Room layout (Dwellings)

Date: 14 Oct 1993

From: Kilbirnie-Lyall Bay Community Centre oral history project

By: Bruce, Robin Athol, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0403-05

Description: Robin Bruce was born in Kilbirnie, Wellington in 1932. Gives details of his family background - the Bruce family on his paternal side and the Hobman family on his maternal side. Recalls growing up at 24 Wexford Road, a house which no longer exists because of the Wellington airport construction. Describes how his father, a builder, built 24 Wexford Road and 22 Wexford Road which was moved to its current location in Tacy Street about 1958 when the Rongotai airport was constructed. Describes the house and outhouses in detail. Discusses the importance of sport to his father John Bruce, an ex All Black, and the involvement of his mother, Beatrice Bruce, in organisations including the Methodist Women's Union and Prisoners' Aid Society. Notes that she was a pianist and there was a lot of music around the house. Discusses the effect of the Depression on his father's building firm. Describes childhood routines including meals, table manners, listening to the radio, Monday washday, frequent visitors to the house and many relatives living nearby. Recalls his brothers Donald and Neil and the death by accidental shooting of Neil. Describes the effect on the family. Describes neighbours, neighbouring properties, the power station, Miramar Wharf, childhood friends and schooling at Miramar South Primary School and Rongotai College. Comments on the effect of World War II, the Japanese threat, his father's involvement in the Home Guard and the Emergency Precaution Scheme (EPS), drills and air raid shelters. Recalls spending time at the airport during the War. Describes his jobs as a delivery boy and social life including pictures, dances, rugby at Athletic Park and fishing. Recalls the Centennial Exhibition and the destruction of the exhibition buildings by fire. Describes the use of trams and other public transport and no telephone till 1951. Recalls the planning of the Rongotai airport and the shift of housing and its effect on his family. Talks about leaving school with School Certificate and work poisoning rabbits, as a clerk and as a sales representative with Automobile Supplies. Describes marrying Alice MacInnes in 1962, moving to Wainuiomata, having a family and returning to Kilbirnie in 1985. Talks about establishing his own firm, Spares and Accessories in 1983. Gives reasons for staying in Kilbirnie. Abstracted by - Hugo Manson Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 3 Tacy Street Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006615 Tape numbers - OHC-006616 Tape numbers - OHC-006617 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1522. 17 photocopies of photographs of house being moved from Wexford Road. 3 photocopies of photographs of Robin Bruce with others Search dates: 1932 - 1993

Date: 5 Oct 1993 - 05 Oct 1993

From: Kilbirnie-Lyall Bay Community Centre oral history project

By: Rider, Philip Dennis, 1923-

Reference: OHInt-0403-06

Description: Philip Rider was born in London in 1923. Describes family background - father Reginald Rider and mother Nellie Rider, nee Watt. Gives details of family coming to New Zealand in 1927 - father a furrier on contract to Fur Trading Company of New Zealand and mother also worked in fur trade - and buying the house in Kilbirnie that he still lives in at the time of the interview. Describes father and mother. Recalls going fishing with father. Describes the family home - the layout and the use of rooms, the kitchen, bathroom and dining room, furniture made by father, the use of the dining room for entertaining. Comments on the use of gas, including the gas califont, electricity, open fires for heating and not having a telephone. Mentions telephone box. Comments on house colours and roofs in the area. Describes school lunches. Mentions Mr and Mrs Hoy. Gives details of the development of the airport and land reclamation. Recalls there were many children in the street and playing in the street and at each other's places. Mentions billiards and cards and describes a kitset radio. Mentions the family cat. Recalls corporal punishment at home and at school. Talks about reading, mother knitting and darning and discussing problems with mother. Briefly describes the garden and talks about neighbours Alex Gowan and the Billman, Scott, Anderson and Wright families. Discusses older brother Len Rider. Recalls services such as the milkman, the postman delivering twice a day, the drain cleaner and trams. Gives details of the shops and who ran them - the grocery, drapery, butcher and hardware shops. Mother mainly shopped at Self Help - describes Self Help shops. Recalls attitudes to illness and refers to tonsils and olive oil. Talks about the dentist and tooth removal. Discusses education at Lyall Bay Primary School - route walked to school, teachers and subjects. Describes the effect of the Depression. Mentions relief workers shifting sandhills for the airport. Mentions door to door salesmen. Describes going to hear Bob Semple speak before the 1935 Election. Briefly recalls starting work in the fur trade in 1937. Describes joining the army signal unit in 1941 and serving in New Zealand, life as a signaller, army radios and other equipment. Comments on the effect of war on the street. Mentions the Home Guard. Describes setting up Rider and Company, a manufacturing furrier business, with father after war while brother worked for Quality Furriers in the Hutt Valley, operating the business from home and also living at home, learning skills from father, drafting patterns, taking over business after father retired in 1950s. Details involvement in Forest and Bird Society, interest in conservation, meeting Ruth Scull and marrying in 1966. Refers to renovating the kitchen after marriage and getting the telephone in the early 1950s - otherwise no major changes to the house. Describes buying first car ca. 1948 and building a garage at the front of the house. Refers to being the only one of his generation still living in the street. Lists reasons for staying in family home. Talks about working for Interlock Ltd in Miramar after retirement and compares working with fur to working with metals. Discusses the Kilbirnie Speedway, the 1940 Centennial Exhibition buildings and the flying boats. Explains his objections to the airport extension plans. Abstracted by - Susan Fowke Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 20 Salek Street Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006618 Tape numbers - OHC-006619 Tape numbers - OHC-006620 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1523. Photocopies of two photos of Philip Rider with abstract Search dates: 1923 - 1993

Date: 29 Sep 1993

From: Kilbirnie-Lyall Bay Community Centre oral history project

By: O'Malley, Ethnee Louisa Ann, 1917-2002

Reference: OHInt-0403-04

Description: Ethnee (Bud) O'Malley was born in 1917 in the Lyall Bay house where this interview took place and has never lived away from the house. Explains nickname. Describes her family background including great grandfather Edward Wentworth Lamb, a remittance man, and paternal grandparents Louisa and Charles Reeves from Blenheim. Talks about her maternal grandfather who had a flax mill in Pelorus Sound and her maternal grandmother Anna Gould, a nurse and midwife who emigrated from Waterford in Ireland and read cups and cards. Describes parents Leonard and Ellen Reeves (nee Gould) who came to Lyall Bay during World War I after running a hotel in Ohakune. Details mother's work nursing and laying out people, especially during the 1918 flu epidemic. Discusses parents' marriage - mother catholic, father non-catholic. Talks about family reaction to mixed marriage and also to cousin marrying a Maori woman. Gives details of own birth and discusses education at St Catherine's School. Describes Lyall Bay during childhood as a holiday place, mentioning going to the beach and surf lifesaving clubs and carnivals. Outlines parents' activities during the Depression. Gives details of car trips and other family outings. Describes house in detail during childhood and now; it was built in 1917 to mother's design, some alterations since but little changed. Talks about home heating, gas, electricity and califont. Describes large garden during childhood. Talks about house built for grandmother where garden was while another grandmother lived with the family. Recalls own reaction to suggestion of building townhouses on the section. Recalls Centennial Exhibition and relations staying. Talks about sister Gladys Barrett who was a singer and her husband Laddie Barrett. Gives details of playing with brother Tom Reeves and being a tomboy. Discusses his later work as the owner of butchers shops. Refers to Graeme Reeves, MP. Describes family routines - bathing and hygiene, Christmas, father and mother cooking, home help Mrs Hunter. Talks about being the first in Lyall Bay to get a Beattie washing machine. Describes active social life, lack of education about sex and menstruation. Discusses religion, reaction to corporal punishment at school and discipline at home. Details family's interest in rugby and involvement in other sports. Mentions Majestic wireless. Talks about reading, listening to the radio and family musical evenings and games evenings - mentions euchre, 500 and crown and anchor, sometimes fundraising for school or church. Discusses alcohol and betting on horse races. Mentions marae on Queen's Drive. Talks about mother's heart condition. Lists neighbours and talks about Williamson family. Discusses childhood friends, especially Joan Dudley. Describes rivalry between state and catholic schools. Discusses her own and parents' smoking - refers to Pioneer Association. Describes meeting husband Brian O'Malley in 1934. Talks about continuing to live at home with parents after marriage in 1939 and after husband returned from World War II. Recalls working for Lee Brothers from 1934-1943 and friendship with Noreen and Olly Lee. Gives details of local shops and deliveries. Recalls Mrs Pie's shop. Talks about Hope Gibbons and Martindale families. Comments that the main changes in the street have been the conversion of houses with big sections to townhouses or flats. Talks about the effect of her husband's death, mentioning his war injury. Outlines her continued involvement with St Catherine's College where she is the chief supervisor for school certificate and trade exams. Talks about her children and family gatherings. Gives reasons for liking living in the house. Mentions daily attendance at mass. Abstracted by - Hugo Manson Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 5 Freyberg Street Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006612 Tape numbers - OHC-006613 Tape numbers - OHC-006614 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.45 Hours and minutes Duration. 1 Electronic document(s). 1 digital photograph(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1521. Search dates: 1917 - 1993

