Lindsay Family Collection

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

Harbour Board grading shed.

Creator:      Charles E Wildbore
Place:          Wellington
Date:          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

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

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

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

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

The milking was done by hand in this cow shed located in the Pohangina Valley. Note the leg-ropes on the cows and the men sitting on box-stools. The shed contains about 15 bays.

Creator:      Charles E Wildbore
Place:          Palmerston North
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. Shown here is the multiple cable suspension bridge during the construction of t...

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. It is taken from above the power scheme working appears to show the Mangaore v...

Creator:      Charles E Wildbore
Place:          Horowhenua Region
Date:          circa 1922

This photograph is one of a series taken between 1922 - 1924 by Charles Wildbore which records the construction of the Mangahao hydro-electric power scheme in the Tararua ranges, east of Shannon. This view shows part of the Mangaore village, whic...

Creator:      Charles E Wildbore
Place:          Horowhenua Region
Date:          circa 1922

"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 view looks down on the construction of the power house looking west from the top of the hill where the pipeline was subsequently laid. The Mangahao Power Station provides hydroelectric power and is situated near the town of Shannon. It serves...

Creator:      Charles E Wildbore
Place:          Managhao Road, Shannon
Date:          circa 1922 to circa 1923

Standing, L-R: Harry, Celia, Jane

Seated, L-R: Jane, Tom

Creator:      Charles E. Wildbore
Place:          Pohangina
Date:          circa 1905