18 February 2008: A Capital Suburb: Pipitea Thorndon

Thorndon Pipitea

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Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869: From the Pah Pipitea, Port Nicholson, December 1840.

View from inside Pipitea Pa, looking north towards the Hutt Valley and the Rimutaka Ranges drawn by William Mein Smith, first surveyor general to the New Zealand Company. Early records state that close to two hundred members of Te Matehou, a sub tribe of Te Ati Awa, were living at Pipitea in 1840. Cultivations extended from the pa on the shore across what is now the suburb of Thorndon on to the slopes of Ahu-mai-rangi (Tinakori Hill). Visible on lower ground on the right are a wharenui, and two whata ( food storage buildings).
Pen and brown ink drawing 205 x 284 mm. Drawings and Prints Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library. Reference number: C-011-005

A view of the junction of Thorndon Quay and Mulgrave Street showing shops and houses in Thorndon Quay.

A view of the junction of Thorndon Quay and Mulgrave Street showing shops and houses in Thorndon Quay. Old St Paul’s Cathedral in the centre and the Thistle Inn on the left still stand today. Taken in the late 1860s before reclamation had distanced Thorndon from the sea.
Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library. Reference number: 1/2-021203-F

Jessie Cruickshank Crawford arrived in Wellington with her husband, James Coutts Crawford, in late 1857.

Jessie Cruickshank Crawford arrived in Wellington with her husband, James Coutts Crawford, in late 1857. Although they owned a farm at Mirimar (then called Watts Peninsula), they lived in a number houses in Thorndon in the 1860s. This photograph is thought to have been taken in the early 1860s and, from the movement in the skirt of her elaborate Victorian dress, on a windy day.
Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library. Reference number: PA1-f-019-23-2

John Coates and Naomi Hutchinson, with their children Ida and Horatio Aston, outside their general store and post office `Manchester House', Tinakori Road, Thorndon.

John Coates and Naomi Hutchinson, with their children Ida and Horatio Aston, outside their general store and post office `Manchester House', Tinakori Road, Thorndon. A Royal Mail car is parked outside. The photograph was taken about 1910 and the building stood a little to the north of the present day Shepherds Arms Hotel.
Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library. Reference number; 1/2-147537-F

Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage died in Wellington on 27 March 1940.

Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage died in Wellington on 27 March 1940. Here his funeral procession is seen passing the cenotaph in Lambton Quay at the beginning its journey to Bastion Point in Auckland where he was buried. In the background on the right the building with the tower is a cinema, originally the Artcraft Theatre but by this time renamed the Tivoli. The wooden building behind the cenotaph was Government House until 1907 when it was taken over for government offices. It is now the site of the Beehive.
Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library. Reference number: 1/1-021741-G

Little Hawkestone St, Thorndon in October 1951.

Little Hawkestone St, Thorndon in October 1951. This alley ran between Hawkestone Street and Portland Crescent some thirty metres from the Molesworth Street corner. The buildings were demolished and and a high rise development built on the site in the 1980s.
Evening Post Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library. Reference number:114/360/15-F