Date: 30 Sep 1993

From: Kilbirnie-Lyall Bay Community Centre oral history project

By: Young, Margaret Jean, 1910-2005

Reference: OHInt-0403-02

Description: Margaret Young (nee Purdie) was born in 1910 in the house in which she still lives. Gives details of her family background including the emigration to New Zealand of her paternal grandfather, George Purdie, and his subsequent employment. Notes that both he and her maternal grandfather, whose surname was Roberts, came to New Zealand in the gold rushes. Describes her father's work as a warehouseman with Levin and Company, his interest in things Scottish, and death from influenza in 1919. Talks about not attending his funeral, the work load for undertakers during the epidemic, finances after her father's death and the difficulty of not having a father. Discusses the layout of the house and garden to which her parents moved in 1903. Recalls changes to it, the arrival of electricity and early washdays. Describes attending Lyall Bay School from 1905-1922 and her route there on foot. Recalls the neighbouring Christie family and other neighbours along Childers Terrace. Describes her friendship with Kathleen Derby, her daily routine and brother Roy Purdie. Discusses tram routes, local shops, milk and mail delivery, birthdays, Christmas and holidays. Describes the role of her aunty when she came to live with the family. Recalls having diphtheria and a polio epidemic about 1928-1929. Discusses her education, being successful at school, the lack of sex education, leaving school and getting a job at the Correspondence School. Recalls that only men received salaries and were members of the permanent staff. Describes going to local dances and Evans Bay and Lyall Bay beaches. Recalls meeting her husband William Young, a seaman, being chaperoned, marrying in 1939 and living with him in her family home. Talks about the birth of sons Gordon and Graeme, family relationships, the death of her mother in 1957, her husband's employment as a messenger and his decline and death in 1978 from osteomylitis. Notes that one of her sons lives with her. Describes neighbourhood changes, her interest in gardening and feelings about the district. Accompanying material - Genealogical material Abstracted by - Hugo Manson Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 10 Childers Terrace Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006626 Tape numbers - OHC-006627 Tape numbers - OHC-006628 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.25 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1519. Search dates: 1910 - 1993

Date: 1960 - 1969

From: Ladyman, Jack, 1925- (Collector): [Ephemera relating to electricity, household appliances, building supplies and housing. 1950-1980s]

By: Keith Hay Homes Limited; Master Builders Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-HOUSING-JL-1960s

Description: Includes: 1965: [Keith Hay Homes]. Amended price list 7 October 1965 [attached to book of plans] Keith Hay Homes Ltd. Beach cottages [ca 1965?] Master Builders Ltd. Exhibition home, Levin Showgrounds, Winter 1965. Brochure Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and booklets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1970 - 1979

From: Ladyman, Jack, 1925- (Collector): [Ephemera relating to electricity, household appliances, building supplies and housing. 1950-1980s]

By: Beazley Homes (Firm); Designline Draughting Ltd; Lockwood Buildings (N.Z.); Vision Home Builders Ltd; Waipukurau Construction Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-HOUSING-JL-1970s

