genealogy.ianskipworth.com > Photographs by Robert Hamilton Scott

Photographs by Robert Hamilton Scott (1889-1944) 1907 - 1910 Based in Dunedin, with holiday excursions to Otago Peninsula and to Queenstown and beyond

Easter 1907 : Purakanui and Miniwaka On the Silverstream	Portobello : The Harbour; Easter 1908 (large group of young people in front of cabin); Portobello 1908 (dining outdoors); Warrington Xmas 1908 (camping)	The Silverstream at Whare Flat The whole Scott family 1908 Hedley, Bob (photographer), Syd (in front), Grace, Sarah (seated), Lindsay, Greta, Murray	The Silverstream Water Supply The Intake The Race


After a day's sport, Whare Flat (13 rabbits, 2 ducks, 5 sportsmen with 3 guns); Feeding Time (Bull and Haystack); Shag River; A cloudscape	Kowhai Trees Morning light Otago Harbour Dr Stuart's Statue, Dunedin	Silverstream; Moonlight; At Lawyer's Head	Waiting (horse study) At the Gardens (large old trees in semi-wild area) Sunset at Lawyer's head


The Silverstream; Waitati Creek	The Express "Held Up" (two trains meeting head to head, crowd of passengers standing around Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu (from the hill)	In the Domain (Queenstown) Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu Panorama	Lake Wakatipu Panorama


On Lake Wakatipu : The old "Antrim"; Arrival of the "Mountaineer"	Double Cone Remarkables; The pond in the Park	At Macetown : Visitors at THE Store; Chinaman's Hut; Bachelors (probably two chinese men outside their huts)	Queenstown from the Park In the Park


Kawerau Falls, Frankton Arm Shotover River	Mounts Alfred and Earnslaw Glenorchy Wharf	Paradise Flat The head of Lake Wakatipu	The Road through the Paradise Forest


Diamond Lake from the road The Garden of Eden	In the Garden of Eden Paradise Road	Diamond Lake Paradise	Upper Dart Valley Dart Valley from Paradise


Routeburn : Mountain Lily (Ranunculus) Crossing the River (Routeburn Bridge)	Routeburn Valley : The Hut A cascade The Upper Valley	Routeburn Valley from Lake Harris track Lake Harris Creek Falls	Dunedin's Tallest Building (NZ Express Company, Bond Street, built 1910) Off for a ride (Hedley and Syd Scott on their homebuilt trolley)

Two Panoramic views of Dunedin from the top of the New Zealand Express Company's Building (a) Looking West; (b) Looking North down High Street


Photos around Dunedin, taken circa 1910, not later than 1913


Grace Mary Scott (sister, later Stevenson, Otago representative tennis player) "Waikana" under construction Maori Hill Campers (? Presbyterian Bible Class)	Whare Flat, Dunedin (a) Craiglowan Fall (b) On the Silverstream	Cargill's Caves (Dunedin Coast) Port Chalmers - Yacht under sail View of town from the hill	Regatta Day - Port Chalmers, Yacht racing - Ravensbourne, Otago Harbour from Upper Junction, Henley


Rose Studies	"Neverfrets" Camp Evansdale The Old, And the New	Animal Studies After the Hunt, Pickle, Pickle and Zoie	Blueskin Bay Early Morning, A Fishing Party


Neverfrets, Evansdale : Poker, Cooking	The Taeri River In the Gorge, The Home of Pigeons	Taeri River The Hyde Bridge, Deep Stream	On the Otago Central Railway \| Deep Stream Railway Viaduct, The Tunnel Mouth


Otago Central Line - Flat Stream Viaduct Forth Street - Crossing the Leith	Gore, Clinton, Kingston, S.S. Earnslaw under construction	Queenstown Park - 3 shots Remarkables	Kinloch, Head of the Lake Greenstone Lake, Richardson Mountains


In the Dart Valley	In the Routeburn	The Hut Ranunculus	Routeburn, Ranunculus


Routeburn climbing	Evansdale - The Old Home "Miss" George	Ye Old Style (Sytheing and stooking the harvest) Pickles "Schools In" (Nancy, Greta, Billie, and Una Stevenson)	The Old Farm Shady Pastures


