Rocky Point

Date: 1905 to 1907

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-197

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1905 and 1907, covering a variety of topics. They include family photographs, both individual and group portraits, and Wellington houses (eg `Railway Whare', the house Godber and his family lived in, in Bay Street, Petone). One scene shows Godber's parents, Mary Ann and Charles Godber, with a large group of family members, including Albert Percy Godber, his wife Laura, and two children, Phyllis and William (p.21). On p. 13, Godber's wife Laura and two children are seen with an elderly couple, probably Laura's parents Charles Albert and Magdelina Clara Zinckgraf. Numbers of images show scenes associated with New Zealand Railways, including the Mataroa Railway Tunnel under construction, specific locomotives, signal stations, the railway station at Petone, and scenes at the Petone Railway Workshops. At the beginning of the album, several images show Godber and a team from the Petone Fire Brigade with medals they have won at fire-fighting practice competitions. A pocket at the front of the album holds two photographs, on of a new cutting on the road near Lowry Bay, and one of the `model of `D' class locomotive used in the Petone Peace Demonstration Procession' following the Boer War in 1902, signed `With A.P. Godber's compliments'. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 105 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 19.5 x 26.0 cm

Date: [1908-1912]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-q-103

Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Albert Percy Godber, including family portraits, areas where he lived, Petone and the Petone Fire Brigade, railways, the Hutt Valley, Wellington, and areas in the upper North Island. The family photographs show his immediate family (his wife Laura (nee Zinckgraf), and children William Albert and Phyllis Mary); groups including his father and mother Charles and Mary Ann Godber, his brother Harry Leonard and wife Annie and their daughter Constance Alice, and Laura's brother Charles Albert Zinckgraf. Godber was a fireman with the Petone Fire Brigade, and there are photographs of groups of firemen and fire fighting equipment, and displays of methods of fire fighting. Associated with Godber's work with New Zealand Railways, and particularly at the Petone Railway Workshops, there are views of various workshop buildings, groups of railway workers; one of M J Mack (General Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand); images of damage to rolling stock after railway accidents; trains; the Raurimu Spiral; railway viaducts; logging railways; and railway stations. Photographs taken in the northern part of the North Island include coal mines, rock formations, hot springs at Te Aroha and Kamo; Whangarei and the Wairua Falls; suburbs of Auckland including Newmarket, Remuera, Parnell, Onehunga, and Ellerslie Race Course. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 110 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram covers; 30.0 x 23.5 cm

Date: Circa 1908?

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1605-1/2-G

Description: Christmas card formed with a montage of images of railway interest decorated with fern leaves. The inscription reads "With the compliments of the season" with the central image 'Ladle Bend'; top left image 'Leaving Upper Hutt'; bottom left image 'Rocky Point as it was'; bottom right image 'Rocky Point 1907'; top right image 'Loco Class Wd'. Created and photographed by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: ca 1903

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0038-1/2-G

Description: View of the Napier Mail train travelling north at Rocky Point, Wb & S class locomotives. Photographed by A P Godber. The Wb class locomotive was built by Baldwin, and the S class was built by Avonside. Source of descriptive information - direction identified by Library client Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: Between 1908 and 1912

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0314-1/2-G

Description: View of a train rounding Rocky Point on recently developed track after partial reclamation between Wellington and Petone. The old sea-wall is still partially visible. Photographed by A P Godber after 1908. See APG-0311-1/2 for an image taken in 1908, in which the road and railway line are very newly developed. This image was taken later, with fencing along the edge of the road alongside the reclaimed land, and dividing the road from the railway line. Two horse-drawn carts are visible in the distance, and a woman stands on the hill above, looking down on the view. Possibly Laura Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1908

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0311-1/2-G

Description: View of a train rounding Rocky Point on newly developed track after partial reclamation between Wellington and Petone. The old sea-wall is still partially visible. Photographed by A P Godber in 1908. A print from this negative is at Pa1-q-103 (Godber Album vol 110, page A), with caption: "Rocky Point" 1908. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: ca 1900

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0050-1/2-G

Description: View of a train, L class locomotive, between Rocky Point (by the Hutt Road) and Petone. Sea-wall runs along the water's edge. This area later filled in. Photographed by A P Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches