Bolton Street Cemetery

Reference: PAColl-1495

Description: Quantity: 2 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [1870s]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-12-22

Description: Photograph of Wellington showing Parliament Buildings, St Mary's Catholic Church and Government House, taken from the Bolton Street Cemetery in early 1870s by William Henry Whitmore Davis. The new chambers of the Legislative Council and the House of Representatives are under construction. St Mary's Cathedral spire is still in place (removed in 1885). In the immediate foreground are graves, one surrounded by a white picket fence. Duplicates of PA7-12-20 & PA7-12-21 Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1839-1932

From: Ward family : Papers

Reference: MSI-Papers-1869-09

Description: Cadastral plans of Wellington with Ward's hand written lists of the original owners of the Town Acre lots sold by the New Zealand Company, 1839-1840; plan of Wellington, 1841; map of electoral district of Nelson, 1902; Upcot (Tapuaenuku) Survey district; town of Bulls; C E Fook's map of Christchurch, 1862; and tracing of Bolton Street cemetery, 1932 Other Titles - Early Wellington Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1960 - 1965

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Old homes & sheds, farms made by pioneers in Norsewood. [1950s-1964].

Reference: E-029-q-114

Description: Shows the chapel surrounded by flowering shrubs and trees, lawn and gravestones. A large tree (macrocarpa?) is growing over the chapel roof. Other Titles - Bolton Street Cemetery Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour 245 x 315 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist available.. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J. Brenkley in 1964.

Date: 1968

From: Jones, Betty :Photographs of Wellington

By: Jones, Betty, active 1950-1994

Reference: PA12-0115

Description: Quantity: 3 colour original transparency/ies.

Reference: 1/2-036164-F

Description: Copy negative from large print Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: [ca 1880]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-12-24

Description: View of the Government Building and Supreme Court on Lambton Quay, and ships in Wellington Harbour taken from the Bolton Street Cemetery by W H W Davis in 1880s. Government House is on the left and St-Andrews-on-the-Terrace on the right. In the immediate foreground are headstones (inscriptions unable to be deciphered). Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 10 March 1979

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1979/0844-F

Description: Workmen with mobile crane relocating the gravestones of John Plimmer, Henry Blundell and Edward Gillon in Bolton Street Cemetery, alongside the Wellington Urban Motorway. Photographs taken 10 March 1979 by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson. The gravestones had been in storage for a year in Karori, after being removed from, their original sites to make way for the Wellington Urban Motorway extension. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negatives, 35mm

Date: 1840-1992

From: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 : Papers

Reference: Series-4462

Description: Research notes relating to Alington's book 'Unquiet earth; a history of the Bolton Street Cemetery', commissioned by the Ministry of Works in 1967. The research notes are arranged under the institutions where the research was undertaken and comprise deeds, minutes, correspondence, plans and biographical notes relating to Bolton Street Cemetery, 1840-1967. Also includes draft chapters of the book. Quantity: 45 folder(s).

Date: 1978

By: Peter, Juliet, 1915-2010

Reference: MS-Papers-1834

Description: Describes sketching trips with Rita Angus to cemtery during its destruction Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: Aug 1968 - Aug 1969

By: Shotter, Percival James Edward, 1910-1989; Shotter, Brian P, active 1990; Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012; Friends of Bolton Street Memorial Park

Reference: PA1-o-657

Description: Photographs taken during the dismantling of parts of the Church of England (Bolton Street Cemetery) and Public (Sydney Street) cemeteries in 1968-69 in preparation for the construction of the Wellington urban motorway Inscriptions: Verso - information about photos - annotated by Margaret Alington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album 32cm x 20cm maroon buckram covers containing 115 photographs encapsulated in cellophane Finding Aids: Four manifold volumes of a diary to accompany this album of photographs of the dismantling of the Bolton/Sydney Street cemeteries taken in 1968-69...are held at the Karori Cemetery Office. The diary was kept by H Johnson of the Works Department of the Wellington City Council. (Note from M Alington, April 1991). Provenance: Photographs taken by the sexton P J E Shotter

Date: ca 1920s

By: Robson, Edward Thomas, 1875-1953

Reference: PAColl-7554

Description: Two photographs of Bolton Street Cemetery, one showing the mortuary chapel and the other the Seddon Memorial. Photographer was E T Robson. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1965 and 1969]

From: Shotter, P J E :Negatives and albums (with index) of graves in the Bolton Street and Sydney Street cemeteries, Wellington

