A place on corner of Manners and Willis Street, Te Aro, Wellington. Named after Perrett's Chemist, which was located on this site. The chemist shop and mail order business was established by French brothers Claude and Edwin Perrett who purchased the premises in 1912. The building had originally been built as a house and surgery for Dr Robert Harding in 1878. The brothers' business closed in 1964 and the building was demolished in 1971, however the name Perrett's Corner persisted.
Perrett's Corner
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Manners Street - Numbers 1-50
Date: 1986-1992
From: Shephard, Wayne, active 1990-2001: Papers relating to Wellington buildings
Reference: 2007-116-102
Description: File comprises Archive of Wellington Architecture research forms. Some forms include newspaper cuttings. Selected names indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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DB, people at Perrets Corner.
Date: 1973
From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives
Reference: 35mm-56897-F
Description: DB, people outside shop at Perrets corner, photographed 1973 by K E Niven & Co of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with three images. Physical Description: cellulosic film negative Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 710/73.
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Reade album 1
Date: [Between 1840s and 1890s]
By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Tyree Brothers (Firm); Reade, M A (Mrs), active 1969
Reference: PA1-o-429
Description: Recent prints from old photographs of Wellington, originally taken between about 1840s and 1890s. Includes one photograph of a painting by William Mein Smith of Wellington waterfront and Te Aro flat, painted in 1842. Only one image identifies the photographer. A photograph of Oriental Bay taken in the 1890s, was by the Tyree Brothers of Nelson. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red mock-crocodile textured cover, entitled `Photographs'; 26.0 x 36.5 cm Processing information: All the photographs have reference numbers linking them with items in the Alexander Turnbull Library photographic collections
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Railways album 8
Date: [1930s]
By: New Zealand Railways
Reference: PA1-f-057
Description: Album of photographs of scenes, advertisements and posters advertising rail and ferry travel in New Zealand. The advertisements were used in The New Zealand Railways Magazine, and the posters were displayed at Railways Ticket Offices. The posters, and advertisements using "Mr Goodseat" were part of their campaign to show the advantages of travel by rail. The artist for many of these signed himself 'Matthews'. Scenic photographs also show some aspects of life in New Zealand, including a series on the flax industry with harvesting, drying and processing the fibres. Another group shows a farm, including a house made of corrugated iron, with sacking covering the windows; land clearing and ploughing with horses, draining the land, and a pile of harvested kumara; and several photographs of a man panning for gold, and inspecting pieces of rock with a magnifying glass; a group of men on horseback with dogs setting out on a hunt, and a cage full of pheasants before being released for the shoot. Pages 78-81 show activities associated with the mail service. They include people buying stamps in a post office, men sorting mail, large bags prepared for out-of-town delivery (some bags being delivered to the inter-island ferry for transport to the South Island). From there they show postmen emerging from the Chief Post Office with their satchels ready for local delivery, with the final scenes of delivery into a household letterbox, and one of a woman being handed her mail at the door. There are a number of much earlier photographs in the album, including pictures of Major Ropata, Sir Donald McLean, John Webster and F E Maning, and one of Te Aro in 1857. Advertisements included "Buy New Zealand made goods, for the children's sake. Cut these cords. Unemployment"; an advertisement for Hannah's footwear using a photograph of The Mystery train" (advertising a trip to Paraparaumu Beach, and another to Ohau). Several photographs show large groups of people who travelled on the Mystery Train, picnicking at the beach at Paraparaumu, boiling up a huge billy, and a child in a backpack on her father's back). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C3"; 39 x 56 cm
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DB, people at Perrets Corner.
Date: 1973
From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives
Reference: 35mm-56895-F
Description: DB, people outside shop at Perrets corner, photographed 1973 by K E Niven & Co of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with three images. Physical Description: cellulosic film negative Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 710/73.
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DB, people at Perrets Corner.
