12-09-2008: 1.16pm

I've been busy scanning photographs lately. Several events have led to developments that augur well for the website.
I am being coy to avoid the kibosh, the jinx and the well placed banana skin but it is fair to say I'm excited over recent proceedings.
Note the new Tom Penrose section in Local History, a great addition to the website that happened quite by chance. I was standing on the first tee at Te Marua Golf Course wondering if I'll ever see a decent flood again when I got to talking with a chap also braving the drizzling rain. After listening to me prattle on about the website George suggested I should get in touch with Mr Penrose. If you read this, George, many thanks for the tip.

Tom's recording of the aftermath of the slip and the recovery operation is comprehensive, I'm very fortunate to be able to share the sequence with visitors. This fortuitous meeting bore other fruit too, Tom has also made available his St Pat's College yearbooks 1952-1956. These will be scanned as soon possible.

...more to come.

17-10-2008: 10.51pm

Currently updating the Brown Owl section, that area will be broken until tomorrow. I updated the St Pat's section the other day, 1952 - 1956, cheers Tom.

18-10-2008: 9.21am

459 new images now available in the Brown Owl section.

16-12-2008: 10.28pm

Uploaded new Brown Owl  candid photos, new Upper Hutt College photos, small FAQ update. Hope to get some more panoramas up very soon.  I always make sure to get out and take a few photos but the distractions are many these days and the days are about to get busier.  All good for the site though, definitely good.

22-03-2009: 11.38pm

I've uploaded a bunch of St Pat's Blue and White magazines, I decided to do each year properly, instead of just selected images. More to come as and when I get the rest completed.

I've had a stroke of good fortune too, one of the collections I've scanned for the Library was donated to them by Revelle Jackson.  Many of you will have some of his photographs in your family albums, he was professionally active in Upper Hutt from the 1950s through to the 1980s.  I can't expect the Library to accomodate my every request (I'd be happy to host all these, y'know, g'wan g'wan) but I have been given consent to create indexes of many of the scans from the Revelle Jackson Collection and host those on the site so people can see what is available from the Library. I'll be dividing my time between scanning the remaining Blue and Whites and creating those indexes. Keep an eye out for them, if you went to Santa Claus in the late 1960s you are probably in a couple of the pictures. I wasn't in any of them though, my parents have some explaining to do.

30-03-2009: 1.09am

I've uploaded 158 indexes created from scans of the Revelle Jackson Collection. Look for these in the Local History section. If you were alive in the 60s and early 70s you may appear in some of the indexes. Hopefully you may rediscover photos you'd thought lost forever or photos you didn't know existed. Happy hunting.