Black and white photograph plus an enlarged photocopy.

Printed at bottom of photograph – Poplar Mill, Dec. 1919.

Written on back of b/w photo – 2 Graeme Petersen

Penciled on back of monochrome enlargement – 1919 Eric Petersen

Truck loaded with bales of fibre at Poplar Mill, December 1919. Graeme or Eric Petersen in cab of truck.

Black and white photograph plus monochrome (greenish) enlargement.

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People examine the burnt out site of business premises on the western side of Oxford Street. The building to the right was A L Williams’ Tea Rooms and this was sold to Woolworths in 1947 and demolished to make way for a new building. The tea rooms was situated in the northern half of what is now (2001) the DEKA Building.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted

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Penciled on back – 37 CH

Typed on paper glued to back: “Opening of the Levin Carnegie Free Library 29/11/1911 Opened by Sir Joseph Ward, Premier. Entirely financed by Carnegie grant. Built by Mayer and Illingworth at a cost of 1450 (pounds), $2900. Sited on the north west corner of Bath and Oxford streets. Demolished March 1965. Brenmuhls and Warnocks shops are now on the site. Photo taken by Joseph Scott with a Brownie Box camera, Kodak.”

Written on back with black pen: “1981, Page 89. Chronicle Supplement.”

Opening of the Levin Carnegie Free Library, 29 November 1911. This library was situated on the north western corner of the intersection of Oxford Street and Bath Street.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted

See also2000.296.0001

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NZR Road Services truck and staff outside depot in Whyte Street, March 1961. Those in the photograph are from left to right: – Wilf Kemp, Martin Petersen and Gordon Thorby.

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Black and white photograph.

Written on blue paper attached to back – C M/H Neil Robbie.

Builder, Neil Robbie standing beside his truck and a house under construction.

Black and white photograph.

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Inscription on reverse reads: “Curly Smith married a girl Walls. c.1929 Ice cream delivery for P O Store Foxton Beach”

Curly Smith standing beside the Foxton Beach Post Office Store ice cream delivery van, c.1929. Information on the reverse of the photograph states: “Curly Smith married a girl Walls”

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Written on back with blue ballpoint pen: “This building was at the corner of Mako Mako Rd. & Oxford St., and was burned down. The late Mr Walter Bull is leaning against post. Not sure of the date, but over 50 years ago. (before 1910) From Mrs Walter Bull.”

This same information is typed on piece of paper and cellotaped to back.

Swainson & Bevan Ltd building, on the south-west corner of Mako Mako Road and Oxford Street at Weraroa before 1910. The wooden building is two storied and has a coloured iron verandah supported by wooden poles. The shop opens onto the corner of the intersection and a gas lamp is suspended from the verandah above the entrance. On Oxford street a man is driving a horse and cart while a man sits astride a horse on Mako Mako Road. Four men stand outside the entrance to the store, the one in shirtsleves leaning against the pole has been identified as Walter Bull,while another man stands beside the horse and rider. 1 Colour photo print, mounted

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Printed bottom of original, as caption: “Monday, January 12, 1953… the Mayor, Mr A.W. Parton operates a mechanical digger under the guidance of Mr N. Maddigan to take the first bite in the start of Levin’s sewerage scheme.”

Typed on piece of paper glued to back: “Page 111, Chronicle 1981 Sup.The start of the sewerage system. Mayor A.W. Parton operates the first bite, with digger, under the guidance of N. Maddigan. 12.1.1953.”

Official start of Levin’s sewerage scheme, 12 January, 1953. A crowd watches as the Mayor, Mr A W Parton operates a mechanical digger.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted (with 2000.018.0239a)

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Written on back with black felt-tip pen: “Ranfurly Shield Howhenua Victorious I Beleive Tgame F TREMEWAN”

Ranfurly Shield visit to Shannon, 1927. Seven men are pictured with the shield which is between two men and sitting on the running board of a car.

1 B&W photo print, copy

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Weraroa & Railway Stn. – (caption). 1 B&W postcard.