Date: 1973
From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives
Reference: 35mm-56896-F
Description: DB, people outside shop at Perrets corner, photographed 1973 by K E Niven & Co of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with three images. Physical Description: cellulosic film negative Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 710/73.
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DB, people at Perrets Corner
Date: 1973
From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives
Reference: 35mm-56898-F
Description: DB, people outside shop at Perrets corner, photographed 1973 by K E Niven & Co of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with three images. Physical Description: cellulosic film negative Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 710/73.
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Harding, Susan :Photograph and cartes de visite showing the Harding house on Perrett's ...
By: Harding, Susan, active 1990s
Reference: PAColl-1847
Description: Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies.
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Group of unidentified members of the British and Irish Lions rugby team, crossing Willi...
Date: 30 Jul 1959
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP/1959/2621-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, 6.5 x 6.5 cm
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Dormer Beck. People at Perretts Corner.
Date: 1973
From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives
Reference: 1/2-222827-F
Description: Perretts corner shopping plaza, corner Willis St & Manners St, photographed by K E Niven & Co of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic Film Negative Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 710/73.
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Woman and children at the VE celebrations, Perretts Corner, Wellington
Date: May 1945
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-001512-F
Description: Woman and children at the VE celebrations, Perretts Corner, Wellington, May, 1945. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Original caption reads: "Flags with children." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
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Dormer Beck. People at Perretts Corner.
Date: 1973
From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives
Reference: 1/2-222828-F
Description: Perretts corner shopping plaza, corner Willis St & Manners St, photographed by K E Niven & Co of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic Film Negative Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 710/73.
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Te Aro, Wellington
Date: ca 1869
By: Hayton, (Mr), active 1983
Reference: 1/2-135964
Description: View from The Terrace, looking across Te Aro, toward Mount Victoria, circa 1869. In the foreground are Willis Street, Perrett's Corner, the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel and the building that was to be site of St Mary of the Angels on Boulcott Street. On Manners Street, which runs through the middle of the picture, is the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Te Aro 1869 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Copy negative from loaned print
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Dormer Beck. People at Perretts Corner.
Date: 1973
From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives
Reference: 1/2-222825-F
Description: Perretts corner shopping plaza, corner Willis St & Manners St, photographed by K E Niven & Co of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic Film Negative Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 710/73.
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Dormer Beck. People at Perretts Corner.
Date: 1973
From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives
Reference: 1/2-222830-F
Description: Perretts corner shopping plaza, corner Willis St & Manners St, photographed by K E Niven & Co of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic Film Negative Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 710/73.
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Dormer Beck. People at Perretts Corner.
Date: 1973
From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives
Reference: 1/2-222829-F
Description: Perretts corner shopping plaza, corner Willis St & Manners St, photographed by K E Niven & Co of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic Film Negative Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 710/73.
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Dormer Beck. People at Perretts Corner.
Date: 1973
From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives
Reference: 1/2-222826-F
Description: Perretts corner shopping plaza, corner Willis St & Manners St, photographed by K E Niven & Co of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic Film Negative Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 710/73.
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Tram no 197 halted by a power failure, Perrets Corner, Wellington
Date: 1957
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP/1957/2106-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 3.25 x 4.25 inches
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Manners Street, Wellington
Date: ca 1900s
From: Wellington City Council :Negatives of Wellington taken for the Wellington City Council, chiefly by Frank Giles Barker
Reference: 1/1-025453-G
Description: View of business premises in Manners Street, Wellington, from Willis Street, circa 1900s. Includes Mrs Martha Rogers' Criterion Cafe on the left side of the street and Turner's chemist shop and the New Zealand Alliance for the Abolition of Liquor Traffic on Perrett's Corner. The street is busy with horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative
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View of Perretts Corner, Wellington, New Zealand
Date: 10 May 1971
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1971/2014/12-F
Description: View of Perretts Corner on Manners and Willis streets, Wellington, New Zealand. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 10 May 1971. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strip comprising one image. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm