Onslow Historical Society Inc.
Established 1968
Archives
Most of the Society’s archives have been transferred to Wellington City Archives. We encourage research using our published work in the first instance, our library, the Index editions of The Onslow Historian and the black and white photographs stored in the main room at KATE.
Our Digital Resources
We have partnered with Wellington City Library who have digitised and made available some of our resources to the public on Wellington Recollect.
Wellington Recollect has digitised our collection of advertising bills and subdivision plans for several Wellington suburbs from the 1890s to WW1. The link below will take you directly to the plans.
The Ngaio and Khandallah Review (later called Social Review) offers a fascinating insight into Wellington society in the early-mid 1930s. We hold original copies. The link below will take you to Wellington Recollect.
This oral history project was a collaboration between the Onslow Historical Society (OHS) and the Cummings Park (Ngaio) branch library of the Wellington City Libraries network. Eight oral histories were conducted with members of the local community who had either grown up in the Onslow area or had moved to it after marriage.
The link below will take you to Wellington Recollect.
By George Videos
George Walter, a committee member has used OHS resources to make a series of YouTube videos about aspects of the history of Wellington. Links are below
A short but interesting look at the History of Johnsonville. Many old photos with old and new photos over lapping. Some photos you may never have seen before.
This walk is from the Halfway House in Middleton Road over the Stebbings Valley Dam to Rochdale Drive. You will see some of the lost history of Glenside.
Go with George for a walk down Old Coach Road Johnsonville. On the way he stops to look at the historical parts of this road and enjoy the views over Ohariu valley.
For more information on Old Coach Road see the Historian V29 Nos1&2 on our Publications page.
A short film recapping those terrible murders that happened over 100 years ago in the small farming town of Newlands, Johnsonville, Wellington. We will never know how many babies Daniel Cooper killed. He was the last person to be hung at the Terrace Gaol, Wellington.
Makara, You did not know about Makara? Makara plays a large part in Wellington history both for European and the Maori people and when war came to New Zealand Makara was on the front line
Death on the Terrace. A short look at the history of Wellington Terrace and its forgotten Prison. The resting place of people who were hung at the prison This was not too far from the Te Aro Junior School.
George shows the outside and inside of KATE, the center for the Onslow Historical Society Inc.