Mounted colour view of Levin Post Office with picket fence, and with the staff standing on the steps.

Label on front reads: “Levin Post Office. Built 1903. To be demolished 1981.”

Inscription on back reads: “Taken by travelling agent while I was in Auckland. H E Bowen”

See also 1977.011.0008

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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “H. Rippin, 92 Queen St., Levin.”

Also written on back with blue felt-tip pen: “May 20th 1910.Memorial Service, Death Edward VII.”

Embossed mounting board – badly damaged & caused damage to photo. Embossed bottom right corner – F.A. Butterfield

Service of Commemoration of the death of Edward VII, 1910. Taken from opposite the Post Office in Oxford Street, a large crowd holds sheets of paper, possibly song sheets for singing during the service. This photograph is taken slightly to the left of photograph 2000.510.0001 and shows the flag “Huia” which belongs to Ngati Huia.

1 B&W photo print, mounted – Fragile, damaged

See also 2000.510.0001

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Service of Commemoration of the death of Edward VII, 1910. Taken from opposite the Post Office in Oxford Street, a large crowd holds sheets of paper, possibly song sheets for singing during the service. The photograph is taken slightly to the left of photograph 2000.510.0001 and shows the flag “Huia” which belongs to Ngati Huia.

1 B&W photo print copy of 2000.516.0001

See 2000.516.0003 for Negative used to produce this photo.

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Penciled on back: “40. Opening of new Levin Post Office, 15th February 1983. ‘Chronicle’ photograph No. 83 253.”

Stamped on back with black ink – Horowhenua Historical Society. Acc. No. Date 20/10/90

A crowd gatered on Oxford Street during the opening of the new Levin Post Office, 15 February 1983. This photograph shows the Oxford Street frontage of the new building with the clock tower showing the time at 11:07.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted

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Printed bottom of photo: “Post Office. Shannon. No.3600.”

Written on back with black ballpoint pen: “B.P. Moynihan”

Letter penciled on back: “Dear Dick, grannie says she is going to come and see us soon I must get ready for school with love from Ellen.”

Post Office, Plimmer Terrace, Shannon c.1920. The Post Office is situated on the eastern side of Plimmer Terrace. This photograph shows a wooden building with a concrete frontage, with several men staning on the footpath outside.

1 B&W photo postcard (Fragile, damaged)

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Inscription on reverse reads: “To Mum from Dominik 9.4.08”

Mounted black and white photograph of the Levin Post Office c 1908. The Post Office staff are standing on the steps at the front of the two storied building.

see also 1977.011.0007

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Mounted black and white photograph of the Levin Post Office c 1908. The Post Office staff arfe standing on the steps at the front of the two storied building.

Photograph discoloured on left-hand side.

See also 1977.011.0007 and 1977.011.0008

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Penciled on back: “Opening Weraroa P.O.”

A large group of people stands while the official party sits to listen to a speech from Sir Joseph Ward at the opening of the Weraroa Post Office, April 21, 1910. This ceremony took place at the Levin Railway Station, opposite the Post Office at Weraroa, and the building in this photograph shows the main entrance of the Railway Station which opened into the waiting room.

1 B&W photo print, mounted

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Written on back with red and blue ballpoint pen: “Pictured is L. to R, E Kear. O.L. Harrison. Postmaster C. Dunkley”

“105%”

“Tremewan”

Stamped on back with black ink: “D and P. by Guthrie of Shannon”

Shannon Post Office, c.1907. Those in the photograph are from left to right: – Mr E. Kear, Mr Octavius Louis Harrison (Postmaster) and Mr C. Dunkley.

1 B&W photo print, copy

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Parade to commerorate the death of Edward VII, 1910 . Taken from opposite the Post Office in Oxford Street, a large crowd holds sheets of paper, possibly song sheets for singing during the service.

1 B&W photo print copy of 2000.510.0001

See also 2000.516.0001

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Written on back with blue pencil top left corner: “Howell”

Also written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “Opening of Levin P.O. about 1903.” {crossed out with pencil}

Penciled on back: “Ed. VII Commemoration 1910 ?”

Embossed bottom right corner – Butterfield & Johnson.

Parade to commemorate the death of Edward VII, 1910. Taken from opposite the Post Office in Oxford Street, a large crowd holds sheets of paper, possibly song sheets for singing during the service.

1 B&W photo print, mounted

See also 2000.516.0001

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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “(6) L. to Right Jessie Clayton Mr Behrens P.M. Bert Lockett Melva Pope ? 194?”

Shannon Post Office & staff, c.1940. The five people standing on the steps at the front of the building are from left to right:- Jessie Clayton, Mr Behrens (Post Master), Bert Lockett, Melva Pope, unidentified man. An unidentified flag is flying above the building.

1 B&W photo print, copy

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Laser copy. Negative held by Alexander Turnbull Library.

Visit of Navel ratings (Bluejackets) to Levin. The ratings are in ranks facing the Levin Railway Station which is situated at Weraroa, and a large crowd forms a square around them taking up the width of the road. There is a group of mounted servicemen on horseback, some civilians on horseback, two women in a horsedrawn gig and a number of people appear to have travelled to the occasion on bicycles. It is possible that the boys from the Training Farm are the group who are standing facing the ratings.

Caption reads: “Boys Training Farm Wereroa – Visit of Bluejackets Levin Station”

1 B&W photocopy

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Typed on piece of paper glued to back: “Shifting 1/2 of police cell block from the site where Hodder and Tolley erected their building. North eastern corner of Exeter and Bristol Streets. Syd Mudgeway and Vernon Mudgeway in foreground.”

Written on back with black ballpoint pen: “1977 Built a house at Hokio Beach Levin. F.C.S.” and “Original at Vernon Mudgeway, Levin, Power St., 1986.”

Syd and Vernon Mudgeway shifting one of the old Police cells onto the back of a truck for relocation in Levin, c.1956

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Typed information on paper with photo -

The Court House Levin. Built 1903. Eileen and Arnold Bagrie (aged 11) c.1920. Original photo Mrs Arnold Bagrie.

Colleen and Arnold Bagrie outside the Levin Court House c.1920. The Court house was constructed in 1903.

1 B&W photo print copy

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