Photo: get down (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Banco.
174 Whitaker Street in the 1950s,
Art by Adrian Worsley. Image courtesy of the artist.
Art by Adrian Worsley. Image courtesy of the artist.
Art by Adrian Worsley. Image courtesy of the artist.
Art by Adrian Worsley. Image courtesy of the artist.
Art by Adrian Worsley. Image courtesy of the artist.
Art by Adrian Worsley. Image courtesy of the artist.
'Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, NZ Map 3619'.
Te Aroha, Dunedin, by Burton Brothers studio, maker unknown. Te Papa (O.034350)
1895. Te Aroha, Main Street. Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia. Ref: 1/4-034388-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
[191-?] Gazebo around mineral water fountain in the Domain, Te Aroha. Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives. Ref: 1/2-006352-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
[circa 1880s-1930s] Thermal spring, Te Aroha, Waikato District. Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983 :Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera. Ref: 1/4-055119-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
circa 1910s-1930s. Lydia Williams in front of the Devonshire House Private Boarding Residence, next to M & A Collins building, and The Royal Bakery, T E [Green?], Te Aroha, Waikato District. Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983 :Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera. Ref: 1/4-055146-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
Showing Whitaker Street, Te Aroha with the premises of Wilson, Te Aroha Store (extreme left); C A Laidlaw Butchers; British Hotel, P Quinlan; Billiard Saloon; J Clarke, Grocers; H Buttle, broker; with horse outside Laidlaw's; seats outside the hotel and children outside Clarke's. 'Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 4-7231'.
1914. Whitaker Street, Te Aroha. Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives. Ref: 1/2-006493-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
1914. Whitaker Street, Te Aroha. Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives. Ref: 1/2-006493-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
Te Aroha Baptist Church. Photo: APNZ APNZ
Te Aroha Central Telegraph. Building 1912. Photo: itravelNZ (CC BY 2.0)
1910. The Goldminers Lodge, Te Aroha. Photo: Sarah Macmillan (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
102B Whitaker Street, Te Aroha Hot Springs Domain, Te Aroha. Photo: Eigenes Werk (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Te Aroha R.S.A (CC BY 2.0)
A virtual trip to the small and perfectly formed Waikato town where the New Zealand Tourism Department was born when Edwardians started arriving "to take the waters'' in 1886.
With Adrian the artist; Arleen the rugby coach; Vicki, Treasurer of the Country Music Committee; and Gloria, who's had a cafe in the old Bank Building on the main street, Whittaker St, for nearly 20 years.
