Highlights from the Samuel Anstey collection of glass plate negatives. Anstey was an early Antigua Boat Sheds owner who took many photos creating a remarkable record of the early 1900's.
Group of female roller skaters from the show "Roll-O-Capers" skating in costume at Canterbury Court. From left, Fergie Jamieson, Angela Butters, Sharon Houghton, Noeline Campbell, Sue Duder, Gay...
Alice Grundy & family at Cave Rock, Sumner.
Left - right: Mary Morse (my aunty, mum's youngest sister) an unknown friend Sydney??, Mary's best friend all at Addington races. Maybe cup day as they are all in their best clothes. Late 1930s...
"Ascot Millinery girls in 1951. From left - Margaret Scott who worked in the office. Joyce Meal, Lois Parkinson and her sister, Val. Muriel Watts, Leila Helman, Miss Farr and Mrs Woolf (owner)." -...
Head teacher of Beckenham School, Nick Major with students, all wearing handmade hats. Students are, from left, Alice van der Heyden, Ben Anderson, Thomas McCarthy, Hayley Nicholson and Laura Fisher.
A group of students from Cobham Intermediate School wearing colourful floral hats as part of a floral hat competition. In the centre is Karina Perry who came 2nd in the competition with her hat that...
Bruce, Andrew, Anne and Margaret decorated their bikes for a parade, probably at Somerfield School.
My father standing between two friends, outside the Sign of the Kiwi which opened in 1917. They are wearing their suits, white shirts and ties and carrying their ropes.
Grandmother and two aunts. On back of photo: Left unnamed sister; centre: Dora Macaulay, nee Hahn, right:Bena Wilson, nee Hahn.
This style of hat was made in Great Britain during World War I. English-made felt hats with vent holes and a fabric edged brim were used during World War I by all ranks. The attachments for the left...
My grandfather and great-grandfather worked for W. W. Keighley and Co. Timber Merchants which was located at 48 Fitzgerald Ave. Pictured is the work crew 1948.
Students from Mt Pleasant School with floral hats for a hat competition in Cathedral Square, for the Festival of Flowers. Students, from left, Hamish Wheeler, John Thrup, Angela Harris and Carolyne...
Four men and three women of Fullers' Theatre Company in two rowboats on the Avon River in Hagley Park. Three of the men have exchanged hats with the three women.
Four men including Mr Lacy and W. Weston (reclining on the ground) in Hagley Park.
W. Weston standing with a walking cane in Hagley Park.
Four men including Mr Lacy and W. Weston (reclining on the ground) of Weston Lasy & Company in Hagley Park. The men have matching suits. The three standing all have matching bowler hats while the...
Group of eighteen men and women outdoors in Hagley Park. One man lies in front of the others.
Maidie Gimblett at Heathcote Hall in fancy dress with wheelbarrow of her own work. Wheelbarrow parade and sale-of-work fundraising for the Methodist Church.
Madeline (Maidie) Gimblett standing outdoors in fancy dress carrying a basket.
Rose and Tom Gibson at their son's wedding, Linton Gibson who married Nellie Marsden on this day, 24 July 1935 at Methodist Church, Durham Street, Christchurch.