Main Road at Weraroa showing the Weraroa Hotel on the corner of Ward Street, and the Levin Railway Station on the left in the distance. In the centre of the photo is a horse and trap, and a youth leans on a bicycle chatting to two young girls. Two women and a girl have just walked past the general store, which doubles as a registry office for servants, and there are others outside the hotel and other shops.

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Printed on back: “Photograph courtesy of Foxton Historical Society. PERREAU’S BAKERY 1904. Mr M.E. Perreau was not only renowned for the cakes and pies he baked, he was a long-serving Mayor and member of virtually every organization in Foxton at the time.”

Perreau’s Bakery, Foxton, 1904. Staff from the bakery line up on the footpath outside the bakery, while the horse-drawn delivery cart is to the right of the photograph.

1 Sepia tone print

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Black and white photograph.

Written on back – Dave Garwood M/H used

Dave Garwood outside Foxton Little Theatre, 1980’s-90’s. Mr Garwood is pictured standing beside his truck which has painted on the drivers door -

“Dave Garwood The Handyman Man and Foxton Sweep Phone 3638405 anytime”

Black and white photograph.

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J H Hoffman and his hearse 1924. Mr Hoffman is dressed formally and stands in front of the hearse which has a long carriage and class windows which have blinds with tassels.

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“Skinny” (?) Robinson riding his bicycle past a shed which has a car parked in front of it, c. 1930s.

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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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Black and white photograph.

Written on back – Joe Pond

Written on blue paper attached to back – C M/H

Joe Pond representing New Labour Party, 1980’s-90’s.

Black and white photograph.

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Inscription on reverse reads: “Donated Mrs A Jordan”

An unidentified group of people sit on rugs alonside their car having a picnic at the beach. In the background is a horse and gig.

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Black and white photograph.

Written on back with blue ballpoint pen – MH 8.3.95 Mock Accident

Written on blue paper glued to back – C MIH

Foxton Fire Brigade take part in an exercise involving a mock traffic accident, 1995.

Black and white photograph.

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Postcard donated by Mrs E.M.Wood 372 Oxford St, Levin

The “new” Manawatu Hotel, Foxton. A E Shadboldt was the proprieter at the time this photograph was taken. A horse, bicycles and a horse-drawn carriage are the featured means of transportation in this photograph. Four women stand on the upper floor balcony and a number of men stand on the footpath outside the two storied weatherboard building.

I postcard and one print.

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The original photograph is mounted on board. Inscription on reverse reads: “Given by Podmore family.”

The sepia coloured copy has been fixed to thick paper and has inscribed below the photograph: “Bock and Coley’s Flaxmills, Stewart Street, Foxton, 1912. (Negative held by I R Matheson 1975).”

The black and white copy has inscribed on reverse: “Original given by Podmore family.” and “Bock & Coley Mill.”

A sepia coloured photograph showing an unidentified group of 18 workers standing in front of the Bock and Coley flaxmill, Foxton. There is a man standing on one dray pulled by two horses to the right of the photograph and in the centre and left behind the row of workers are two more such drays. The mill is made up of four buildings.

Donated by Podmore family

2 copies - original is sepia coloured as is one copy, the second copy is black and white

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Black and white photograph.

Written on back – 1706 – M/H B Jack

Written on green paper attached to back – C M/H

Bruce Jack, panelbeater, alongside new chassis straightening machine.

Black and white photograph.

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Inscription on reverse reads: “Queen St construction.”

An unidentified man stands in front of a horse which is harnessed to a cart with small wheels and a hose attached presumably to provide the “hot mix’ used during the construction of Queen Street.

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Swainson & Bevan Ltd building, south west corner of Mako Mako Road and Oxford Street at Weraroa before 1910. The two storied wooden building has a coloured iron verandah supported by wooden poles. The shop opens onto the corner of the intersection and a gas lamp is suspended from the verandah above the entrance. The road outside the building is unsealed. On the seventh and eight windows from the left on the upper floor, the words “public” and “library” are inscribed.

1 B&W photo print , damaged lower right corner

See also: – 2000.471.0001

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