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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.

Wellington Subdivision Advertising Bills

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.

Ngaio and Khandallah Review / The Social Review

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.

The Onslow Historical Society Oral History Project (1993)

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.

The Short History of Johnsonville

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.

The Glenside Walk

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.

Old Coach Road, Johnsonville

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.

Newlands Baby Farm Murders

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

A Walk to Makara

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.

The Terrace and its forgotten Prison.

George shows the outside and inside of KATE, the center for the Onslow Historical Society Inc.

Onslow Historical Society