Eltham Vintage Postcards
A DigitalNZ Story by Dawn Chambers
Views of Eltham were published by Henry George Carman, local bookseller & stationer; David James Aldersley of Lower Hutt; Muir & Moodie of Dunedin and Frederick George Radcliffe of Whangarei.
Nigel Douglas Connell (1878-1951), an Eltham based photographer, may have been the first to provide images for publication. An early view of the town taken by Connell from the Mount View Hospital hill was published by Henry George Carman in black and white and colour. Some of the cards were printed in Germany. The photograph shows Meuli Street at an earlier date than the Muir & Moodie photograph by virtue of a lack of vegetation next to the fence in front of the closest house in the centre of the picture (MM-131).
MM-131 Meuli Street Eltham in the foreground
Posted Hawera Feb 1906 to G. M. Garratt, 24 East St, Auckland (? Gertrude Margaret m 1909 John William G. Saunders)
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
MM-5304 Meuli Street Eltham bottom left
Addressed 18 Mar 1918 to Pte B. C. Clifford (44348) 24th Reinforcements, GPO, Wellington from Daisy
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
MM-3988PC
Alexander Turnbull Library
MM-3993PC
Shows store, with flags, of Charles Anderson Wilkinson. Message dated 03 Mar 1911
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
MM-3994PC
Posted 04 Jan 1910 to Miss Doris Sykes, Cochrane Street, Thames
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
There are six known photographs taken by Frederick George Radcliffe: Views from Mount View Hospital hill (FGR-4180 and 4181); Salvation Army Boy's Home (FGR-4182); Bridge Street looking east towards Coronation Hotel (FGR-4184); Bridge Street looking west towards Coronation Hotel (FGR-4185); Bridge Street looking west from near Coronation Hotel (FGR-4191). Based on car licence plate numbers visible in FGR-4191 they may all have been taken 1912-1914.
FGR-4184
Businesses: Walter Clarry, Butcher; Ira James Bridger, Cycle Dealer; George Henry Buckeridge, Commission Agent
Alexander Turnbull Library
David Aldersley of Lower Hutt took a photograph of Bridge Street showing the chemist in the left foreground and the Coronation Hotel on the right (A1354)