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The Consett Iron Co Ltd bought the quarry in 1900 as it needed a secure supply of limestone for its expanding steel works Limestone was used as a flux in the furnaces and helped remove impurities as slag In its heyday at the start of the First World War the quarry...

Auckland street directories record Erni Bond living at 51-53 Remuera Road now 171-173 Remuera Road in 1911 and 1915 Enoch Bond at 53 Remuera Road in 1927 Elon Bond Jnr at 49b Remuera Road in 1929 and Enoch Bond at 53 Remuera Road in 1932-1936 55 Remuera Road in 1939-1946 Elon Bond at 173 Remuera Road from 1956 to 1960...

est 1918 built these wharves for shipping the stone off to market Local quarry operations continued until the 1960s by which time the stone was being trucked out rather than shipped by scow to Auckland In the early 1990s the Moehau quarry was reopened to provide stone for the refurbishment of Parliament Buildings in Wellington...

Find all the Auckland maps at the back of this guide and get to know our beautiful region Eden Garden is an oasis in the middle of central Auckland a beautiful quiet garden in an old quarry...

After attending Auckland Grammar School Vickerman studied at Auckland University College 1899-1901 and Victoria College in Wellington He gained a BSc in 1903 Auckland First Class honours in Natural Sciences Geology and a MSc in 1911 from Victoria 2 In 1900 while still at university in Auckland he joined the Public Works Department...

Mount Eden is a suburb in Auckland New Zealand whose name honours George Eden 1st Earl of AucklandIt is 4 kilometres 25 mi south of the Central Business District CBD Mt Eden Road winds its way around the side of Mount Eden Domain and continues to weave back and forth as it descends into the valley it runs south from Eden Terrace to Three Kings...

1900-1950 AN UNSEEN HERITAGE A thesis submitted in fulfilment Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki gift of the relatives of Mr TV Gulliver 1939 4 65 Herbert Tornquist Sunday at the Quarry wood-engraving c1939 Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki purchased 1939 66 Christopher Perkins...

Church or Chapel Start of Marriages Registers at Code Years indexed Amblecote Holy Trinity 1846 Dudley 015 1846-2002 Blackheath St Paul 1869 Dudley 012...

Mount Albert is an inner suburb of Auckland New Zealand which is centred on Mount Albert a local volcanic peak which dominates the landscapeIn the past Mt Albert also referred to the 2 500 acre borough that was created in 1911 on the outskirts of Auckland CityMt Albert was also one of the original five wards within the Mt Albert Borough...

1900s 21 2000s 17 Filter by Collection findNZarticles 47 Filter by Creator Gibson Anne 5 Cawley Rose 2 Johnston Martin 2 Pratt Ciara 2 The quarries of Auckland largely Mount Wellington Includes illustration and portrait of Richard Compton From Auckland Librari 60 000 new look for quarry in Lunn Ave...

They were poorly represented in Auckland During the great period of migration from 1853 to 1880 the English proportions declined Even Canterbury a New Zealand Company settlement and a notoriously English place did not assist immigrants from England at the level of their representation in the United Kingdom as a whole Among the miners the...

Carte du globe terrestre où les terres de l hemisphere merl sont supposées être vues à travers celles de l hemisphere septentl 1 Karte Kupferdruck Durchmesser 23 cm Blattgrösse 46 x 61 cm Buache Delahaye chés l auteur sur le quay de l Horloge...

Norman Wade 1879-1954 was born in Auckland the son of architect Henry Greensmith Wade b1835-d1900 He received his architectural training in his father s office and was for some years in partnership with his elder brother Henry Logan Wade also an architect...

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On 5 October 17-year-old Elsie Walker was found dead with a head injury in a disused quarry in east Auckland The cause of death was not confirmed but locals suspected her cousin William Bayly who was to be convicted of murdering the Lakey couple in 1933 Read more 1966 Encyclopaedia of NZ 1929 The Hīmatangi tragedy...

The Winter Gardens in the Auckland Domain are completed consisting of cool and tropical conservatories formal gardens and arbours The next year the adjacent scoria quarry is converted into a fern dell 1929 Arthur s Pass National Park is the first national park to be created in the South Island...

Although still co-educational the School s name was changed back to Auckland Grammar School By this time it was the largest and most important school in New Zealand 1909 The long-awaited Auckland Grammar School was opened on the old Howe Street site and Auckland Grammar School reverted to being an all-boys school 1911-1913...

Auckland Star 15 November 1924 Page 25 Mrs quarries factories and railroad construction Russian advanced in 1945 and 3000 POWs were marched 400mil Many died from starvation thirst and exhaustion In 1900 he moved to Melbourne for eight months to study with sculptor Charles Richardson and retuned to Timaru in 1901 for four years...

Roofers in Auckland Roofing in Auckland Roofing Tiles in Auckland Contractors in Auckland The First type of Artificial slate roof tile is the Asbestos slate They have been brought into this country since the early 1900 s original used on churches it came in a diamond shape pattern there are still churches and the odd house still with this...

Richard Morris abt 1816 Monmouthshire Wales United Kingdom - bef Jun 1900 managed by Tessa Martin-Bashore Ambrose Hansard Morris 20 Jun 1853 Lynchburg ia United States - 23 Apr 1927 Florence Margaret Morris Shaw 1887 New Zealand - 1954...

Nov 27 2020 0183 32 The following year George joined Wilkins and Davies Construction where he remained until 1987 managing its quarries division for 17 of those years He worked in Wellington Turangi Taumaranui Westport Murchison and Auckland for the company including recommending the purchase of the Puketutu Quarry near Auckland Airport...

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Manukau Quarries LP Open Monday-Friday 7am -5pm Open for tipping Saturdays 7am -Midday Last loads 30 minutes prior to closing 885 Whitford-Maraetai Road Beachlands Auckland beside the roundabout 09 2630220 0279 373737 09 2630220 0279 373737...

Death and burial records include tombstone inscriptions burial permits death indexes and death certificat They can provide vital information for your search and while not recorded for every citizen are worth the time to explore them The more recent the death record the more information you will find...

NORTHUMBERLAND NORTHERN DIVISION OF DURHAM AND CUMBERLAND 1 Acomb C Hexham Messrs Morrison 2 Ashington Morpeth Ashington Coal Co 3 Axwell Gateshead R S...

The Cobden quarries Greymouth on how it can be used Add to a story DigitalNZ brings together more than 30 million items from institutions such as Auckland Libraries so that they are easy to find and use We added this one from this URL Opens in new window on 22 April It was created by Auckland Weekly News on or around the date 1900...

securing stone for railway ballasting in taranaki one of the quarries of the slopes of mount egmont from which supplies are to be drawn This item comes from Auckland Libraries and is part of their collection Auckland Libraries Heritage Images Collection...

Apr 3 2012 - View of quarry from Mt Wellington 1964 University of Auckland...

Relatively little recent work published but there is the Durham Mining Museum Website which also covers Cumberland Westmorland Northumberland and North Yorkshire 1 Emery covered the technical development of collieries coke making and pit villag 2 Recent surveys include Temple 1994 and later volumes Guy and Atkinson 2008 41-75 includes a good overview of the coal industry in West...

General Summary of Manufactories Works c excluding Mines and Quarries in Operation in the several Provincial Districts of New Zealand in March 1901 with the Number of Hands engaged the Amount of Wages paid the Nature and Amount of Power employed and the Value of Manufactures for the Year 1900 also the Approximate Value of the Land...