Reference: 35mm-25492-42A-F

Description: The grave of Robert Johnson at plot 1405 Bolton Street Cemetery. It was photographed in the late 1960s by the City Sexton, P J E Shotter, prior to its being dismantled to make way for the Wellington motorway. An original print from this negative is at PA1-o-047, page 40. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) individual frame on 35mm strip. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative

Date: [after 1885]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-12-19

Description: View looking towards St Mary's Cathedral and houses in Hill Street, Thorndon. Graves in the Bolton Street Cemetery are in the immediate foreground. The headstone erected on the grave of Catherine Watkin, wife of James Entwistle Watkin, who died in 1865, can be clearly seen. In the middle distance (visible over the treetops) are Parliament Buildings. Photograph taken by W H W Davis after 1885. Duplicate of PA7-12-18 The steeple was removed from the cathedral in 1885 Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: [Between 1965 and 1969]

From: Shotter, P J E :Negatives and albums (with index) of graves in the Bolton Street and Sydney Street cemeteries, Wellington

Reference: 35mm-25493-2A-F

Description: The grave of the Weaver family at plot 0610 Bolton Street Cemetery. It was photographed in the late 1960s by the City Sexton, P J E Shotter, prior to its being dismantled to make way for the Wellington motorway. An original print from this negative is at PA1-o-047, page 5. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) individual frame on 35mm strip. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative

Date: 1960s

From: P H Jauncey Studios :Photographs of building construction in Wellington

Reference: PAColl-7547-3

Description: Trade display for Watties canned and frozen goods; portraits of women; interior view of St James Church Lower Hutt; Wellington buildings under construction, in particular a series on the construction of Herbert Gardens 186 The Terrace; commercial buildings in Wellington; the Wellington Urban Motorway being built through the Bolton Street cemetery and beyond the Cable Car; image of water falling from a tap into a bucket; view of Wellington dated 11 July 1964 which shows the foundation laying stage of the car park building at the top of Plimmer steps.. Quantity: 31 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1968 - 1969

By: Peter, Juliet, 1915-2010

Reference: C-104-001/017

Description: Drawings of tombstones and the Cemetery generally, and tombstone rubbings, made just before the time the Cemetery was about to have the Wellington motorway driven through its centre. C-104-001 to C-104-017 are the separately mounted sketches and rubbings; C-104-018 and C-104-019 are the two sketchbooks, the larger (C-104-018) also containing 8 loose sketches at the back torn from another smaller spiral-bound sketchbook Inscriptions: Signed: Juliet Peter Quantity: 23 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink, chalk and gouache; 8 crayon rubbings, sizes vary; ball-point pen and crayon sketches in 2 spiral bound sketchbooks, 272 x 380 mm and 188 x 275 mm

Date: [Between 1965 and 1969]

From: Shotter, P J E :Negatives and albums (with index) of graves in the Bolton Street and Sydney Street cemeteries, Wellington

Reference: 35mm-25492-43A-F

Description: The grave of the Goodison family at plot 1406 Bolton Street Cemetery. It was photographed in the late 1960s by the City Sexton, P J E Shotter, prior to its being dismantled to make way for the Wellington motorway. An original print from this negative is at PA1-o-047, page 39. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) individual frame on 35mm strip. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative

Date: 1976

By: Irving, Wilhelmina G, active 1930s-1970s

Reference: B-023-046/054

Description: Contents: Old houses in Ascot Terrace, Plimmer House, Willis St, Bolton Street Cemetery, Wellington; "Charnwood", Lower Hutt and Cottleville Tce Wellington; a house named Woodside and a further old house wooden house with a turret, probably in Wellington The drawing of Cottleville Tce is further reproduced on the folder; the same picture also appears in the group numbered by the Library B-023-042/045 and received by the Library in 1977. Both groups are within the same folder. From original ink drawings signed: "W.G. Irving" Edition: 190/240 Quantity: 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) 1 folder. Physical Description: Photolithographs, b&w 431 x 352 mm ; ill 432 x 355 mm

Date: [Between 1965 and 1969]

From: Shotter, P J E :Negatives and albums (with index) of graves in the Bolton Street and Sydney Street cemeteries, Wellington

Reference: 35mm-25492-39A-F

Description: The grave of Wilfred Fairchild at plot 0601, Bolton Street Cemetery. It was photographed in the late 1960s by the City Sexton, P J E Shotter, prior to its being dismantled to make way for the Wellington motorway. An original print from this negative is at PA1-o-049, page 95. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) individual frame on 35mm strip. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative