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Fire Brigade; new appliance handed over, 6 August 1938.Mounted rifles, Trentham. Line of mounted horses.Silverstream railway bridge 2 (1903-1957); distant view downstream.Main Street, Upper Hutt, January 1948 (L6)Rugby league ball; group, with trophies. [P3-418-1647]Queen Street saleyards; cattle sale. Timber industry; Campbell's Sawmills Ltd, Karapoti; experimental logging tractor on bush tramway bridge. Upper Hutt Rugby Football Club 1928; juniors.New Zealand Railways locomotive, S 0-6-4 T class; number 213Timber industry; axemen at Narrow Neck, Whiteman's Valley.Beauty pageant audience, A & P show, 1967Rimutaka Incline; goods train and surfacemen engaged in track work. [P2-18-26]St Hilda's Anglican Church, south side of Main Street.Soldiers, Trentham 1916 [P2-110-280]Hapai club 8th birthday, Rugby gymnasium; Māwai Hakona Māori concert party and audienceFire; Benge & Pratt's store, Main Street; remains.Hazelwoods Father Christmas 1972. [P2-437-863]Biggs store, Main Street; interior. [P2-939-2195]Upper Hutt railway station 1955; under constructionSchool Patrol Christmas party.Woolworths Checkers of the Year competition 1966; audienceLa De Da's, rugby gym, c. 1967Hazelwoods Women's Day fancy dress entrants.A & P show; cars; Shelly Motors' stand; Volkswagen Karmann Ghia coupeUpper Hutt Town Board office; corner of Main and Russell streetsKenneth Graham Rosson 21st.Ōrongomai Marae 1998; Waitangi open day; Māwai Hakona whanau demonstrate the art of taiaha Dunlop tyre assembly; cross-ply, small sizesArmy charter march 6, Main Street.The Upper Hutt District in the 1840s, by S.C. Brees
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Rugby Club Social [P1-2316-4706]Fire safety; Trentham Community Safety team, before graduation, Wigram Airbase, Christchurch.Pahl/Phal(?) 21st, Upper Hutt Club. Stokes Valley Cosmopolitan Club; "Priscilla - The Tribute" show coming; Liz Parker, transsexual.Silverstream Kindergarten 042Pam Killalea Collection 04Upper Hutt School, Room 4; 1987Hazelwoods Social [P1-2090-4480]Tessa and Jack's wedding 6; grand paradeTasman Vaccine Laboratory; pouring of concrete for nuclear-irradiation plant, for sterilising medical supplies.[P1-1277-3667]Girl Guides Association; Selling biscuits; ca 1980sWallaceville Research Centre buildings; unidentified unitsTrentham Pharmacy, 9a Camp Street to move to 498 Fergusson Drive; owner Geraldine Sims.Maidstone Intermediate; Cherie Muller wins New Zealand Insurance Life Vision art award.Mounted Rifles WW1 CampHouse relocation; from 10 Parliament St, Lower Hutt, to Karapoti 9; larger unitTrentham Army Camp 16Upper Logan Street, Upper Hutt; a view south to Main Street - 1991.Campbell Family Photograph; Aunty Rose; ca 1920sTony Howard's German Shepherd meets a baby thrush.RSA ball 1972; table groups. [P1-6855-9245]Christmas Parade 1977; Heretaunga Players 2.Watts children. [P1-6239-8629]Main Street, south side; No. 48; murals on the east wall 1.Te Marua School 1964; class photoUpper Hutt School, Room 5; 2002Brown Owl School 1988; 'Dorethy Aioena' with letter of thanks from mayor of Gisborne City, after Cyclone Bola.Heretaunga Players production of King Cole's Court, 1959Humphrey Rainey, Ōrongomai marae, 1988Hazelwoods; staff member Gordon Hook; grocery.King of Totara Lodge Raft Race 002Wedding; Brian John Pearce and Dale Susan Stewart; 27; groom's brother Ken and wife Sandra. [P1-8763-11153]Silverstream Volunteer Fire Brigade, 1980; 50th anniversary celebration; display; car fireUpper Hutt School, Netball Senior Team A; 1965Mangaroa School; principal Dave Murray, Terri Pickering, Adam Rowe, Jacquelyn Reille in the new administration area.Brown Owl School 1983; snow, 18th June.Highland Gathering, 2002, Harcourt Park; sack racers, unidentified.A & P show; cars; Shelly Motors' stand; Volkswagen Karmann Ghia coupe, Variant estate car, 'Beetle'.Kingsley Heights 1978 08; subdivision 01Hazelwoods Father Christmas 1966; cave; Grumpy. [P1-4637-7027]Hazelwoods Father Christmas 1968; cave. [P1-4539-6929]21st birthday; Marilyn Scott. [P1-5782-8172]Remutaka Hill Road from the Summit, Looking EastSilver Plough ploughing match 1966, Mangaroa Valley.Wedding; Carol Hoskins 1. [P1-4965-7355]Heretaunga Players; Windmill Land.Karate; KSK Karate at 585 Fergusson Drive; unidentified students.Mr & Mrs W. Hitchings, married 65 years.Riding for the Disabled; president Adrienne Manthel and vice-patron Lady Beattie at new site in County Lane.Paul Hawker, author of 'Soul Survivor', about a month spent in the Tararuas.
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UPPER HUTT RECOLLECT is the interactive database for the Upper Hutt City Library Heritage Collections. It provides easy online access to a rich store of heritage material relating to Upper Hutt City, its people, and events.

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Take yourself on a virtual walking tour telling the history of Upper Hutt's CBD.