City Path Cliff Tunnel	Evansdale Panorama Blueskin Beach	Greta (Margaret Beith SCOTT - sister - born 1894) Old "Ma"	Maori Hill Presbyterian Bible Class picnic at Waitati October 1910, Maori Hill Presbyterian Church


Purakanui Beach The North Express	City of Dunedin City Centre, North End, N.E. Valley	Dunedin Railway Station Clocktower Sand dunes	Evansdale Sunset Yachts on harbour


Nicholls Creek Ross Reservoir, Silverstream	Netting Blueskin Bay	Sports (Shooting rabbits?) Whare Flat	Manapouri - The Wharf Lake Manapouri and the Monument


Cathedral Peaks Lake Manapouri	Manapouri	Lake Manapouri Berries	Botany Study Kidney Fern


Matterhorn Mountains Leaning Peak	Head of Manapouri	Built to last (stone cottage) Shag River


Pages 1-8 Taken in Britain while on leave from War Service in France Pages 9-16 Taken while on furlough to New Zealand in 1917, using serviceman's NZ Railway pass Pages 17-24 Taken around Central Otago 1913-1914 while employed by Watson Shennan as a shepherd on Puketoi Station Pages 25-60 Taken 1919 -1925 when farming a returned serviceman's block at Castlerock, Lumsden, with visits to family in Dunedin, and hunting and fishing trips to Fiordland with Bill Roxburgh, manager of the Castlerock Estate, and Bill's brother-in-law Lindsay Gilkison.


In the Old Country : The River, Richmond; Albert Memorial; Hornchurch; Harrogate; Wensleydales (sheep)	Scotland : Edinburgh; Banks of the Clyde; Bothwell Castle; Kerera, Oban; Loch Earn	Torquay : Anstey's Cove; Devon Coastline; A Devon Road; Babbacombe Rocks; St Mary Church; Imported Plants; Tor Bay	Beautiful Devon : Cockington Church; Kingkerswell Church; Kingkerswell; An Old Fashioned Street (thatched roofs); Rustic Architecture


Brixham - a Devon fishing village Devonshire Lanes	On Board S.S. Remuera : Duty Furlough Troops; Passengers (dog and 5 puppies); Stormy Weather; Submarine Defence (Torpedo); Tasmanian Coast	Freetown Niggers Troops at Capetown Coaling	Capetown : Cape Flowers Town Hall; Castle Gates Camps Bay


Christchurch, NZ : Moorhouse Avenue; Clock Tower; From the Cathedral Cathedral Square	Christchurch : Museum Porch The Avon The Avon, Winter	In Canterbury : Mt Torlesse; Waimakariri River; Icicles Winter 1923; Oxford Hill; Darfield Church; Toilers (draught horses); A storm brewing; Sports (hunting)	Parliament Buildings, Wellington Mt Ruapehu - Main Trunk Wellington Wharves


Auckland from Mount Eden Auckland Harbour	Auckland : Queen St; At Takapuna; Grafton Bridge; Ham Scott & Co L-R (assumed) Connie Scott (Ham's wife, she died December 1917), Eva Scott (cousin), Michael Hamilton Scott (uncle), Una Scott (cousin)	Rotorua : Baths, Domain Hot Springs, Whakarewarewa Maori Meeting House	Ohinemutu Maori Boys


Pomahaka by moonlight; Pomahaka River Molyneux River - Tuapeka Mouth	Clydevale : H Snushall's farm The Hut; Romney Rams	Horse Studies : The Pet; Workers; Youngsters	Otago Central : Winter's Mantle John Blakeley; The Eweburn


Otago Central : Puketoi Station Puketoi House	Otago Central : The Gate, Puketoi; The Old House (Cob); Jack Quinn - A Pioneer	Otago Central : Puketoi Stud Sheep Waiting for a feed	A Champion Dog Gladbrook Plantations


