Invercargill (N.Z.)
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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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COLLINSON, Ellen Mary Wenham (Nellie) interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau
Record Group
Identifier: H0377
Overview
Nellie was 95 at the time of this interview. She talks about her parents coming to New Zealand from the UK and arriving in Bluff. Her father was involved in the building part of the hospital in Invercargill when it was sited in Dee Street, the Mataura freezing works and the Royal Mail Hotel in Lumsden. Her mother, Grace Wilson, was very good at needlework. Nellie talks about her school days and games played as a child. On leaving school, Nellie went to work for H&J Smiths. She then nursed...
Dates:
1993
Colyer's Princess Hotel, Dee Street
Digital Image
Identifier: D27520001_009
Dates:
c.1870
Found in:
Invercargill City Council Archives
Commemorative Airmail Envelope to commemorate the first non-stop air mail from Auckland to Invercargill December, 1933
Item — Box Ephemera 1: Series S2736; Series S2835; Series S2836; Series S2837
Identifier: S27360001
Scope and Contents
Addressed to Mrs M Chisnall, "Ohine?", Hinds via Ashburton.
Stamp: By Air Mail Auckland-Invercargill Per "Faith in Australia" 12th December 1933
Note from donor: Envelope was sent to my great grandmother Marion Chisnall by her nephew [I think] Ernest Chisnall who lived in the Pahiatua area.
Stamp: By Air Mail Auckland-Invercargill Per "Faith in Australia" 12th December 1933
Note from donor: Envelope was sent to my great grandmother Marion Chisnall by her nephew [I think] Ernest Chisnall who lived in the Pahiatua area.
Dates:
1933
Conon Street - February 1940 [Flooding], 1940
Item — Box 6: Series S0102
Identifier: S01020005
Scope and Contents
Photograph showing how badly the trams on Conon Street were affected by the flooding in 1940. Photographer unknown.
Dates:
1940
Conon Street - February 1940 [Flooding]
Digital Image
Identifier: D01020005
Dates:
1940
Found in:
Invercargill City Council Archives
Conon Street Swimming Pool [2 photos], c.1990s
Item — Box 13: Series S2726
Identifier: S27260035
Consecrations of All Saints Church, Ryal Bush
Digital Image
Identifier: D22910003
Dates:
c.1932
Found in:
Invercargill City Council Archives
Consecrations of All Saints Church, Ryal Bush, c.1932
Item — Drawer West 5 d: Series S2291
Identifier: S22910003
Scope and Contents
Two photographs of people standing outside All Saints Church, Ryal Bush - one in front of the former wooden building taken possibly before demolition, and the later possibly when it was consecrated in June 1932. Labels give years of when each building was consecrated.
Photographer unknown.
Photographer unknown.
Dates:
c.1932
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