Local History / February 2023
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Bond Store to be issued with Earthquake-Prone Building notice
- Wellington City Council
- The Bond Store building, home to Wellington Museum, will receive an Earthquake-Prone Building (EPB) notice next month.
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Wellington Museum, Jervois Quay, Lambton, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Plating Up: a talk about the history of Wellington’s restaurant trade
- Wellington City Libraries
- From basic grill restaurants serving countless plates of sausages & chips to French cuisine served on fine porcelain, through to… Continue reading Plating Up: a talk about the history of Wellington’s restaurant trade →
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Do we really need to heritage list any more of central Wellington?
- Talk Wellington
- Heritage NZ are currently consulting on Category 1-listing the Hannah Playhouse. Some bigwigs support it but guest poster Peter encourages us to oppose it in the consultation – open til 3 March Much criticism of heritage listing modern buildings, particularly those of this architectural style, Brutalism, is rooted in architectural snobbery. This post is not about...
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Hannah Playhouse, 12, Cambridge Terrace, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Louis Peter Christeson
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Louis was born about 1861 in Denmark. He married Eveline Stephens (born 1866) in 1883 in New Zealand and became a naturalised citizen the same year. His profession was recorded […]
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Alan & Elizabeth Loxton
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- The couple had only been married a few months before they were accidentally drowned in Wellington Harbour in 1899. Alan Parsons Loxton was born in NSW in 1866. He trained […]
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Robert Holliday
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Robert (Robie) was born in 1855 in Genoa, Italy, the son of Thomas Holliday and Ann Jeal. Thomas moved the family from England due to his work as an Engineer. […]
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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George Presswood
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- G.H.P So mysterious to have only the initials on a plot. By accessing the digitised burial register we realised this is the plot of George Housely Presswood. Knowing how pricey […]
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wreck of the S.S. Penguin
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- The USS Co’s SS Penguin was a very familiar sight in Wellington harbour as she plied back and forward to Nelson and Picton providing a ferry service much like today. […]
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Sir Francis Bell
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Francis Henry Dillon Bell was born in 1851 the eldest son of the former New Zealand Company agent Francis Dillon Bell. He was educated at Auckland Grammar, Otago Boys, and […]
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Albert Martin
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Albert Martin (1882-1940) Last November Margaret, who is one of our Members, put us in touch with Alan and Yvonne Townsend who she found looking a bit lost in the […]
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Dr David Nairn
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- (information supplied in part by one of his descendants) David was born in 1863 in Dundee, Scotland to William Nairn and his wife Elizabeth Mathewson. William was a merchant linen […]
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Reginald Berry
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Reginald George James Berry (known as James)designer of the first New Zealand decimal coins Berry was born in London in 1906. He went to Russell Hill boarding school and won […]
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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