NORTH SHORE HISTORY: WITH DAVID VERRAN
Archival material at the New Zealand Maritime Museum goes online By David Verran
Since 2020, the New Zealand Maritime The museum has both a near total run from Museum has made annual funding December 1945 to Autumn 2010 and an applications to the New Zealand Lottery associated collection of 2639 photographs from Commission for an intended five-year that magazine from the 1960s to the 1990s. digitisation programme. Digitisation started It also has a good run of copies of the ‘New in February 2021 and the museum is now Zealand Yachtsman’, from 23 April 1909 to 18 applying for a third year of funding. June 1918. The museum has a total of over three million I have also received inventories of the AHB items. Currently over nine thousand items have engineering files and correspondence yet to been both digitised and made available on the be digitised. As appropriate to Harbour Board museum website. Files for future digitisation files these concentrate on the Naval Base include Auckland Harbour Board (AHB) and especially the passenger ferry wharves at engineers' correspondence from 1907 to 1988, Devonport, but also have relevance to such AHB engineers' files from 1908 to 1972 and head topics as the Devonport Borough District office correspondence from 1871 to 1989. The Scheme (likely the maritime aspects), mooring museum is exploring a method to make PDFs areas for boats, dinghy lockers and even available. It is also in the process of digitising all the water supply for the Devonport Steam the AHB Minute Books and Indexes from 1871 to Ferry Company. There are similar files for the 1989, along with AHB photograph albums. The Birkenhead, Northcote and Chelsea wharves. earliest album is of sketches, with images dating Note that the Auckland Harbour Board managed between 1840 and the 1980s. The Auckland the port of Auckland and later Onehunga as Harbour Board operated from 1871 to 1989, and well, covering both the Auckland and Manukau when it was wound up its records went to the harbours. K168-171, Photograph Album 10, Auckland Maritime Museum. Other files include those on the Kauri Point Harbour Board archives [19136], courtesy of Reserve (1914 to 1953), the Kauri Point Naval I checked out the site for North Shorethe New Zealand Maritime Museum. This related material and found photographs taken Depot (1935 to 1974), the Chelsea housing estate features the Hobson Street, Birkenhead and Northcote vehicular ferry berths, and is (1965 to 1983), the proposed Meola Reef harbour in Northcote, Birkenhead, Chelsea, Takapuna, dated 13 September 1923. Bayswater, Narrow Neck and Devonport. bridge across the Waitemata Harbour (1972 Those from Northcote include black and white photographs from to 1977 and 1983) and the buoys and beacons in that part of the the early 1960s of the coal hulk ‘Eure’, while those from Takapuna harbour (1965 to 1975). include colour photographs of yachts taken in 1989. There are also Many of the photographic albums include images of the colour photographs of powerboats off Bayswater taken in 1979. Devonport wharves, but there are also those of the vehicular Amongst other photographs, I also located older photographs of wharves at Birkenhead and Northcote, particularly from the 1920s Bayswater Wharf and Narrow Neck Beach. (see above). Other photographs include those of ‘up river’ wharves Devonport is represented by a number of photographs, in the operated by the Auckland Harbour Board. They include Birkdale main featuring the Devonport Naval Base and the Devonport Yacht (later renamed Beach Haven), lower Albany and Herald Island, from Club, as well as three fully digitised files regarding the latter from the November 1921. old Auckland Harbour Board. There is also, for example, a partially Altogether a wonderful collection of photographs and other digitised file regarding the cargo wharf at Devonport for the period material much more readily available, with the promise of much more 1925 to 1983. to come! Go to - https://collection.maritimemuseum.co.nz/explore Some will remember ‘Sea Spray Magazine’, briefly called ‘Boating World’ from 1992 to 1996, and also known as ‘SeaSpray’. david.verran@xtra.co.nz
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