Featured Archives
These featured archives highlight interesting, unusual or just plain typical examples of the holdings of Hutt City Council Archives.
In July 2004 Mr Eric Ireland donated to Hutt City Council Archives an important set of records connected with the construction of the Melling Bridge.
Many of you may remember the old VIC store or still call the corner of Kings Crescent and the High Street VIC corner
As well as the Council’s own records, the Archives holds the records of a number of schools in the area.
Summer may be over but we can keep ourselves warm remembering happy summer day trips of the past.
The tunnel that this item relates to was never used as an access road!
The Archives holds a large amount of information from early discussions to contracts for the work itself.
Subdivision Advertisements offer a fascinating insight into street lay-outs which may not have gone ahead or may have been altered over time, original street names which have since been changed, the location of old homesteads, churches and stores.
The social history of Stokes Valley - imagine the young man loitering on the corner with his cigarette envying the cars!
We hold no less than 596 of these field books created by the City Valuation Department.
Hutt County Council was one of the predecessor authorities to the present Hutt City Council along with Lower Hutt City Council, Petone Borough Council, Eastbourne Borough Council, and Wainuiomata District Council.
Streetscapes and shop facades change rapidly (witness the recent developments round Queensgate) so it is all the more valuable to have a snapshot in time.
As many of you will know or even have witnessed there was a terrible fire in the old Petone Municipal Buildings on 3rd January 1985.
We hold a large number of aerial photographs of the Hutt City area dating from 1951 to 1977 and they all have location key indexes so are very accessible.
It was the rule then that once a town had a population of 20,000 it could petition for city status and Lower Hutt didn’t hesitate.