More Info →Railway Platform, Frankton Junction Station, looking north.

Description

This photograph shows the east side of Frankton Junction Station, looking north. The North Signal Box, which was constructed in 1910, can be seen at the end of the platform.

This photograph was created by William James Young. A large variety of subjects are depicted in the collection, but family, rural life and travel are the most prominent themes. The exact location of many photographs in the Young Collection is unknown, but W J Young lived on a farm in Mt Stewart, Rangitikei, and some of the photographs include his house. The Young family were apparently avid travellers and photographs later in the collection feature scenes from Rotorua, Auckland, Whanganui, as well as other unidentified locations. The portraits are all unidentified, but are presumably of members of the Young family. The photographers parents were George Henry (b 1833) and Jane McDowell (b 1842, d 1916). They came to New Zealand in 1877. The same year, they bought the home farm on Mt Stewart and called it Kilrudden after Kilrudden House, the home of the McDowell family in Ireland. The couple had four children: Ann (b 1873), Margaret (b 1876), John (b 1878) and William James (b 1880). William James married Mary Elizabeth Thompson and they had four children: Doris (b 1914, d 1989), George (b 1916, d 1991), Royden McDowell (b 1925, d 1992) and Noel William (b 1927, d 2013).

Identification

Object type

Image

Identifier

2014/28 - Young Collection

Relation

2014/28

Date

circa 1910

Digitisation ID

2015G_Young340_010404

Format

Glass negative