Deborah Fitz-Herbert
Looking back at libraries in Kirikiriroa/Hamilton - Part 5
Wednesday 31 July | Library History,
Hamilton's Carnegie Library c. 1925 2023 marked the 30th year that the Central Library has been operating from our current location in Garden Place.
The Pick family car
Thursday 21 March | Camera Obscura,
This week’s image continues our exploration of the Pick Collection. Today’s slide shows the Pick family car outside the coolstore at Rukuhia, which still stands next to SH3 today.
Hamilton West Town Belt
Friday 1 March | Camera Obscura,
Hamilton West town belt 1912 HCL_07049 This is a view we cannot get nowadays except from a hedge-hopping aeroplane.
Loading "Rawhiti" at Hamilton
Friday 1 March | Camera Obscura,
This is the Roose wharf in Hamilton in the days of very little mechanisation in shipping.
No. 2 Dam
Friday 1 March | Camera Obscura,
Do you know this spot? 1978. 01. 454 This week’s idyllic lake scene comes from the Pick Collection, a collection of personal papers and images from Mr R. D.
Masonic Lodge
Friday 1 March | Camera Obscura,
This small building of great mystery still stands in Grey Street, opposite Steele Park, as it has done since 1877, one hundred and forty-six years since the foundation stone was…
A man in tennis uniform
Friday 1 March | Camera Obscura,
1981. 01. 96 Following on from Perry’s image last week to continue the tennis theme, this week we have a photograph found in the Norris Collection.
Tennis party
Friday 1 March | Camera Obscura,
The McCaw family HCL_02713 Anyone for tennis? A common call in the books of P. G. Wodehouse …, or was it?
Carols by Candlelight
Wednesday 28 February | Camera Obscura,
Programme for Carols by Candlelight Hamilton Christmas Festival held at Hamilton High School ib 16 December 1951. Proceeds went to the Hamilton Branch of Y. W. C. A.
Christmas window display at H. & J. Court Ltd 1965
Wednesday 28 February | Camera Obscura,
Christmas decorations used to go up all around towns and cities in December. Nowadays they are up alot earlier.
Hamilton Technical School workshop classroom
Wednesday 28 February | Camera Obscura,
Boys learning engineering trades working at benches, lathes, on a steam pump, and on a motorcycle.
Burley's Drapery Store
Wednesday 28 February | Camera Obscura,
Flier for Burley's Drapery Store advertising clothing, manchester, fabric and other items by mail order HCLE_00059 This flier promotes goods available at Burley’s Drapery Store in 1929, not long before the…