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ning useful information about items in the Upper Hutt City Library’s Heritage Collections may be re-posted on Recollect, our online database. This is to ensure that information is preserved for future use. Please let us know if you do not want any comment of yours to be used in this way.

Brown Owl School children taking buses to Oxford Crescent School in 1978, after their classrooms were destroyed by a fir...
09/06/2026

Brown Owl School children taking buses to Oxford Crescent School in 1978, after their classrooms were destroyed by a fire.

For a closer look, follow the link to our community archive
https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/2924

Allan Hunter (foundation principal) opening the building named after him at Upper Hutt College on 13 November 1990. For ...
08/06/2026

Allan Hunter (foundation principal) opening the building named after him at Upper Hutt College on 13 November 1990.

For a closer look, follow the link to our community archive
https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/23547

This photograph is part of an album that documents the daily operations of the hospital in its final years.It shows a st...
04/06/2026

This photograph is part of an album that documents the daily operations of the hospital in its final years.

It shows a staff member in the process of washing dishes.

The following caption is printed below the photo in the album:

“Talofa – Manuia faafetai – Hello – All’s well.”

Date Taken: December 22, 1988
Photographer: Lynne Cheshire

For a closer look, please follow the link: https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/36138

This photograph is part of an album compiled by Sydney Josland.It shows staff members standing in the entrance to the Co...
03/06/2026

This photograph is part of an album compiled by Sydney Josland.

It shows staff members standing in the entrance to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Animal Nutrition Laboratory building on the Adelaide University campus in Australia. Josland undertook his post-graduate training at the Animal Nutrition Laboratory.

Date Taken: June 1935

For more details, please follow the link: https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/36429

Wedding onlookers at St Joseph's Catholic Church ca. 1974. You can see Astral Towers under construction in the backgroun...
02/06/2026

Wedding onlookers at St Joseph's Catholic Church ca. 1974. You can see Astral Towers under construction in the background.

There is a bit of uncertainty concerning the name of the groom in our records. He has been noted as either Harry van de Riet, or Harry Vandereek. Is anyone familiar with this family, and can confirm?

📷 Revelle Jackson

For a closer look, follow the link to our community archive
https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/10095

Prince Charles and Princess Diana being greeted outside the Civic Centre while visiting Upper Hutt during their 1983 Roy...
01/06/2026

Prince Charles and Princess Diana being greeted outside the Civic Centre while visiting Upper Hutt during their 1983 Royal Tour of New Zealand.

For a closer look, follow the link to our community archive
https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/35278

This photograph is part of a collection compiled by Peter's father, Sydney Josland.It shows Peter Josland in his Upper H...
28/05/2026

This photograph is part of a collection compiled by Peter's father, Sydney Josland.

It shows Peter Josland in his Upper Hutt Pipe Band uniform.

Peter was one of the founding pipers of the Upper Hutt Pipe Band, joining the band in 1945 as a 16 year old learner, not long after it was established at a meeting on 15 August 1944.

Date Taken: late 1940s

For a closer look, please follow the link: https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/36491

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