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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 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.
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Centenarian Mrs Eva Lepper, 100, diesTotara Park Kindergarten celebrates 20 years on the job.Sullivan children. [P1-6690-9080]Upper Hutt School, Room 3; 1994Te Awa Kairangi/ Hutt River; Maoribank; ca 1912Heretaunga Players; AmadeusTotara Park bridge 6; preparing to start deck beams.Woolworths Checkers of the Year competition 1966; audience. [P1-1862-4252]Kings Empire Veterans Ladies Upper Hutt RSA 039Brown Owl School 1973; netball A-B-C-D. [P2-1326-2984]Heretaunga Players; A Christmas Carol: Sally Piper, Maisie Rees, Vivienne Collins.Pinehaven Tennis Club; new pavilion; Patron Lesley Badland with opening organiser John Donaghy.Local election candidates 2004; Hutt Valley District Health Board; Columban Devine, from Petone; 7 needed; 22nd of 24.Flood, Karapoti; Akatarawa River West; close-up on upstream side of bridge.Upper Hutt College 2003; year 12 SW (Simon Watts)STC social 2. [P1-2478-4868]Axemen's Association Scrapbook; Children's Party; 1959Hutt Valley History 62; Accelerated Progress; St James Anglican church 3Upper Hutt School class photo, 1942Dunlop People; Jock Hawkins, Ace TurnerGirl Guides Upper Hutt Division; Presentation of Chief Commissioners Badge; 1974Wedding; Ian Stimson, Yvonne Anderton 11. [P1-8032-10422]H2O Xtream; 'take the plunge' programme; Hayey Wano, 5Maidstone Park; 18 Celsius in May, after coldest April in 52 years; children and dog.Earthmoving machinery line-up; firm unidentified.Engagement; Trevor George Dry, Evelyn May Duncalf. [P1-3764-6154]Maidstone Park; Circa 1980sUpper Hutt College 1994; form 7BR (Brockhouse)Upper Hutt Bowling Club undated 012Māwai Hakona T, Blue MountainsHaywards intersection, State Highways 2 and 58; proposed two-level interchange, 2016.Methodist Waiata Māori Choir; 1929Maidstone Mall; HVEPGB cooking demonstrator June Phillips.Fire; Benge & Pratt's store, March 1914; aftermath of fire.Medwyn Popplewell with his brother Ray Popplewell; April 1957Jacqueline Ross; third, exercise category, Du Pont Lycra Student Design Awards.Maidstone Pool; ca. 1980Wedding; John Brabant, Winsome G. Kaye 9. [P1-5068-7458]Dunlop people; Bev Wiffen, née Jury; other name unknown.Controversial Hazelwoods billboardBoy Scouts Radiata Cub Pack; 1974Rotary; Upper Hutt presents defibrillator at Port Vila, Vanuatu.Dawson Wedding.Laurie golden wedding. [P1-5136-7526]Dunlop factory; the north wall, from the westTrentham Camp; 1941-45 BL 5.5-inch medium gun outside H.Q. building.Heretaunga Players; Love Locked OutEngagement; John Beattie, Susan Joy Carson 18.Royal Street, east side; No. 10 and 12-14Dunlop tyre assembly; radial-tyre area; transport equipment.
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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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Upper Hutt City Centre: a virtual Heritage Tour

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