This photo shows the Williams General Store on Main Road, around 1939. The building was originally part of McIlvride...
Wainuiomata: Photos
Photographic timeline of Wainuiomata
Documenting Wainuiomata with an ever growing collection of photos. This includes locations such as the town centre, suburbs, landscapes, coastline, rivers, and reserves.
Photo articles are dated by the age of the main photo or the main subject rather than when the article was written. This places the photos in a timeline. Some photos date back to the 1800s. We either have permission to show these old photos or they have no copyright. Modern photos on the site were taken by David Johnson unless otherwise specified.
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Lower Dam in Wainuiomata or the original dam as it was also known was drained in 1939 for maintenance....
Photo of Fitzherbert Road and Wainuiomata Roads (circa 1939) taken by the Wainui-o-mata Development Ltd; Todd, Harry Jackson (1918-1993).
Photograph taken in October 1936 showing the Lower Dam and the original intake where water was diverted into the...
Pictured is Dick Wootton, a woodcutter and post splitter from Orongorongo Station. He's working on a 2-meter diameter Totara...
View from the Five Mile Track at the top of Gut Buster in the year 1933. In the distance,...
This historic photograph shows Opossum Lodge / Possum Lodge and its external convenience (longdrop) as it appeared in the...
St Albans House, located on Coast Road in Wainuiomata, was built in the late 1920s for Maurice James Burdan...
The Orongorongo Pipeline, constructed between 1921 and 1926, played a crucial role in supplying untreated water to Wellington.
Orongorongo Meter House was erected no later than 1926. Today, it's hidden in native bush inside Wainuiomata Regional Park.
Aerial view of Morton Dam in the year 1924. You can see the spillway, tower with gantry, and reservoir...
Looking at the Morton Dam spillway in action in the year 1924. Morton Dam was once the main source...
Views of the Orongorongo pipeline bridges that carries the Orongorongo Water Pipe across the Orongorongo River.
The caretaker’s house in the Orongorongo Valley was built around 1922 to 1923 during construction of the Orongorongo water...
George Creek Road was built in 1922. It runs from Morton Dam to the Wainuiomata entrance of the Ōrongorongo...
This hidden site in Wainuiomata is believed to have housed a power generator used during the construction of the...
Maintenance Road is an unsealed track that once provided access to the Orongorongo pipeline, from the Orongorongo catchment.
Tucked away in a gully two miles from the Morton Dam in Wainui-o-mata, Semple’s Camp served as the central...
Scout Hut, also known as Pearson Hut, stood from 1912 until 1995 in Reservoir Valley. It eventually succumbed to...
The Orongorongo Tunnel, also known as Semple's Tunnel, is a landmark in New Zealand's water infrastructure history.
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