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Upper Hutt Heritage Sharing highlights of the Mahara Upper Hutt Community Archive. Do browse our collections on our website https://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.

A panorama on Main Street of Trinity House and Gethings Motors taken by the Upper Hutt City Council, undated.For a close...
08/09/2026

A panorama on Main Street of Trinity House and Gethings Motors taken by the Upper Hutt City Council, undated.

For a closer look, follow the link to our community archive
https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/28172

Here we have page 5 of the September 3, 1964, edition of the Leader, with a special Father's Day advertisement from Haze...
07/09/2026

Here we have page 5 of the September 3, 1964, edition of the Leader, with a special Father's Day advertisement from Hazelwoods department store.

Did you know that Upper Hutt Libraries has part of the Leader newspaper available digitally? The digital collection covers the early years of the paper, from 1939–1964, which are all searchable through the Upper Hutt Newspaper Archive: https://newspaperarchives.uhcc.govt.nz/.

Find the newspaper archive through the Mahara Upper Hutt Community Archive homepage (under the "more" button), or in the Local History Resources section of the Upper Hutt Libraries website.

Hazelwoods fashion parade; Paula Postlethwaite (staff member).Model in summer dress on catwalk.This is one of a set of p...
04/09/2026

Hazelwoods fashion parade; Paula Postlethwaite (staff member).

Model in summer dress on catwalk.

This is one of a set of photographs of each of the six models (Frances Probert, Paula Postlethwaite, Shirley Farrelly, Billie White, Denise Backley and Sue Barton) printed in the 'Leader' on August 26, 1970.

For a closer look, please follow the link: https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/877

Engines on Silverstream railway overbridge in 1960. The caption reads:"Long disused fell engines at the Silverstream sid...
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

Governor General Sir Bernard Fergusson. Studio portrait. His Excellency the Governor General Brigadier Sir Bernard Fergu...
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

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

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