Brancepeth Station

Date: 1863

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :Wairarapa sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-173-066/067

Description: View across rolling farmland, with three tree trunks in the left foreground, 'blue clay' noted in several places, 'gravel', 'sand and sandstone' and 'light gravel' in others. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 130 x 360 mm

Date: 1910 - 1919

By: Daniell, Frederick Charles, 1879-1953; Daniell, Trevor Hamilton, 1912-1988

Reference: Plans-84-0050

Description: Front view of Brancepeth, home of H H A Beetham Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - March 29th Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing on cream paper

Date: 1863

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :Wairarapa sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-173-008/009

Description: Extensive landscape view in the Wairarapa from Brancepeth Station Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 130 x 360 mm

Date: [Circa 1860s to 1880s]

Reference: PA1-q-194

Description: Scrap book containing photographs, newspapers cuttings, lithographs, and humorous magazine cuttings. There are 6 envelopes containing loose items from the album, including envelopes addressed to Mrs Richard Riddiford, Te Awaiti, Martinborough; and one to Herbert S Wardell, Club Hotel, Masterton.. There are a number of cuttings of wedding announcements, including one for the Riddiford-Wardell wedding (Richard Riddiford to Beatrice Mary Wardell), and one for Norman Beetham to Alice Mary Wardell), both in 1881. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with illustrated green cloth cover; Japanese style picture in black and gold; entitled 'Album' in red lettering; 28.0 x 23.5 cm

Date: 9 Jan 1904

Reference: fMS-Papers-1716

Description: Valuation of properties (as at 15 Dec 1903) owned jointly by T C Williams, W H Beetham & H H Beetham, including Brancepeth, Annadale and Landsdown stations at the dissolution of the partnership. Includes two maps showing Brancepeth and Annadale holdings. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (8 pages, 2 maps). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 2013

By: Vial, Jane, active 1980s-2010s

Reference: ArtEph-2013-B-02

Description: Exhibition catalogue, including catalogue essay, reproductions of portraits by artist William Beetham, and of images of his houses. Exhibition on display 27 June to 8 September 2013. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: 28 pages, colour illustrations, stapled, 21 cm

Date: 1974-1987

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: MS-Papers-12224-1

Description: Comprises seven notebooks. One is undated and contains research notes about Canterbury and Wellington Province bridges, Glenmark Station, and Martha Mine. Two loose pages also have notes about bridges. The other notebooks are dated 1974-1978, 1976-1978, 1978-1983, 1979-1983, 1982, and 1984-1987. Most have lists of places visited and dates on their inside front covers. One notebook includes notes on sites in the United States of America and England. The notebook for 1979-1983 contains notes from "Directors' meetings" from 1979 and possibly was used later for recording site visits as all the vists are dated from 1981 onwards. The notebook for 1984-1987 contains some entries in the back that document a trip in the manner of a diary. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Notebooks of various sizes, with cardboard or plastic covers, either stapled or spiral bound. Processing information: The place names noted in the inside front covers of the notebooks have been listed in this record. Other geographic names and specific building and structure names have not been listed.

Date: date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11690

Description: Transparencies of woolsheds in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the location; some are annotated with the name of the farm or station. Dates and photographer name are often but not always annotated. Title supplied by Library. Slides are not dated. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case labelled 'Woolsheds'. Arrangement was generally alphabetical by location or farm/station name. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1976, date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11727

Description: Transparencies of woolsheds in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the location, and sometimes the date of construction, of the woolshed. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title supplied by Library. Most slides are not dated. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a metal case labelled 'Woolsheds slides', with 12 compartments, each able to hold approximately 8 slides. No arrangement order has been identified. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11728

Description: Transparencies of woolsheds in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the location, and sometimes the date of construction, of the woolshed. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title supplied by Library. Slides are not dated. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a metal case labelled 'Woolsheds slides', with 12 compartments, each able to hold approximately 8 slides. No arrangement order has been identified. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1970s-1986

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: Series-6440-01

Description: Negatives, prints, and transparencies of accommodation buildings on farms and stations taken by Geoffrey or Jocelyn Thornton, 1970s-1986. Bibliography - Thornton, Geoffrey G. 'The New Zealand Heritage of Farm Buildings', Auckland N.Z. Reed Methuen, 1986. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Each negative and accompanying print were together in glassine bags, and transparencies were individually stored in glassine bags, arranged in largely alphabetical order by name of farm or station in a wooden drawer, in a sequence labelled "Accommodation". Bags were labelled with the farm or station name and type of building on the left-hand side of the bag and the location on the right-hand side. Some bags held negatives without corresponding prints. Quantity: 107 b&w original negative(s). 105 b&w original photographic print(s). 26 colour original transparency/ies 120. 6 colour original photographic print(s). 6 colour original negative(s). 3 b&w original negative(s) 120. Physical Description: Colour and black and white photographic negatives and prints, and colour transparencies. Transfers: Prints separated from the negatives are at Library reference PAColl-10686-01. Transparencies are at Library references PA12-3783 to PA12-3785. Negatives are at Library references 1/4-132733 to 1/4-132845, and 35mm-109276 to 35mm-109278.. Processing information: Negatives and transparencies were separated from the prints and rehoused for reasons of preservation and appropriate storage.

