Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs

Date: 1935-1936

From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1042

Description: Some of these images relate to a holiday trip taken by Edward Gambrill and three school friends, Christmas 1935. The rest are records of Edward with friends at Mungaroa and Carterton in 1935 and 1936 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca1860-ca1952

From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7369-11

Description: Most of the photographs are views of the village of Pehtam, Kent, England, taken from about the 1860s to the 1900s. General views of the village in the pastoral landscape of the North Downs, houses some with thatched roofs, streets in the village, and a large windmill on Stone Street. There are five views of All Saints Church, exteriors and interiors, all dating from the late 19th century. Petham was the village that Mollie Gambrill's father's family came from to New Zealand in the late 1880s, and where much of the extended family continued to live Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1918-ca 1935

From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7369-05

Description: Photographs of John (Jack) and Edward (Ted) Gambrill together, and also with their sister Mollie, their mother Elsie, their father Stephen, and their aunt Maud Seaward. There are also images of family cats, and snaps taken on holidays. Many of these record a visit Mollie made in the very late 1920s or early 1930s to a farm in the Waimata valley north of Gisborne owned by Dorothy and George Barber. Others are of buildings in Christchurch, unidentified houses and people, Ohinemutu, and the gannett colony at Cape Kidnappers Quantity: 84 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1940s-1970s

From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7369-08

Description: Photographs of friends, Australian relations, and cats. Most of these photographs are of friends and relatives children, and weddings One group of photographs record a trip to the United Kingdom in the 1950s, as well as other places visited on the way Quantity: 124 b&w original photographic print(s). 19 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1935-1936

From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1041

Description: Photographs taken on holidays, Christmas 1935 and Easter 1936. Waterfalls, streams, hills, valleys and Mount Taranaki; Edward on a horse, and with friends on Mount Taranaki Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca1937-ca1990

From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7369-06

Description: Holiday snaps taken during visits to the United Kingdom and Holland in the late 1930s and 1950s. Wellington East Girls Collage which Mollie attended as a student from 1926 to 1929. There is an image of the buildings in 1926, Mollie's class photographs from 1926 to 1928, a group photograph of the staff dating from the late 1930s, and a photograph of a reunion ca1980s. Two group photographs of Victoria College graduates include Mollie and there are images of congratulatory gifts of flowers sent to her. One group of photographs are of and relate to Margaret Parkinson, Mollie's friend and collegue at Wellington East Girls College. Quantity: 66 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1900s-1970s

From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7369-10

Description: All of these are loose prints from album PA1-q-763. Most are of family members, relatives and friends. One is a sepia coastal landscape by Frank Barker. Another is of a Mrs Stace spinning. There is a view of Levin Railway station dating from the 1900s with Station Master Arthur Seaward and his staff standing on the platform. Two dating from about 1908 show men of the Department of Lands and Survey sitting outside a tent playing instruments and singing. There is a view of Kibirnie, Wellington, dating from about 1912, and two images of the Gambrill family plot at Karori Cemetery Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). 41 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1906 - ca 1938

From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs

By: Gambrill, Stephen, 1883-1953; Gambrill, Elsie, -1974

Reference: PA1-q-763

Description: Opens with photographs relating to Stephen Gambrill and sports teams that he was associated with, particularly cricket teams. An extensive section shows him with his male friends and collegues on Lands and Survey Department business in the Wanganui River area. Most of this is a record of young men ammusing themselves outside work. Images show them playing musical instruments, hunting, bringing home game, fishing, canoeing, tramping, cutting wood, and generally fooling around. Many of these photographs were probably taken by Herbert Earle Girdlestone who also worked in the Lands and survey Department. The same images also occur in Girdlestone's own albums. Another series following this is a group of men in the countryside and at beaches. They may be members of the gymnastic group to which Stephen Gambrill belonged. As well as group images others show them performing hakas, dressing up, and performing group gymnastic stunts. One member of this group is the artist Nugent Welsh. Central to this album is the friendship between the Gambrill and Barker families, especially the younger members. There are many group photographs of mainly young men and women interacting socially; at the beach, swimming, picnicing, boating, out on cycling trips, drinking beer, out in the bush, and in fancy dress. Many images record members of the two families their friends and relations, including Stephen Gambrill and Elsie Barker on their wedding day in 1910. Following this is a section crowded with images of their children, Mollie, John, and Edward, as well as children of relatives and friends. This latter part of the album bring in the children and adult members of the Drawbridge Family. This connection is through Stephen's cousin Edith Gambrill who married a Drawbridge. Stephen Gambrill was also an amature photographer so that the Wellington coastal landscapes, views of rivers in native forest, ships, towns, and construction camps, may well be by him. He was also a keen sportsman, so two later groups of images record a tramp across mountains under snow, and elaborate group gymnastic displays. The album ends with Stephen's children and others dressed up as Red Indians The bulk of the photographs were taken between 1906 and 1920 One loose print from this album of a massed gymnatic performance in a theatre in the 1900s, is now housed in PAColl-7369-01. Three pages of photographs (pp 15-17) include many images of a survey trip into the hill country west of the main road between Raetihi and National Park. These photographs were taken in the area around Ruatiti and the Ruatiti Stream and Manganuioteao River about 1908. For another record of the same trip with many of the same images identified see Girdlestone Album PA1-q-915. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1880s-1980s

From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7369-09

Description: Photographs of family, relations, friends and their children. One group are the loose prints from album PA1-o-1040. These are mostly of Gambrill family members, and Australian relatives. Most date from the 1900s to 1930s. Two separate groups of photographs dated 1981 are of Petham, a town in Kent, and Thurso, a town on the northern coast of Scotland. Petham, Kent, was where Mollie's father's family came from. Waddenhall Farm, Kent was where he was born and the place from which the family emigrated to New Zealand Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s). 42 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1934

From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs

Reference: PA6-767

Description: Group portrait of the staff of the Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, taken 1934 by an unidentified photographer. Shows Stephen Gambrill in the front row, thirteenth from right. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - N.Z. Govt. Lands & Survey Dept. Wgtn. 1934.; Recto - beneath image - Stephen Gambrill; Verso - centre - 13 from left front Mollies father Stephen Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 13.8 x 80.6 cm