The Lindsay Family Collection consists of images taken by Charles Wildbore in the Manawatū and Horowhenua regions. Included are images depicting the construction of the Mangahao Electric Power Scheme, the flax fibre industry, and life in the Pohangina Valley during the early 20th Century.
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One of a series taken by Charles Wildbore between 1922 - 1924, recording the construction of the Mangahao electric power scheme. Mangaore village was the headquarters of the project, with the large white building in the right-hand, middle distance...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1922
This photograph is one of a series made by Charles Wildbore showing the construction of the Mangahao hydro-electric power scheme in the Tararua ranges east of Shannon. This view shows the construction of the lower Dam.
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1923
Mr Charles E Wildbore was a well-known resident of the Pohangina Valley frm about 1900 to 1920. He owned a small dairy farm and apiary at Pohangina Township, but he is principally remembered for his photographic activities, being an enthusiastic a...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Pohangina Valley
Date: circa 1910
L-R: Reg Wildbore, Beverly Wildbore, Jack Sandbrook, Roy Williams, Ivan Lepper, Ruby Sandbrook, Norma Sandbrook, Evan Wildbore, Sylvia, Jean Sandbrook, Albert Whittaker, Jane Wildbore, Cecil Wildbore.
Creator: Charles E. Wildbore
Place: Pohangina
Date: 1931
Portrait of Jane and Norman Wildbore.
Creator: Charles E. Wildbore
Place: Pohangina
Date: circa 1911
These saleyards are believed to have been situated at Pohangina Township on William Homes' farm. The historian of Manawatu saleyards Mr John McCaw gives the following history of the yards “A few years later (1895) Abraham and Williams advertised t...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1900 to 1910
This photograph shows the handiwork of students under Mr Stephenson. Some of the items pictured are ladders, a cabinet and sets of shelves. The photographer, Charles Wildbore, was a well known local, amateur photographer during the early years of ...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Pohangina, Manawatu
Date: 1910
The exact location of this landscape is unknown, but it is almost certainly somewhere in the upper Pohangina Valley, north of Ashhurst. The trees on the hillside have been felled by and the area is ready to be burnt off.
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Pohangina, Manawatū
Date: circa 1900 to circa 1910
Unidentified children playing in a river (possibly the Pohangina River).
Creator: Charles E. Wildbore
Place: Pohangina
Date: unknown
This photograph is one of a series made by Charles Wildbore showing the construction of the Mangahao hydro-electric power scheme in the Tararua ranges east of Shannon. This view shows the bypass tunnel above the lower dam. The light suspension br...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1923
"Totara Reserve" is the popular name of the 740 acre public reserve situated on the east bank of the Pohangina River and officially known as Pohangina Valley Domain. Since 1947, this reserve has been owned by the Palmerston North City Council. Thi...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Pohangina Valley
Date: 1915 to 1920
Harbour Board grading shed.
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Wellington
Date: circa 1910
Men’s huts (R) and the cookhouse (L) at the Mangahao Hydro Electric Power Scheme. _ _
Creator: Charles E. Wildbore
Place: Mangahao
Date: 1922
This photograph shows a Hemp Grader examining a hank of fibre pulled out of a bale of flax fibre. A grade was assigned to each bale and this enabled overseas buyer to purchase fibre of a uniform quality. The photograph is thought to have been ta...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Wellington
Date: circa 1910
"Totara Reserve" is the popular name for the Pohangina Valley Domain situated on the east bank of the Pohangina River.
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1915 to 1920
Charles Wildbore (1862 - 1937) depicting himself as a tinker – a travelling metal-worker - and his children, taken at Pohangina where the family lived. Charles and his wife, Jane, had 13 children. He was a beekeeper, honey producer, dairy farmer a...
Creator: Charles E. Wildbore
Place: Pohangina
This photograph is one of a series made by Charles Wildbore showing the construction of the Mangahao hydro-electric power scheme in the Tararua ranges east of Shannon. This view is thought to be of the Arapete camp
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1923
This photograph is one of a series made by Charles Wildbore showing the construction of the Mangahao hydro-electric power scheme in the Tararua ranges east of Shannon. This view shows the construction camp on the Mangahao River upstream from the ...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1923
This view shows the site of power house and the route of the pipe line. The power house was constructed at the foot of the ridge in the centre of the photograph (to the right of the wooden building on stilts). The route along which the pipe line w...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: 1922
“Totara Reserve” is the popular name for the 740 acre public reserve officially known as the Pohangina Valley Domain, situated on the east bank of the Pohangina River. Since 1947 this reserve has been owned by the Palmerston North City Council. ...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1915
Charlie or Stan Wildbore reaping hay, using a sickle.
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1910
This photograph is one of a series made by Charles Wildbore showing the construction of the Mangahao hydro-electric power scheme in the Tararua ranges east of Shannon. This view shows the site for the power house. the cutting for the pipeline can...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1922
Back row (L-R): Percy, Stan, Charlie, Owen, Mana
Front row (L-R): Cecil, Baden, Reg
Creator: Charles E. Wildbore
Place: Pohangina
Date: 1915
L-R: Sylvia, Kathleen, Ruby and Eva.
Creator: Charles E. Wildbore
Place: Pohangina
Date: 1915
This photograph is part of a collection relating to the Mangahao Electric Power Scheme and its construction. The Scheme provides hydroelectric power, and is situated near the town of Shannon. It serves Wellington, Horowhenua, Taranaki, Hawkes Bay,...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: 1922
Eva Williams (Wildbore) with her children (L-R), Noel, Patricia, and Mervyn.
Creator: Charles E. Wildbore
Place: Pohangina
Date: circa 1930
Portrait of Mervyn Williams, son of Eva Williams (Wildbore).
Creator: Charles E. Wildbore
Place: Pohangina
Date: circa 1930
This photograph was taken from the second terrace above the river looking in an south-westerly direction. It is said that Wildbore, the photographer, wished to photograph a bush fire and was notified by Mr Roberts of Mount Richards of a burn takin...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1904
This photograph is one of a series made by Charles Wildbore showing the construction of the Mangahao hydro-electric power scheme in the Tararua ranges east of Shannon. This view shows the construction camp at the lower dam - original No.1 dam . ...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1923
This photograph is one of a series made by Charles Wildbore showing the construction of the Mangahao hydro-electric power scheme in the Tararua ranges east of Shannon. This view is thought to be of the Arapete camp. This area was later flooded and...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Tokomaru No3 Reservoir, Shannon
Date: circa 1923