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AddBy: Rachel Sonius10th Oct 2016 11:33AMThe following comment about this image was posted on the Upper Hutt Heritage Facebook page by Stiggy Tayla on 27.9.2016:
"It's offices now but there might be part of an old movie theatre in the ceiling still. Think that's the building."
"It's offices now but there might be part of an old movie theatre in the ceiling still. Think that's the building."
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Trentham Camp building; former memorial chapel and clock tower
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DescriptionPhotograph of what has become known as the Clock Tower Building at Trentham Camp. Besides it is a mounted 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun next to the flagpole. This photograph has been reproduced from the book "Upper Hutt: The History" (Kelleher, 1991, 193) in which it is identified as "the old Officers' Mess" and the sign outside the building reads "Trentham Camp Officers' Mess". However, information provided by former Commandant and Trentham Camp historian Howard Weddell identifies this building, which dates back to the First World War, as having originally been the Church of England Institute rooms.
The July 28, 1981 'Leader' printed a picture of the clock being reinstalled after a $2800 revamp. It had been out of action for five years, and replacements for two missing faces (there had been three) had been made by the Ministry of Works and Development.
The clock, patterned after one at Bisley (a famous rifle-shooting range in England), was added to the 5100-square-foot (474 square metres) building in 1916.
A March 18, 1982 article and pictures said it had been a chapel; an old choir or organ loft and stained-glass windows had been found. Apost-war map marked it as a tent-repair building.
After the re-build, the ceiling had been lowered to conserve heat, and partitions separated the 120-seat auditorium usable as a concert-hall-cinema, an on-stage chapel which could be closed for private devotions with movable solid-mahogany pulpit and altar, and offices.
The amenity, named the Trentham Memorial Chapel in memory of the tens of thousands who had passed through the camp, would be opened on March 25.
On December 1, 1964, th Royal Engineers fired an artillery blank on the dmorning of their patron saint, Eligius; the wad did not fly true, and put a 15 cm hole in the clock tower.
In mid-1990 the former St Francis Catholic church was brought from Onga Onga as the camp’s new chapel.
The July 28, 1981 'Leader' printed a picture of the clock being reinstalled after a $2800 revamp. It had been out of action for five years, and replacements for two missing faces (there had been three) had been made by the Ministry of Works and Development.
The clock, patterned after one at Bisley (a famous rifle-shooting range in England), was added to the 5100-square-foot (474 square metres) building in 1916.
A March 18, 1982 article and pictures said it had been a chapel; an old choir or organ loft and stained-glass windows had been found. Apost-war map marked it as a tent-repair building.
After the re-build, the ceiling had been lowered to conserve heat, and partitions separated the 120-seat auditorium usable as a concert-hall-cinema, an on-stage chapel which could be closed for private devotions with movable solid-mahogany pulpit and altar, and offices.
The amenity, named the Trentham Memorial Chapel in memory of the tens of thousands who had passed through the camp, would be opened on March 25.
On December 1, 1964, th Royal Engineers fired an artillery blank on the dmorning of their patron saint, Eligius; the wad did not fly true, and put a 15 cm hole in the clock tower.
In mid-1990 the former St Francis Catholic church was brought from Onga Onga as the camp’s new chapel.
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OrganisationNew Zealand Army (Defence Department)PlaceTrentham Camp, Upper HuttSubjectArmyWooden buildingsMilitary
PlaceTrentham Camp, Upper HuttSubjectArmyWooden buildingsMilitary Part of
CollectionMurray Maxwell Collection (Copied from the book 'UPPER HUTT - The History)
Scanned byIan Jolly 21/05/2014
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