Brendan Graham
Artist, Photographer, Colourist
Wellington - Te Whanganui-a-Tara
New Work
Picturesque view of Lyall Bay beach Wellington- 1925
Shows two women with three children playing on the beach at Lyall Bay, Wellington. In the background, at the water's-edge, some people are paddling. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith in 1925.
The road, and the suburb that shares its name, honour Dr David Lyall, a Royal Navy medical officer and naturalist who took part in a survey cruise of the area in 1847.
Lyall, a Scot, was an inveterate traveller who visited both the Arctic and Antarctic - adventurous stuff for the 1800s.
Before Lyall lent his name to the area, it was known as False Bay, after several shipwrecks had occurred when sea skippers misjudged the rocky outlets and the tides.
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
Queens Wharf, Wellington. 1908-1910
Looking west down Queens Wharf, Wellington, showing pedestrians, carts and carriages. The Wellington Harbour Board office and store are in the middle ground (right). The Harbour Board head office is in the middle ground (left). Two boys in uniform are in the foreground. Building on the left is now the home of the Wellington Museum.
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
Milkman, Karori, Wellington ca 1910
In the days of horses and carts, milkmen carried big vats of milk on a horse float and filled the household billy. In some places horse delivery continued on into the 1960s, when trucks took over completely. Milkmen bought a ‘milk run’, and often worked in the very early morning before other vehicles were on the road.
The switch from vats to glass bottles came in the 1950s. People left money in one of the bottles or, later, used tokens, usually bought at the local dairy. The shift from the pint bottle to cartons came in the late 1980s.
Colourised By Brendan Graham 201 from an original black and white Image courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
Bank of New Zealand, Lambton Quay and Customhouse Quay, Wellington. July 1879
A group of people stand at the front of the bank, some noticing the photographer. A few were too impatient to wait for the end of the photograph, leaving only ghostly figures. One boy stands in three different places before deciding to stand with this back to the camera!
To the right there are two false shop fronts, one signed as a Sailmaker. Barrett's hotel stand closest to the left followed by an Athenaeum (school/library).
Colourised By Brendan Graham 2017 from an original black and white Image courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
Gillnet fishing boat Dominion
The Dominion, operated as a gillnet boat by the Famularo family, photographed at Island Bay in the 1930s by Sydney Charles Smith. Taputeranga Island is in the background.
Colourised By Brendan Graham 2018 from an original black and white Image courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
Corner of Manners and Boulcott Street, Wellington. circa 1885
Looking down Manners Street to the corner of Willis and Boulcott Street. It's late in the day and the sun is just about to set off to the left of the photo.
To the right a store has bird cages hanging up with (hopefully) stuffed birds on display. Two buildings down you can see the word 'arcade'. In the distance a horse-drawn tram is being pulled down the center of the road.
Colourised By Brendan Graham 2015 from an original black and white Image courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
Lambton Quay, Wellington, 30 April 1905. Shows Lambton Quay, taken from the corner of Willis Street. The Exchange building is to the left, and part of the Bank of New Zealand building can be seen on the right. Two trams, one with the destination of Oriental Bay, are travelling along the road. Men can be seen crossing the street, and a horse and cart is in the distance. Photograph taken by the firm Muir and Moodie.
Colourised By Brendan Graham 2016 from an original black and white Image courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
New ticket office under construction at the Wellington Railway Station - 1957
View Before-After
Colourised By Brendan Graham 2017 from an original black and white Image courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
BNZ Wellington. ca1927
Busy intersection of Customhouse and Lambton Quay, showing the Bank of New Zealand. An officer directs traffic in the foreground.
Tram 103 to the left looks to be on route to Island Bay and has two posters displayed below the window: ‘Give books this Xmas’ and ‘Plunket Shield Cricket Welly vs Otago - Xmas and Boxing day - Basin Reserve’ Tram to right en-route to Aro Street. The last tram to travel the Wellington Streets was 37 years later, on 2nd May 1964.
Colourised By Brendan Graham 2016 from an original black and white Image courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
Petone - Pito-one
Jackson Street, Petone 1924
"In 1929 if you motored through Petone, the speed limit there was 15 miles per hour (25km). Pedestrian crossings didn't appear until about the late 20's. Most long-time residents of Lower Hutt will recall that in the 20's - and even the early 30's - they could walk at a leisurely pace across Main street (High Street), or hold a conversation in the middle of the street without fear of hindrance from motorists, horses and fellow pedestrians."
Kaye ,G.(1999) Pages from our past. Lower Hutt: The Hutt City Council.