Date: 1970s-1986

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PAColl-10686-01

Description: Photographic contact prints of farm and station accommodation buildings in the North and South Islands of New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey or Jocelyn Thornton. Buildings include men's quarters, shearers' quarters, cookhouses, bakehouses, and cottages built for workers such as rabbitters, musterers, and boundary keepers. Many prints are labelled on the reverse; some are numbered; some have been marked up as if for publication. There are often several images of the same building from different perspectives. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Prints were together with corresponding negatives in labelled glassine bags, arranged in largely alphabetical order by name of farm or station, in a small wooden drawer in a sequence labelled "Accommodation". Bags were labelled with the farm or station name and type of building on the lefthand side of the bag and the location on the righthand side. Numbering on some of the prints does not correspond to the order of the glassine bags in the drawer. Quantity: 105 b&w original photographic print(s). 6 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black and white and colour contact prints. Transfers: Negatives separated from prints are at Library references 1/4-132733-F to 1/4-132845-F and 35mm-109277.. Processing information: Negatives and prints were separated and rehoused for reasons of preservation and appropriate storage. Not all manes associated with this item have been indexed.

Date: 1955-1971

By: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002

Reference: PA-Group-00375

Description: Wellington, openings of Parliament, politicians, Governors General, show personalities, Antarctic teams, police, army, visiting diplomats and heads of state, ship visits, memorials, RNZAF, fighter planes and fighter plane training, rugby and rugby players and selectors, film censorship, conferences, agricultural air shows, artists, royalty, manufacturing industries, models and fashion parades, New Zealand Players, etc Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 35mm-18037 to 18703, 120-0881 to 0959, 1/4-071736 to 072044, 1/2-177020 to 177461. Quantity: 1483 b&w original negative(s) 78 120 strips comprising 158 images, 666 35mm strips comprising 1,976 images, 308 1/4 plate negs, 441 1/2 plate negs. Total images 2,883. Finding Aids: Library generated negative registers provide a good access point to this collection. The negatives are listed within subject groupings.. Processing information: Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4814 to PA-Group-00375 in 2009.

Date: 1851-1882, 1901-1902

By: Beetham, William Henry, 1837-1925

Reference: Micro-MS-0059

Description: Deals with life on Brancepeth estate, Wairarapa Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (800 pages).

Date: 1941

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-90-1160/1161

Description: Shows floor plan, foundation plan, sections and elevations of a single storey three-bedroom house. Also shows detail of the construction of the tank stand. Includes a letter from the Guardian Trust to the architects, concerning the estate of O H Beetham, and advising on the building materials to be used in the building of the cottage. Other Titles - Shepherd's Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints on paper, sizes varying up to 530 x 760 mm.

Date: 1971, 1974, 1980-1981, date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-12183

Description: Transparencies of stables in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the name or brief description, and/or the location, of the stable. Dates are sometimes annotated. Locations (stations/farms and/or locality) annotated on the slide mounts include Akitio Station, "Annalong" at Otairo, Redwood Station at Appleby, Aramoana, Ashwick, Benmore Station, Bowlands Station at Bideford, Blackstone Hill, Blue Cliffs Station, Brancepeth, Bushy Park at Kai Iwi, Brentwood near Masterton, and Burnview. Title transcribed from item. Most transparencies are undated. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a 5 row, 30 slides per row, metal case labelled "Stables', in which the arrangement was generally alphabetical by the farm/station name or location, from bottom to top of each row and from left to right in the case. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1970s-1986

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: 1/4-132758-F

Description: Photographic negative taken by Geoffrey or Jocelyn Thornton 1970s-1986. Title taken from enclosure. Abbreviations have been expanded and repeated names entered only once. Arrangement: Negative was together with a print in a labelled glassine bag in a sequence labelled "Accommodation". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Black and white negative. Transfers: Print separated from negative is at Library reference PAColl-10686-01-26.. Processing information: Negative was separated from print and rehoused for reasons of preservation and storage.

Date: 1865-1895, 1903

From: Levin & Company Ltd : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1347-3/2/125

Description: Thomas Coldham Williams and William Henry Beetham, Brancepeth, Wairarapa. Includes material on Brancepeth, Annedale, Mataikuna & Manawa stations. Very few personal letters Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1865-1909

From: Levin & Company Ltd : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1347-3/2/125A

Description: Thomas Coldham Williams and William Henry Beetham, Brancepeth, Wairarapa. Includes material on Bishop's residence Building Fund debentures, 1879; also small number of station accounts, cheque book stubbs, personal invoices, 1865-1892 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1930s-1940s]

Reference: 1/2-055175-F

Description: Photograph of the homestead at Brancepeth Station, Masterton. Photograph taken circa 1930s-1940s by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative