Thorndon and Local History
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Talking books with emily perkins
- Katherine Mansfield House
- On Tuesday 3 September 2024 we hosted award-winning writer Emily Perkins for a memorable fundraising event to support Katherine Mansfield House & Garden. Here are some of the books and writers she mentioned.
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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Meet the medlar
- Katherine Mansfield House
- British orchardist Jane Steward gave a fascinating talk about medlar trees and their fruit which is now available online. We have a medlar tree at Katherine Mansfield House & Garden and use its fruit to make jelly each year.
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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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In memory of leslie heron beauchamp
- Katherine Mansfield House
- Each year on 25 April, Anzac Day commemorates all New Zealanders killed in war and honours returned service personnel. At Katherine Mansfield House & Garden, we particularly remember Katherine Mansfield’s younger brother, Leslie Heron Beauchamp, who died in the First World War, aged 21.
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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Is a Prime Minster Entitled to a Nice House?
- Eye of the Fish
- There’s been a lot about this house in the news recently – both the paper kind of news, and the TV kind of news. May as well get my news from proper news sources while they exist, seeing as it sounds like soon nothing is going to exist in the news world. What will we do when 3News and OneNews are ditched, and Stuff has gone bust again? Its hard enough to even buy a paper these days, as increasingly nowhere sells them. What do we do in the future – just make up our own news as we go? Seems to be working fine for some people! Anyway, THIS is the house in question:
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Premier House, 260, Tinakori Road, Paekākā, Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Sylvia townsend warner on the letters of katherine mansfield
- Katherine Mansfield House
- In 1929, writer Sylvia Townsend Warner published a piece in The New York Herald Tribune about Katherine Mansfield’s letters, entitled ‘Death and The Lady: The Letters of Katherine Mansfield’. This blog post introduces the piece, which you can read in full.
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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Talking books with annabel langbein
- Katherine Mansfield House
- On Tuesday 28 November 2023 we were delighted to host culinary queen and lifelong adventurer Annabel Langbein for a fundraising event to support Katherine Mansfield House & Garden. Here are some of the books and writers she mentioned.
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The tale of our typewriter
- Katherine Mansfield House
- Right in time for school holidays, you can now try writing like Katherine Mansfield! We recently purchased a Corona 3 typewriter from a local auction house, the exact same model as the one Katherine Mansfield used.
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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Katherine mansfield and coronations
- Katherine Mansfield House
- There were two coronations during Katherine Mansfield’s lifetime – King Charles’ great-great grandfather Edward VII in August 1902, and his great-grandfather George V in June 1911. This blog post looks at her experience of them.
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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Digging into the past
- Katherine Mansfield House
- For New Zealand Archeology Week 2023 we look back at the archaeological work undertaken at Katherine Mansfield House & Garden between 1987 and 1988.
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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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History of Thorndon Pool
- Wellington City Council
- The oldest pool in Wellington is tucked away in Thorndon – but did you know it used to be located where the port on Aotea Quay is now?
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Thorndon Summer Pool, Murphy Street, Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Event to mark 100th anniversary of katherine mansfield's death
- Katherine Mansfield House
- On 9 January 1923, a small event was held at the Katherine Mansfield Memorial in Katherine Mansfield Memorial Park in Thorndon, Wellington, to mark the anniversary date of the centenary of Katherine Mansfield's death.
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Katherine Mansfield Memorial Park, Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Talking books with dame jane campion
- Katherine Mansfield House
- On Tuesday 1 November we had the privilege of hosting Dame Jane Campion for a fundraising event to support Katherine Mansfield House & Garden. Unsurprisingly for an award-winning filmmaker, Dame Jane knows how to tell a story. She also knows the power of stories and shared how reading has been so essential to her life. Here are some of the books and writers she mentioned.
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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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And other stories
- Katherine Mansfield House
- To mark the centenary of the publication of Katherine Mansfield's third short story collection, 'The Garden Party and Other Stories', we held a winter series of readings with Wellington writers. We asked each writer to choose one of the lesser-known stories from the collection to read out loud and chat about on a Sunday afternoon. This blog post outlines the notes from each discussion.
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Katherine and photography
- Katherine Mansfield House
- During her Museum and Heritage Studies placement at Katherine Mansfield House & Garden in June 2022, Louise Mitchell took a particular interest in two boxes of collection items relating to photography. She wrote this wonderful blog post about some of the objects and the development of photography during Katherine Mansfield's lifetime. (Click title to read full post)
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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Thorndon: Wellington’s oldest suburb
- Thorndon Residents Assocation
- Home to some of the capital city’s most significant historical sites, Thorndon is the perfect example of “an oldie but a goodie” The oldest suburb in New Zealand, Thorndon is a beautiful area on the edge of Wellington’s central business district. You’ll find a unique mix of cottages, apartments and Victorian-era villas, plus shops, pubs […]
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Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Some very special objects
- Katherine Mansfield House
- Te Whare Waiutuutu Kate Sheppard House in Ōtautahi Christchurch was officially opened by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on 15 December 2020. Katherine Mansfield House & Garden Director Cherie Jacobson attended the opening and explains a special connection between the two heritage properties. (Click title to read full post)
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100 years of mansfield and switzerland
- Katherine Mansfield House
- On Tuesday 16 November 2021 the Embassy of Switzerland to New Zealand and Katherine Mansfield House & Garden held an event to celebrate the centenary of Mansfield’s time in Switzerland.
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Treasure in the children's toy box
- Katherine Mansfield House
- During her Victoria University of Wellington Museum and Heritage Studies placement at Katherine Mansfield House & Garden in June, Ailish Wallace-Buckland took a particular interest in some of the children's toys in the collection and what they can tell us about the lives of colonial Victorian children in Wellington. She wrote this wonderful blog post to share her research. Thank you Ailish!
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Karen walker's reading recommendations
- Katherine Mansfield House
- Some of those who attended our recent fundraising event 'Stories, Style and Success: An Evening with Karen Walker' have asked if we can share the titles and authors Karen spoke about when discussing her earliest memories of books, the books she loved as a teenager, and her reading habits an adult. So here is a list courtesy of Karen! (Click title to read full post)
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The gloriousness of teenage girls
- Katherine Mansfield House
- From one Wellington teenage girl to another. In Leila Barber's valedictory speech as Head Girl of Samuel Marsden Collegiate in 2020, she finds Katherine Mansfield's writing as a teenager captures something pretty special: the gloriousness of teenage girls.
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Printing in the victorian era
- Katherine Mansfield House
- During the Victorian era, printers experimented with a range of different techniques to reproduce original drawings. Developments in printing techniques, including engraving and lithography, allowed for mass printing. Many of the pictures on display at Katherine Mansfield House & Garden are copies of Victorian prints.
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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Immemorial: the story of the katherine mansfield memorial
- Katherine Mansfield House
- 1965. New Zealand literary luminaries Frank Sargeson and Dame Ngaio Marsh pose for a photograph, walking beneath the Katherine Mansfield Memorial at the south end of Fitzherbert Terrace in Thorndon. Just a few years later, that Memorial was gone and a new one had appeared just a few hundred metres away. So what happened?
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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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NEW ART AT KMHG
- Katherine Mansfield House
- Katherine Mansfield House & Garden’s recent re-interpretation introduced a number of new artworks to the house. From the Queen of Sheba to Mediterranean maidens, find out the story behind each of these four artworks, then come and find them in the house!
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MANSFIELD IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
- Katherine Mansfield House
- Katherine Mansfield rarely fails to be relevant. Even now, in this time of COVID-19, Mansfield’s experience offers insight. From the cholera and typhoid outbreaks of her youth, to the 1918 influenza pandemic and the tuberculosis that would cause her death, Mansfield was no stranger to public health emergencies.
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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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MANSFIELD UNPLUGGED: THE POETRY OF KM
- Katherine Mansfield House
- Who was Boris Petrovsky? Lily Heron? Julian Mark? Despite the pseudonyms, Professor Jane Stafford suggests Mansfield's poetry is where we glimpse the true Mansfield, Mansfield 'unplugged'. (Click title to read full post)
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Redevelopment progress at Katherine Mansfield House & Garden
- Katherine Mansfield House
- We are almost halfway through our planned time closed for reinterpretation at Katherine Mansfield House & Garden. As with any building work, we have experienced our fair share of delays and complications. However, we can update you on progress concerning: o Weatherboards o Roofing o Exterior Painting
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FROM VICTORIAN TO RENOVATION AND BACK: ALTERATION AND RESTORATION WORK AT 25 TINAKORI ROAD
- Katherine Mansfield House
- In anticipation of restoration work on Katherine Mansfield House & Garden this year, here is an overview of changes that 25 Tinakori Road has gone through from its initial construction in 1888 to its opening as Katherine Mansfield Birthplace. (Click title to read full post)
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Notes on a special piano
- Katherine Mansfield House
- KMHG’s lovely small John Broadwood & Sons piano was sounding very off key. An attempt to have it tuned turned into an opportunity to learn more about a very special object in the museum collection.
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From the Ashes: the Birth of the Thorndon Society and the Residential E Zone
- Katherine Mansfield House
- The construction of Wellington's urban motorway came at a cost to Thorndon's built heritage, including a former home of Katherine Mansfield - the setting for some of her best known New Zealand stories. It also resulted in the community lobbying for protection of built heritage, which helped ensure the preservation of Mansfield's birthplace.
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Mansfield Garden opens in Hamilton
- Katherine Mansfield House
- Hamilton Gardens' newest garden has been arranged to show a slice of early 20th century New Zealand, drawing on KM's story The Garden Party.
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