Built in 1904 for John Holdsworth and his wife Margaret Chambers at the base of Te Mata Peak, Havelock North. Her family were prominent Quakers. The house was named Swarthmoor after the English Quaker Headquaters. It later belonged to a relation by marriage Walter L C McLean in the 1930s. Was later bought by Herbert Sutcliffe from McLean's estate, renamed 'Peloha' and used as a base for his School of Radiant Living. In the late 1980s it was sold to Weleda, makers of herbal and homeopathic medicines in the Steiner tradition.
Peloha (Havelock North, N.Z)
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New Zealand scenes - Provinicial cities & country towns
Date: [ca 1930-1943]
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-198
Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1930s-1940s Churches at Hawera, Palmerston North, Opotiki, Te Aroha, Waipukurau, Nelson, Queenstown and Pararaka. Whangarei - Central Park/Mair Park, Mt Darby golf links, children playing in a dinghy at Matapouri, tennis courts. Russell - View of foreshore, and view from the hill with Achilles in port. Tauranga - Causeway between The Mount and Tauranga, pier at The Mount, Mission House. Palmerston North - Boys' High School and baths, View of North side of The Square. Napier - Harbour under construction, view from the hill looking south, The Esplanade showing gardens, children's play area and Sound Shell, National Tobacco Company, T & G Building, Government buildings in Shakespeare Street, Civic Square. Hastings - Poplar Avenue, Cornwall Park, W L C McLean's house Swarthmore at Havelock North with vineyard. Gisborne - Gladstone Road, aerial view of town, river view. Cambridge - Bowling green, BNZ building, clock tower & National Hotel (with caravans parked outside the hotel), etc New Plymouth - Aerial view of 72nd Annual A & P Show; Moturoa; ships in port. Invercargill - The Little Playhouse, Government buildings, Southland Museum, 1943. Also - Children from Kerikeri School leaving for a swim; Arawa Street, Matamata; Lake Drive, Hamilton; view of Lyell township; Burke's Pool, Opihi; Denniston township; Caroline Bay, Timaru; main Street, Winton; shipping at Bluff; Oban township, Stewart Island; view of Picton harbour from Hotel Terminus; Alexander Street, Te Awamutu; Arawa Street, Matamata; Wairoa from Te Uhi Hill; Art Gallery, Wanganui; view of wanganui from Aramono.. Quantity: 76 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
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Photographs relating to Herbert Sutcliffe's School of Radiant Living at Peloha, Te Mata...
Date: [ca 1945]
From: Creator unknown :Photographs relating to School of Radiant Living at Peloha, Te Mata Peak, Hawke's Bay, and unidentified families
Reference: PA1-o-1728
Description: Photographs relating to the School of Radiant Living at 'Peloha', Herbert Sutcliffe's house at Te Mata Peak, Hawke's Bay taken circa 1945 by an unidentified photographer. The album opens with unidentified photographs of sea and ships taken (on board ship?) with an accompanying caption 'Edgars [sic] trip to Peloha Health School'. Further photographs are taken around and of the house 'Peloha' comprising: the surrounding gardens; views of cultivated paddocks; groups gathered around the front steps; water lily ponds; a group exercising; unidentified persons. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, bound with string, 15 x 23.9 cm.