Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “(3) M.D. Father Branaghan Outside Club Hotel.”
Penciled on back: “c / 8”
Father Branaghan standing beside a car outside the Club Hotel, Shannon.
1 B&W photo print, copy
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Inscription on reverse of mounted photograph reads: “Lent by Mrs Kirkcaldie. nee Marjorie Kebbel daughter of John Kebbell. Now given. Cook’s Family Hotel now known as the Foxton but of course re-built.”
Foxton Family Hotel, formerly the home of Thomas U Cook, in Gray Street, prior to 1892 when the building was demolished and a new hotel of the same name was opened on the present site in Main Street.
Two original photographs, one of which is mounted, and two copies
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The Albion Hotel, Plimmer Terrace, Shannon, looking south towards the main commercial part of the town.
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Post card donated by Madge Rough.Inscription on reverse states: “Looking north undated but definately before 1912 when shops on LHS were burnt. Whytes Hotel on RHS burnt 1918”
Postcard of Main Street Foxton looking north, c.1910. Inscription on reverse states that this photograph was taken before 1912 when the shops on the western side of the street were destroyed by fire. Whytes Hotel shown centre left, was destroyed by fire in 1918. The street is unpaved and a large number of weeds are growing at the side of the street.
Postcard, comy and laminated enlargement
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The main street of Manakau showing the Post Office which was opened in 1907 and the Manakau Hotel.
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Foxton Boating and Sailing Club c.1910. Established in the early 1900s the club ran until the mid 1930s. This photograph shows a yacht on the Manawatu River near the Foxton wharf. In the centre of the photograph are the Foxton Boating and Sailing Club buildings, and in the distance the back of the Foxton Hotel.
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A number of cars parked in front of Whytes Hotel, Foxton, possibly as part of the Patriotic Parade for war wounded, c.1915. The car on the left is Fred Rout’s Foxton-Shannon Service car.
Also large mounted copy
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