Like the rest of New Zealand, Foxton entered a series of Level Four 'lockdowns' during the COVID-19 pandemic. And just like the rest of New Zealand this experience dominated community affairs. 

The Foxton Little Theatre boasted in 2022 that their new production was 'comedy for the COVID era'. 

This photograph was taken outside the Foxton Little Theatre during winter 2022 by local photographer Jacob Brookie. Jacob used a 1958 Yashica 44 camera to take this photograph. This camera was a small 'twin lens reflex' marketed towards families who wanted to take slides for a 'slide show' displayed with a projector.

One of the selling points of this camera was it's automatic film transport- it wasn't motorised, but if you wound the crank handle the film would stop in the right place. Half a century later it doesn't work as well (note the next frame of film intruding into the bottom of the photo!)

A person dressed as a tramp with long beard and trousers held up with string.

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Grandmother (?) holding baby

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Young woman sitting on lawn.

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Shirley Sunley at Shanon sub station.

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Cat at thermal area Rotorua

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Twisting yarn

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Dyeing

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Dix

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Wanganui from Durie Hill.

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Front yard of 37 Harrison Street, Wanganui.

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Tom and Dot Sunley (nee Dorothy Dean) on their wedding day, at Dean’s Homestead, now Totara Lodge, Devon Street, Levin. 25th December 1924. Dot’s mother and father far right, Jim Dean far right (jkneeling) and Tom’s Father and Mother middle row (2nd and 3rd from left seated). Refer also to : 1980.175.0001 h & i

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Kings Drive, Levin ?

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Young girls in sand hills at the beach.

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Caption: “I passed by your window.”

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Opening night conference 1992. Delegate to conference for Western Park CWI Melva Ristow.

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Waterfall or falling stream

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3 women with a box of fruit.

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Waterfall or falling stream

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Shot across water to a rock.

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An animal enclosure – possible Wellington zoo.

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An animal enclosure – possible Wellington zoo.

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Waterfall. Possibly near Rotorua? View 1 of 4

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“Nancy Barnes, Mrs Barnes and myself at Plimmerton”.

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Waterfall. Possibly near Rotorua? View 3 of 4

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Woman and child

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Tom and Dot Sunley (nee Dorothy Dean) on their wedding day, at Dean’s Homestead, now Totara Lodge, Devon Street, Levin. 25th December 1924.

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Mother with a child sitting on a chair.

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Tom and Dot Sunley (nee Dorothy Dean) on their wedding day, at Dean’s Homestead, now Totara Lodge, Devon Street, Levin. 25th December 1924. Photo of the wedding guests.

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Tom and Dot Sunley (nee Dorothy Dean) on their wedding day, at Dean’s Homestead, now Totara Lodge, Devon Street, Levin. 25th December 1924.

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