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
Jackson Street, Petone 1924
"In 1929 if you motored through Petone, the speed limit there was 15 miles per hour (25km). Pedestrian crossings didn't appear until about the late 20's. Most long-time residents of Lower Hutt will recall that in the 20's - and even the early 30's - they could walk at a leisurely pace across Main street (High Street), or hold a conversation in the middle of the street without fear of hindrance from motorists, horses and fellow pedestrians."
Kaye ,G.(1999) Pages from our past. Lower Hutt: The Hutt City Council.
Lower Hutt - Awakairangi
Naenae Post Office 4 Dec 1959
Naenae Post Office opening with unidentified adults and children sitting in the front grass area, Lower Hutt, Wellington Region.
Colourised By Brendan Graham 2019 from an original black and white Image courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
High Street, Lower Hutt. ca1948
Shows a car travelling along the street, with pedestrians crossing the road and other cars parked nearby.
At the time this image was taken (1948), the building on the corner of High Street and Laings Road stood as the Council chambers. The building originally served as the Post Office and was opened in 1906. In 1943 a new Post Office was opened on the corner of Andrews Ave and High St.
The former Post Office became the Council Chambers until it was demolished in 1957, after the erection of new Council Chambers and Town Hall further along Laings Road.
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
Jackson Street, Petone 1924
"In 1929 if you motored through Petone, the speed limit there was 15 miles per hour (25km). Pedestrian crossings didn't appear until about the late 20's. Most long-time residents of Lower Hutt will recall that in the 20's - and even the early 30's - they could walk at a leisurely pace across Main street (High Street), or hold a conversation in the middle of the street without fear of hindrance from motorists, horses and fellow pedestrians."
Kaye ,G.(1999) Pages from our past. Lower Hutt: The Hutt City Council.
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
Lower Hutt railway station (Western Hutt Railway Station) taken by Muir and Moodie, circa 1900.
The building is now leased to various shops and businesses, and is called The Station Village Complex
The station used to be on the Hutt Valley Line section of the Wairarapa Line until 1 March 1954, when the Melling-Belmont section of the line on the western side of the Hutt Valley was closed and thethrough line to Upper Hutt and the Wairarapa rerouted through the centre of the valley. The truncated line to Melling via the Western Hutt Station was then electrified.
In the 19th century, the line from Wellington to the Hutt and the Lower Hutt Station were opened on 14 April 1874.
A new station building was erected in 1892, containing a ladies as well as a general waiting room.
Colourised By Brendan Graham 2015 from an original black and white Image courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
DSIR glass blower 12 Nov 1959
View of an unidentified glass blowers in action at the DSIR Dominion Physical Laboratories, Gracefield, Lower Hutt, Wellington Region
Colourised By Brendan Graham 2016 from an original black and white Image courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
A diver from the Hutt Valley Drainage Board at Naenae Pool, Lower Hutt 1958
Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer.
Colourised By Brendan Graham 201 from an original black and white Image courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
Scene at Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt, showing the flock mill of Hutt Flock Mills Ltd. The group to the left are possibly the Mason children. Photograph taken circa 1910 by an unidentified photographer.
The mill stands on the site of what later became 7-9 Woodville Grove.
Colourised By Brendan Graham 2015 from an original black and white Image courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
Lower Hutt, Transport Centre
The street to the right being Bunny Street and to the left is what was part of Queens grove (Now been swallowed up by the current mall) This photo was most likely taken for the completion of the building.
New Zealand Railways Road Services Bus arriving in Lower Hutt, Wellington Region, including shopping centre and parked cars 25 Mar 1959
Colourised By Brendan Graham 2016 from an original black and white Image courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
Cars parked outside General Motors plant in Petone, Wellington. ca1940s
Photograph of automobiles parked along Bouverie Street. The buildings of the General Motors car manufacturing plant stand to the right with the Korokoro hills in background.
Colourised By Brendan Graham 2017 from an original black and white Image courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
BNZ Wellington - Colourising by Brendan Graham
Island Bay, Wellington July 1957
Fishermen bringing in a dinghy at Island Bay, Wellington
Colourised by Brendan Graham 2017
All prints are made to order (typically within 3 - 5 days)
Framed Print & Print
High quality fine art print on smooth (hot press) matte art paper using Epson UltraChrome archival inks. All frames are 100% NZ made from plantation grown timber.
Canvas
Printed on 100% premium cotton UV protected canvas using Epson archival inks. The canvas is then stretched on a 100% NZ made wooden frame from plantation grown timber.