Place Category: Residential and Residential todoPlace Tags: house, kay, and people
– Old farm house 1880
– Owned by only two families.
[Dawn Ellis]
This house is behind the butcher’s shop and situated on the original Calvert block. It was built in the late 1920s as the home for the Calvert family.
– Old house – Corner of Coulter and Drower rd (19 Coulter rd ?) [Dawn Ellis]
1st house on left from Candia rd 6 Coulter rd ? [Dawn Ellis]
In 1924 a butchery was established in Swanson by William (Bill) Calvert, who ran a farm on No 1 Road (now Coulter Road). A small shop was built where The Trusts retail shop, Swanson Village Wine and Spirits, is today. In 1935 the Calverts built a new shop on the site where it still is today. The Calv Read more [...]
– Old house made of kauri – Build 1917 – New extension put on top of it – Native trees planted around 1920’s in front of house [Dawn Ellis]
– Build 1886 – Tram valley rd / railway area – Exact address ? – Opposite house was part of Mettam’s farm – Ian Hawkes had it built and was related to the Mettam’s. Built about 1966. (Dawn Ellis) [Rugged Determination, p128]
Arty Strother ran a garage on this site for almost 30 years. After returning from World War II he bought a house (through the rehabilitation programme) next to the present garage and in 1947 accepted the offer of a job from Doug Mattson who had just built a new garage on the corner of Swanson and O’N Read more [...]
– no 688 was a School house – no 692 next door – Concrete blocks made on site [Dawn Ellis]
