Pipe bands - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: [ca 1950s]

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Walker, W (Mr), active 1940s-1950s

Reference: 1/2-034508-F

Description: Wellington Pipe Band on the band rotunda at Oriental Bay, Wellington, circa 1950. Two boys sit in the foreground. Photograph taken by W Walker. National Publicity Studios number is A4190 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 195?

From: Folprecht, Frantisek Josef :New Zealand scenery

By: Folprecht, Frantisek Josef, 1914-1989

Reference: PA12-0021

Description: Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies (35mm).

Date: 1957-1988

Reference: MS-Group-0661

Description: Papers include some records of the Comunn na Piobaireachd Inc (1957-1988) and the City of Wellington Pipe Band (1969-1987), and also a copy of `The Art of piobaireachd' (1966) by Ian McKay Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Quantity: 4 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, printed matter Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - Programmes and flyers for Highland Piping and Dancing events. Also Wellington Pipers' Club (4), Wellington Provicial Highland Gathering and Wellington Pipers' Club (2), South Canterbury Sports Circuit poster, Hastings Highland Games (15), Highland Piping Society of Canterbury (and NZ & Silver Chanter championships)(3), Waipu Caledonian Society programmes and 1 poster, Otago Centre (10), Auckland Centre (1), Southland Centre (1), Paraparaumu and Districts Highland Pipe Band (4), Turakina Caledonian Society (4), City of Wellington Highland Pipe Band brochure, Comunn na Piobaireachd brochures (2), Highland Piping and Dancing Association of Invercargill. - To Book Collections - The Art of Piobaireachd (1996) - To Photographic Archive - 27 photos transferred in 1988.

Date: 1969-1987

From: McKay, Ian Lloyd, 1926- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-10261-3

Description: Comprises Ian McKay's collection of papers relating to the City of Wellington Pipe Band - annual reports [1969-1987], statements of income and expenditure [1969-1986], City of Wellington Pipe Band Education Trust Capital account Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts (copies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - (A88-114) Donated by Mr Justice McKay, Wellington

Date: 1953

From: Crown Studios Ltd :Negatives and prints

Reference: 1/1-031534-F

Description: Photograph taken by Crown Studios of Wellington. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: during World War 2

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-5926-39

Description: Members of the New Zealand Home Guard, Somes Battalion, led by a pipe band, marching from Petone to Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, during World War 2. Photograph taken in Eastbourne by John Pascoe. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20.2 x 15.6 cm

Date: 16 December 1950

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

Reference: 114/239/05-G

Description: Pipe band at the funeral procession for Peter Fraser, Willis Street, Wellington, photographed 16 December 1950 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [ca 27 Jan 1941]

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

Reference: PAColl-8557-45

Description: Members of the Home Guard, being led through Ngaio, Wellington, by pipers of the Wellington Regiment and Scots College. Photograph taken circa 27 January 1941, by an unidentified staff photographer for the Evening Post. Publication note - Published in the Evening Post 27 Jan 1941 Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 12.8 x 20.2 cm

Date: 1970

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0025

Description: Pipe bands and onlookers in Cuba Mall, Wellington, 1970. Photographs taken in 1970 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Frame 12 shows two young perfomers wearing leis, attending a multicultural concert at the Display Centre in Cuba Street. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1975

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1280

Description: All frames show families through the streets of Wellington watching the Santa Christmas Parade. Frames 1, and 12 show women and children looking down from a balcony and frame 3 shows two young men perched up on a flower box, probably on the Wellington Town Hall. A pipe band is seen in the background in frame 2. Other views show people in costume, including two young girls wearing traditional Dutch clothes. One woman is holding a clown doll (frames 7 and 8), and another woman (wearing a scarf around her head) is carrying a baby (frames 9 and 11). Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1976

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1371

Description: All images taken during a fancy dress parade probably part of a summer holiday programme held in the Newtown area in 1976. Some show young spectators along the route, many wearing masks and face paints. Others show members of the parade including a man with a beard wearing a woman's corset and a beret, carrying a handbag. In frames 10 and 11 they are passing a building labelled "The Lions Club of Wellington." Two men in frame 12 are members of a band, the drummer bearig a sign around his neck reading "City of Wellington Lowland Pipe Band". Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1976

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1370

Description: Summer holiday programme 1976. Most frames show a group of people, including a man in drag (wearing a woman's corset and a beret, carrying a handbag), parading through Newtown streets. He stops to talk to people along the route, and in the end (frame 12) appears like the Pied Piper leading a crowd of children. Frame 5 shows an Indian man pushing his toddler along the pavement in a pushchair. Frame 6 shows two musicians, one with drum (wearing a label "City of Wellington Lowland Pipe Band"), the other with bagpipes. Frame 7 shows a group of people standing inside a picket fence outside a villa with a road sign on the right to the Mans[field Street] Gospel Hall. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1979

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1798

Description: All images taken in the grounds of St John's Anglican Church, Trentham, during a fair. A young boy is sitting on a gravestone in part of the cemetery (frames 1 & 2). Church identified from the gravestone of Jenny Blackmore, just legible (with further information from the church records: Widow of Rev. H.B. Blackmore of England, laid to rest 6 Jan 1944 in her 80th year"). A pipe band is seen in the distance walking up a path with agapanthus planted all along the edge (frame 3), and a bass drummer from the band (wearing a leopard skin tunic) is in frames 6 & 7. Children and adults are seen watching (frames 5 to 7); a young child eating a hot-dog is being pulled along on a pushchair (frames 8 & 9); and a group of older people are seated (frames 10 to 12). Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1979

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1799

Description: All images taken in the grounds of St John's Anglican Church, Trentham, during a fair. Three older women are chatting (frames 1 & 2); two others are sitting watching proceedings (frame 3); and members of a pipe band are relaxing after their performance (frames 4 & 7 to 12), including the bass drummer in his leopard skin tunic (frames 11 & 12). Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1979

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1800

Description: All images taken in the grounds of St John's Anglican Church, Trentham, during a fair. A young woman, member of a pipe band is helping a young Māori girl with her poi (frames 1 to 4); a member of the band is relaxing (frame 5); and various adults and children are relaxing (frames 5 to 12), with a child on a seat with the labels "Toss a coin" and "Quoits" (frame 11). Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film