From North Range Amongst "The Rocks"	Oreti Bridge; West Dome HMS New Zealand; Catlins; Fay	Mrs W Stevenson & Co (L-R Billie, Greta, Grace Mary Stevenson nee Scott, sister, Nancy); Nancy; Una; We are Four (Greta 1911, Billy 1914, Nancy 1917, Una 1919)	Mother's Garden (Sarah Clementine Scott); The Cook (Sarah); Murray Morison (b. 1914, son of Sarah's half sister Maggie)


Lumsden; "Oor House" at Castlerock - shared by bachelor brothers Bob and Lindsay Scott; Queenstown Picnic	Lake Wakatipu Rere Lake Greenstone Track	The Shotover Skippers Bridge	The Milford Track : Lake Te Anau; Glade House; Clinton River The Pass from Pompolona


Clinton Canyon; Arthur Valley from the Pass; McKinnon's Cairn & Jervois Glacier	Sutherland Falls; Arthur River; Roaring Creek; Bowen Fall	Milford Sound : Stirling Fall; The Lion; Mt Pembroke	Lake Ada; From the track; Harrison Cove, Milford Sound


Clifden Bridge Lake Hauroto	Lake Hauroto : Princess Mtns; White Peak, Hauroto	A 13 Pointer by Mary Island; Mountain Tops west of End Peak	Lake Mavora; Outlet, Big Lake; Good Sport (fish); The Road In


The Flatty; S. Mavora Lake; Where the fish lie; North Mavora Lake	Manapouri Oct. 1924 : Safety Beach, Stony Point; The Monument; Cathedral Peaks; Nick-O'-Time Beach	Lake Manapouri: "Skipper" Roxburgh Aweburn Valley; North Arm	Manapouri 1925 : From Murrell's From Cone Peak; South Arm


Deer Stalking : Base Camp; Fly Camp Grere River; A 10 Pointer; Hell's Avenue; Borland Headwaters	Flat Mountain Manapouri Cromel Stream, Five Rivers	Walter Peak, Wakitipu; Capt Scott Memorial, Queenstown; Bowling Green, Queenstown	Five Rivers Bush; Te Anau Downs Harbour Mr Roxburgh on Roger


The Eglinton Valley, Te Anau V Flat from camp; Nob's Flat; Eglinton River	Manapouri : Murrell's Hope Arm	Sun Flecked Waters, Lake Manapouri Channel Islands, Manapouri	At the Head of Lake Manapouri From the Hut; Morning Mist


West Arm Lake Manapouri : Una Burn Spey River	Cathedral Peaks Spey River The Hut, Head of Manapouri	Spey River; Seaforth Valley; Spey Crossing Mica Burn Spey Valley	Castlerock Homestead; The Garden Beautiful, Castlerock (occupied by Miss Besie Barnhill Adamson supported by house and garden staff)


Five Rivers Plain Fay	From the Bungalow window; Mother's Garden (Dunedin, restored after becoming seriously overgrown)	Kawarau Dam being constructed (circa 1925) Mataura River	Bob, Joan and Joan's brother Don Mullan on the farm at Castlerock, circa 1931


Photos taken by Bob Scott 1926-1927


Alexandra Bridge; Lindis Bridge	Clutha River at Cromwell, Lindis Pass Road	Lunch Time, Morven Hills Looking for Deer on Dunstan Creek	Lake Hawea; Mr Capell's Launch, Hawea


Lake Hawea : Timaru Country; Kidd's Creek	Lake Hawea from The Neck Lagoon,The Neck, Hawea	At Lake Hawea \| Splendid Deer Country A 10 point stag	Hawea River Camp at The Neck, Hawea, 1926 - 4 deer trophy heads - Army surplus clothing


Lake Wanaka; View from Summit, Crown Range Road	Lake Hawea; The Rapids, Mararoa River	Salmon Fishing, Lake Te Anau; 17 Jan 1927 Salmon Fishers display their catch - in caps, ties and waistcoats	The Outlet, Lake Te Anau; Waiau River


Lake Te Anau The Harbour, Te Anau Downs	Upokoroa River, Te Anau	Salmon Fishing, Eglinton River Salmon catch 21 inches	The Eglinton Valley


Eglinton River in Flood	Eglinton River Mount Hamilton from Waterloo	Waterloo Valley - on Horseback	Lincoln Agricultural College Southdowns


