Castle Hill Station

Date: 1870-1890

From: Saxby, Stephen Hector, 1907- :Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Ring, James, 1856-1939; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-q-213

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand and Pacific scenes, compiled ca 1870s-1880s. Includes views of Nelson. Bridge over the Waiau River near Hanmer. Hutt Valley (showing junction of Belmont Road), Manaia (showing Dr Hector, and oysters in foreground). James Hector's house `Ratanui,'near Petone, his family, and views from the house. Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu (showing flooding, acclimatisation ponds, and the road between Queenstown and Martin's Bay). Greymouth. Castle Hill. White Island. Mount Ruapehu. Otira Gorge. Arthur River. Milford Sound (with steamship Rotorua). Christchurch. Auckland (including a series of interior views of Kilbryde, the home of Sir John Logan Campbell). Cable car over Taramakau River. Hawks Crag. Brunnerton. Arnold river. Arthur's Pass. Buller River. Denniston (showing coal mines and incline). Mount Cook. Wellington (including views of the Botanic Garden). Lake Mapourika. Sutherland Falls. Tahiti. Wanganui. The Wainuiomata Reservoir. Napier. Photographers represented include W T L Travers (scenes on Waiau river), Hart, Campbell & Co (Queenstown and Wakatipu), James Ring (Greymouth, Castle Hill, and Buller), H T Lock (Hawks Crag and Denniston), Wheeler & Son (Christchurch), Connolly & Co (Wellington Botanic Garden) and Burton Brothers (Sutherland Falls). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded maroon cover, entitled "New Zealand ferns"; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: 1813, 1864-1912

By: Enys, John Davies, 1837-1912

Reference: MS-Papers-0670

Description: Inward correspondence from Sir James Hector and other naturalists with particular reference to New Zealand ferns, butterflies and moths and the fossil beds discovered by Enys on his Castle Hill Station, Canterbury; collection of autographs including a group related to Samuel Butler Quantity: 7 folder(s). 0.07 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: date unknown

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

Reference: PA12-11730

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: [ca 1880s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-435

Description: Photographs taken circa 1880s by James Ring, photographer based in Greymouth. Scenes in Greymouth and nearby include views of severe flooding (p 3-5, 7); loading ships at the wharf showing hydraulic cranes raising hoppers of coal, and rolling stock laden with coal for transportation. Three shipping photographs including the SS Gerda wrecked on the Greymouth Breakwater in June 1888; the SS Mawhera ashore on North Beach, Greymouth in 1886, and the SS Rosamond crossing the Greymouth Bar. Beyond Greymouth views include the Grey River, Rocky Island, Brunnerton and the Brunnerton Bridge, and the West Coast Road. Then views of Lake Brunner, Refuge Island and Mitchell Falls. The Teremakau [now Taramakau] River is next, one view showing the road bridge, and one showing the flying fox (wire bridge) leading over to the Teremakau Hotel. These are followed by scenes along the Otira Gorge, including Warnock's Nob, Westley's Creek (Wesley Creek), and Starvation Point, before reaching Porter's Pass, Broken River, Arthur's Pass and the Devil's Punch Bowl Falls. The last sequence show Grasmere Station, Castle Hill Station (with one view of snow gates) and Craigieburn Station; the town of Cass; Bealey, Bealey Hotel, and Bealey Gorge, Lake Pearson and Lake Mapourika. Other Titles - New Zealand Views, by James Ring, Greymouth, N. Z. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with quarterbound red cover, red leather corners and spine; entitled "New Zealand Views, by James Ring, Greymouth, N.Z."; 24 x 31 cm

Date: [190-?]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

Reference: PAColl-0959-02

Description: Scenic photographs of Castle Hill, taken ca 1900s by unidentified photographer/s Includes views of rock formations, most of which have one or more people to show the scale of huge boulders with the effects of weathering, including a huge channel cut by a stream flowing through a cliff. Others show a group of four men with laden bicycles; a group of men and women in a large horse-drawn coach with the boulder-strewn hill behind; the Waimakariri River; and a farm building in an area of tussock. Quantity: 83 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: 1886

Reference: A-159-040

Description: View of the homestead and surrounding houses for Charles Enys' station Castle Hill. Title inscribed in ink by artist on mount (156 x 226 mm), with date 3/7/86 (i.e. 7 March 1886); "in Eurys" corrected in pencil to "Mr Eny's" Other Titles - Castle Hill Station in Eurys Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed in pencil (for initials compare A-159-037/043). Title in ink, with 'in Eurys' corrected in pencil to 'Mr Eny's' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on paper 125 x 173 mm

Date: 1860s

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Barker, Alfred Charles (Dr), 1819-1873; Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887; Lendenfeld, Robert Ignaz Lendlmayer von, 1858-1913

Reference: PA1-f-080

Description: Slip inside front cover reads "This album was given by Sir Julius von Haast to Lady von Haast on 21st November 1868. The scenes in it are of Mt. Cook; the Otira; J.D. Enys at his station, Castle Hill; Sir Julius & Lady von Haast & H.F. von Haast in their garden at Gluckauf, Avonside, Christchurch; Rakuia [i.e. Rakaia]; Sumner with Haast in front of Cave Rock; Hokitika; Christchurch scenes". Two photographs on page 45 have hand-written captions by Julius von Haast's son H.F. von Haast. One is of St. Mary's Church (Heathcote), and the other shows the von Haast family at their home at 62 River Road, Avonside, 1868. This inscription reads "Mr. B.W. Patterson, the Oamaru Woosted & Woollen Mills Ltd. sent me this photograph, labelled "Dr. von Haast & family, 62 River Road, Avonside, 1868, & wrote that it was 'a photo taken by my grandfather of your father's old house in Chch.' The date is marked on the photo". Other Titles - New Zealand views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark purple leather cover, impressed pattern, entitled "New Zealand views" in gold lettering; 31.5 x 39.5 cm

Date: [ca 1870-1900]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1043

Description: The papers in this folder relate to R D D Maclean and include letters relating to business, farming, donations and charitable gifts Maclean has made, requests for help gaining employment, one unsigned [Edmond Bourgeois?] providing a detailed summary of his and his family's financial situation and a list of his children's health status (one died) and that of himself and his wife, land matters including re Goathurst Farm, court matters, thanks for his grant of land to Napier Education Board (1893) and other matters. Also includes photocopy of photograph from John D Enys of an American snow gate with design of same. Letter to Algernon C Fountaine requesting to paint his portrait, 1900. Identified persons entered under Name. Language - Letter from Edmond [?] Bourgeois, Napier, in French Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Original of photograph of Castle Hill Station's American snow gate.

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877

Reference: PAColl-5981

Description: General view of Castlehill Station, Canterbury which belonged to John and Charles Enys. At the centre of the image can be seen some of the station buildings sheltered by plantations of exotic trees. Behind these is a range of mountains. In the foreground can be seen an American snow gate. Remainder of photographs comprise Robert Hart's house in Hobson St, Thorndon, Wellington and two portraits of Archibald John McLean, taken circa 1877 and 1880, respectively. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-0032, folders 889,897-898 : McLean family : Papers.

Date: [Between 1865 and 1868?]

From: Hewitt, G R V: Sealy album and two loose prints

By: Sealy, Edward Percy, 1839-1903

Reference: PA1-f-068

Description: Album of photographs taken by Edward Percy Sealy during the 1860s. They show views of Canterbury and the road to the West Coast, including the houses and farm buildings at Castle Hill Station (home of John Davies Enys), and those at the Orari Gorge Station (home of Charles George Tripp). Landscapes mostly show the route from Porter's Pass, past Mount William, through the Bealey Valley, Arthur's Pass, the Ragged Range, Otira Gorge, Orari Gorge, the Rakaia River, and views of Mount Cook (Aoraki) and Mount Sefton. Several photographs show winter scenes in the Alford Forest, followed by summer scenes in the forest. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown leather cover, impressed design, entitled "Photographic views" in gold lettering; 32 x 40 cm