95 x 197 mm

Date: 1994

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to the sale and purchase of real estate, domestic dwellings, commercial buildings, houses, subdivisions and sections]

Reference: Eph-B-REAL-ESTATE-1994-01

Description: Promotional booklet, showing an artist's impression of the exterior, and floor plans for the six floors (including two carpark levels). Gives values and rates, specifications and dimensions of the units, portrait photographs of the developers Andy Thomson and Nick Thomson (both lawyers), and a cutaway view of an individual apartment inside the back cover. The building was completed in 1996, by building contractors L T McGuinness. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, each 297 x 210 mm.

Date: [ca 21 July 1988]

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

By: West, William, active 1988

Reference: EP/1988/2911

Description: Exterior views of the Embassy Theatre, Kent Terrace, Wellington, at night, taken ca 21 July 1988 by Evening Post staff photographer William West. There is a sign for the Seventeenth Wellington Film Festival hanging on the front of the building. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1923

By: Turnbull, Thomas, 1824-1907

Reference: Plans-80-1681

Description: Shows longitudinal section B.B, and ground and first floor plans Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Contractor C L Dentice Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper

Date: 1966 - 1968

By: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992; Staffan, Lawrence Charles, 1924-1998

Reference: Plans-90-1417/1426

Description: Consists of plans of Unity Theatre January 1967 (Plans-90-1418/1419 - possibly by Laurence Staffan, based on an idea by David Crewes); Suggested alterations to premises in Kent Terrace for Unity Theatre 9 Dec. 1968 (Plans-90-1420); Suggested alterations to Aro Street site prior to Nov. 1966, including framing plan for main floor (Plans-90-1423/1426). Unity Theatre bought the Aro Street Wesleyan Church in June 1964, and used it as a theatre. Previously they had used a property in Drummond Street, since the 1950s. By the late 1960s, Unity Theatre was using a building in Kent Terrace; this was, or was very close to, the building being used in 1994 by Bats Theatre. Other Titles - Unity Theatre Jan. 1967 Other Titles - Suggested alteration to premises in Kent Terrace for Unity Theatre. Other Titles - Suggested alterations to Aro Street site. Quantity: 10 plan(s). Physical Description: Plans, some pen, some pencil, of varying sizes.

Date: 1983

By: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: C-106-007-a/012-a

Description: Manners Street from Perrett's Corner, 1908 or 1909; The intersection of Courtney Place and Kent Terrace, 1911 or 1912; Basin Reserve, 1914; The intersection of Riddiford Street, Russell Street and Mansfield Street, Newtown Wellington, between 1910 and 1915; Oriental Bay kiosk, 1914; Balaena Bay, Wellington, 1914. Title from container, which also bears descriptive notes. Other Titles - Sydney Charles Smith (1888-1972). Alexander Turnbull Library photographic posters Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 6 photolithographs 254 x 345 mm, on sheets 400 x 450 mm, in container 390 x 530 mm. Provenance: Acquired through Legal Deposit.