Description: Includes: Beazley Homes. [Book of plans. 1970s?] Design Line Draughting Ltd (New Plymouth). 14 house designs for economical home building [ca 1970] Lockwood. Looking at Lockwood; 50 individual house plans. Eighth (Australasian) edition Waipukurau Construction Company Ltd. Bringing it home to you; a few home truths about transportable homes [1970s] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and booklets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1980 - 1989

From: Ladyman, Jack, 1925- (Collector): [Ephemera relating to electricity, household appliances, building supplies and housing. 1950-1980s]

By: Beazley Homes (Firm); Hunts Homes Ltd; Keith Hay Homes Limited

Reference: Eph-B-HOUSING-JL-1980s-1

Description: Includes: Beazley Homes. One move trade-in plan [1980s]. Folded pamphlet Beazley Homes. The Olympian collection (Athena 96, Diana 96, Hellena 96). Folded pamphlet Beazley Homes. The Olympian collection (Corfu 104, Homer 104). Folded pamphlet Beazley Homes. The Olympian collection (Apollo 107, Jupiter 107, Mercury 107). Folded pamphlet Beazley Homes. The Olympian collection (Hero 114, Zeus 117, Electra 129). Folded pamphlet Beazley Homes. The Olympian collection (Adonis 117, Rhodes 117). Folded pamphlet Budget Homes New Zealand Limited. Budget & classic collection. [1980s?]. Folded pamphlet Hunts family homes. [Booklet of plans. 1980s] Keith Hay Homes. A home of your own [Booklet of plans. 1980s] Keith Hay Homes. [Envelope of loose plans. 1980s] Keith Hay Homes. Welcome to wonderful value; the $50,000 Keith Hay home [1988]. Folded pamphlet Vision Homes. Build your vision with pride! Economy range [Folded pamphlet with illustrations by Carolyn Sygrove. 1980s?] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and booklets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1980 - 1989

From: Ladyman, Jack, 1925- (Collector): [Ephemera relating to electricity, household appliances, building supplies and housing. 1950-1980s]

By: Horizon Homes Ltd; Waipukurau Construction Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-HOUSING-JL-1980s-2

Description: Includes: Our new Jennian Home; a great package (Folder containing plans from Horizon Homes, Devon Cottages, Jennian Timbercraft Homes). Waipukurau Construction. If it's quality housing you're after ... transportable homes by Waipukurau Construction. [Booklet] (2 copies) Waipukurau Construction. Tranportable homes, on site homes, light commercial, townhouses, building alterations, joinery [Booklet] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and booklets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1990 - 1999

From: Ladyman, Jack, 1925- (Collector): [Ephemera relating to electricity, household appliances, building supplies and housing. 1950-1980s]

By: Devon Cottages Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-HOUSING-JL-1990s

Description: Includes: Devon Cottages; your home and finance specialists [ca 1990]. Booklet Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and booklets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1955-1965

By: Plischke, Ernst Anton, 1903-1992; Plishke and Fantl Architects; King, Philip Sherwood, 1921-2003; K Waldvogel Limited; Pickard, Alexander Gaskell, 1913-2006; Pickard, Judith Ngaire Maud, 1921-2016

Reference: ATL-Group-00171

Description: Plans and papers relating to Plischke's design for the Pickard family home, Hamilton, designed by Ernst Plischke. Original site in Casey Avenue, then altered to 31 Eton Drive, Hillcrest, Hamilton. Home designed and built for Alec and Judy Pickard. See also 'Hidden heritage: the Hamilton work of EA Plischke' / Tony Richardson. Hamilton: 2010 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 27 plan(s). Physical Description: Manuscripts, correspondence, architectural plans and drawings.

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-011692-G

Description: Shows a part of a sitting room with two armchairs, a settee, sideboard and scattered cushions. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: 1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Health: [Fliers relating to health and nutrition. 1940s]

Reference: Eph-B-HEALTH-NZDH-1945-06

Description: Shows an illustration of a man watering his garden with a hose in front of his house which has large windows facing the garden. The text elaborates on the need to have a house designed so that plenty of sun can enter each room. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on flier, 255 x 145 mm.