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Sharing highlights of the Mahara Upper Hutt Community Archive. Do browse our collections on our website https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz.

We invite you to comment and share our posts and welcome questions about our local heritage! Sharing digital highlights of Upper Hutt's heritage. Information provided about images posted here may be used to supplement records in the Upper Hutt City Library Heritage Collections and will be publicly visible on the website http://uhcl.recollect.co.nz

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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.

02/09/2026

Janette Hodson, Miss Hazelwoods 1971 on a garden lounger

For a closer look, please follow the link: https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/788

01/09/2026

Engines on Silverstream railway overbridge in 1960. The caption reads:

"Long disused fell engines at the Silverstream sidings. Dad & I were staying in Pinehaven at the time - we walked down to have a look - I couldn't play on them as the locos were covered in oil and grime. These engines used to haul trains over the Rimutaka Hill before the advent of the new tunnel in 1955."

To get a closer look at this photo from the Dennis Morgan Collection, follow the link to our community archive https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/30346

31/08/2026

A snapshot of Princes Street, Upper Hutt, in July 1977.

For a closer look, follow the link to our community archive https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/31157

28/08/2026

Blue Ts group portrait.

Photographer: Ronald D. Woolf, Spencer Digby Studio

No Date Given

For a closer look, please follow the link: https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/446

27/08/2026

Mayor & Mrs. Kinsman playing on drums

Date Taken: 1961

Photographer: Revelle Jackson

For a closer look, please follow the link: https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/222

26/08/2026

Governor General Sir Bernard Fergusson. Studio portrait. His Excellency the Governor General Brigadier Sir Bernard Fergusson, GCMG GCVO DSO OBE

Photographer: Earle Andrew

No Date

For a closer look, please follow the link: https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/203

25/08/2026

Custom Engineering Services on 2 Miro Street, May 1990.

The firm had been started by Ian Hammond and John Picard, and provided "everything from specialised vehicle alterations through to speed and performance equipment." They were also members of the Moonshine Rod and Custom Club, and the Alexander Road drag races committee.

For a closer look, follow the link to our community archive
https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/25631

24/08/2026

A very Happy Anniversary to Rutherford & Bond and King Toyota! This month marks 50 years of Toyota in Upper Hutt.

This photograph is from back in 1991, when the dealership was known as Woodings Toyota. It was featured in the July 16, 1991, edition of the Leader, advertising the new signage that had been rolled out as part of an international re-brand.

If you'd like to learn more about the history of the branch, follow the link to the collection on our community archive https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/25828

21/08/2026

Upper Hutt band the Bitter End perform at a Sunday afternoon dance organised by the Upper Hutt Youth Club at the Rugby Gym in February 1966.

Cropped from P1-2310-4700.

Photographer: Revelle Jackson

For a closer look, please follow the link: https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/217

20/08/2026

Children's Book Week, August 16-22 at Upper Hutt City Library.
(see also P2-56-151.)

Taken when the library was located at 6 Main Street.

Date Taken: 1961

For a closer look, please follow the link https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/1113

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