Research Resources
New: 1930s Street Name Origins and listings of Extreme Weather Events and Wainuiomata Town Extensions
General Images
Museum Photograph Catalogue
Over the years this collection has been drawn from a wide variety of sources. It includes copies of photographs from the Alexander Turnbull Library, donations from settler descendants and contributions of more modern local material by museum members. A photo catalogue of more than 3,500 images also indicates those that have been digitised as part of an ongoing program. A thumbnail version of the activities section of the catalogue is now avalaible (~4.3MB). One significant collection was given to the Museum by the family of Harry Jackson Todd (1918-1993) on condition it be passed to the Alexander Turnbull Library. This was done and a chronological inventory of the ~1500 Wainuiomata area photographs (1950s-1990s) created. Some photographs are also listed in the Museum photo catalogue.
DVD Catalogue
Eight hours of footage cover 43 Wainuiomata events recorded on 8 DVD's. The earliest is 1958 - centennial of the school, originally captured on 8mm film - and the most recent is the 2015 erection of the Pukeatua Bridge at the top of the Hill. The range covers sports through to incidents and promotion and includes 1986 footage of Brugger Industries. Quality rises with the development of image capture from silent 8mm film, camcorders and digital cameras. A catalogue has been produced, and it is intended that the visiting public can peruse this to request the showing of items of interest on the Museum TV during Sunday opening hours.
History
Records of Wainui-o-mata Development Limited - A Brief History - Minutes 1927-1935 - Shareholders 1927-1932
Wainuiomata School Centennial Jubilee 1857-1957 - Baring Head Lighthouse Keepers - Maternity Hospital
Members of Parliament representing Wainuiomata 1853-2023
Local Government Members 1877 to 2022 - Licensing Trust Members 1968 to 2001
Captain John Mowlem's Piano - Ansell Jones & Co. ship's lamp
Vintage Wainuiomata Cards and May Sandilands Mason Postcard Collection
Name Index to: Tales From the Swamp by Vicky Alexander
Extreme Weather Events - Local earthquakes - Wainuiomata Town Extensions
Historical Tour of Wainuiomata Many towns have walking tours to show visitors the local historical sites. There are many of these in Wainuiomata, and people do not realise just how old some of these are. For instance, the first school was built 20 years before the one in Petone. Similarly, the first church in Petone was built over 20 years later than the one in Wainuiomata. The problem is that at 73% of the land area of Hutt City, Wainuiomata is too big to walk between many of the points of interest. So, let your mouse do the walking on this virtual tour. You may want to visit some of the sites in person.
Location Information
Street Name Origins - Central Place Name Origins - Industrial Locations - Retail / Shopping Locations - Parks and Reserves - School Locations
1930s Street Name Origins
Listings of Wainuiomata District Placenames on the Tararua Tramping Club website:
[1] Wainuiomata Topographical Features, [2] Eastern Hutt and [3] Orongorongo
Baring Head / Orua-Pouanui Park Place Name Origins
Baring Head / Orua-Pouanui Park Boulder and Rock Climbing Route Name Origins
Black Creek, Wainuiomata Bridge Name Origins
Brookfield Place Name Origins
Camp Wainui Place Name Origins
Catchpool Valley Hut Name Origins
Orongorongo Valley Hut Names
Parks of Wainuiomata
Parkway Creek, Wainuiomata Bridge Name Origins
Tracks from the Eastern Hills to Wainuiomata, Orongorongos and the Wairarapa Pre 1860s
Turakirae Head Boulder and Rock Climbing Route Name Origins
Turakirae Head Coastal Place Name Origins
Wainuiomata Mountain Bike Tracks Place Name Origins
Wainuiomata River Bridge Name Origins
Wainuiomata River Pool Names
Education
Wainuiomata School Group Photographs
Photographs of "Wainuiomata School" Class Groups can be viewed at the museum and where known people are identified. In addition to this collection the images that were attached to the OldFriends website (ex Trademe) covering Wainuiomata area schools and kindergartens were harvested and are now listed as follows:
Arakura School 1964-1999, Fernlea School 1963-1993, Glendale School and Kindergarten 1958-1995
Parkway School 1969-1970, College 1972-2000, Intermediate 1970-1990, and Kindergarten 1986 & 1989
Pencarrow School 1966-1992 and Kindergarten 1966, St Matthews 1977 & 1983 and St Patricks 1969-1991
Sun Valley School 1979-1997 and Kindergarten 1985-1992
Wainuiomata College 1963-1998, Wainuiomata Intermediate 1974-1995
Wainuiomata School (1906, 1949-1992), and Wainuiomata School Centennial Jubilee 1857-1957 - Digitised Booklet (8MB)
Woodhatton School 1963-1990.
The quality of these images is highly variable and we would welcome improved scans and the filling of apparent gaps.
Wainuiomata School Roll 21 Aug 1921
Wainuiomata Museum P1194
Back Row from left:
John David Drummond, Douglas Wright, Vernon Heathcote, Leslie George Hansen, Harold Cook, Lawson John August, William Manihera Jones, Eric James Burdan, Kenneth Hone Tamatora Jones
Second Row Standing:
Inez McCormick, Edith Margaret Thompson, Dorothy Agnes Wood, Elsie Jean Burdan, Mabel Kathleen Drummond, Rose Elinor Scholes, Alice Dawn Morris
Third Row Seated:
Kenneth Henry Whitcher, Heni Tipene Jones, _ , Audrey Ellen Wood, Rewa Ellen August, Miss Mabel Ellen Oswin, Mildred Florence Whitcher, Mary Alice Haste, Beatrice Burdan, Jack Desmond Whitcher
Front Row on Ground:
Ian Herbert Whitcher, Douglas Harold Whitcher, George Leonard Apperley, Harold Whitcher, Ernest Oliver Robert Thompson, Keith Allan Scholes, Charles William Cook, Raymond Wereta Jones, Thomas William Albert Morris, Arthur Edward Jenkins
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