Bridge of Remembrance, Christchurch Cattle Muster, Te Anau Downs	On Lake Mavora The Head of North Mavora Lake	South Mavora Lake Monowai River	Waiau River Bridge, Monowai Road; Afternoon Tea, Wairaki, Monowai Road


Te Anau from the wharf Entrance to South Fiord, Te Anau	Eglinton River	Eglinton River Te Anau Downs	Manapouri : Mr Murrell's Launch at Head of Lake, Xmas 1927; Cathedral Peaks; Sun Flecked


Manapouri : The Lake at Even At the Wharf	Manapouri : Deer Stalking Camp, South Arm April 1928 South Arm	John Greig Scott (nephew) April 1928 Top Dressing result Fay's foal	Monowai & Green Lakes Lake Monowai from Billow Mts


Electric River Valley; Kaherekoau Mts Billow Mts.	A Mountain Top Vamp Lake Monowai	Monowai & Mist; Monowai Bush Lake Hauroko from Billow Mts.	Embarking for a trip on Te Anau Centre Island Te Anau


Evening, Te Anau Downs; Mid Burn, Te Anau; Entrance, North Arm, Te Anau	Head of North Arm; North Arm, Lake Te Anau	North Arm, Lake Te Anau : Turret Pea Dome Peak The Narrows	Twin Falls Creek North Arm, Te Anau

Photos taken by Robert Hamilton Scott, early 1930s, not in chronological order


North Fiord TeAnau : Glaisnock River; Twin Falls Valley circa 1930	Looking for Wapiti, Glaisnock Valley, Te Anau circa 1930	Lake Roxburgh, Te Anau circa 1930	Picnic Manapouri 9th Feb 1930; Cars and passengers on road to Manapouri; launch on lake


Easter 1931 at Lake Manapouri	Trip to Lake Mavora : Between the Lakes; Mararoa River Trout; Gibralter Rock, Mavora Road	? Probably Bill Roxburgh with Mavora fish; Outlet North Mavora Lake; Rapids Mararoa River	Looking for deer, Red Mountains


Frost at Castlerock, near Lumsden, 31st July 1930	Plough birds - spectacular flocks of gulls followed the plough in the 1930s - placed on threateded species list in 2014. A hard winter 1930 - ground hard frozen as sheep wait hopefully for their daily ration of oats and hay	Murray's family visits Castlerock Xmas 1929 John Murrray Scott, his wife "Ruie" (nee Ruby Alice Greg), sons John Greig Scott 1927, Maxwell Greig Scott 1929	Irthing River; Stud Southdown ram bred by H J Andrew - perhaps the first of Bob Scott's purchases from this well known breeder


Working collie dogs - Star and Donnie	Otira Gorge, Coast Road, 1932. Bob drove from Castlerock to Dunedin (to see his mother), then across the divide via Arthur's Pass and on to Westport for his wedding.	Otira Gorge Nikau Palms West Coast West Coast Punakaiki 1932	Buller Gorge Pelorus River Pelorus Sound


The Church, Stoke Nelson Gardens Wellington from Tinakori The Coast, Kaikoura	The Pines, Westport 22 January 1932 - residence of Rebecca Sinclair and Madge Mullan, grandmother and mother of the bride (a) L-R vicar, 2 bridesmaids, Rebecca Lee Sinclair (grandmother), Robert Hamilton Scott, Joan Sinclair Mullan, John Robinson Mullan (uncle), Madeline Sinclair Mullan (mother), ?Kenneth Sinclair (uncle), Elizabeth Anne Mullan (grandmother). (b) Madge Mullan, visiting child, Joan Mullan, Rebecca Sinclair (c) You and I - Bob Scott and Joan Mullan	The Blushing Bride : Joan Sinclair Scott Puppikins Lake Fergus	Lake Gunn : views from the head and from the foot From Dore Pass : views of Lake Te Anau and of Clinton River from top of pass


Lake Fergus Waiau River Karitane Beach	Hedley and Mother (Hedley Vicars Scott (died 1931) and Sarah Clementine Scott) taken at Sarah's home in Dunedin Joan Scott Karitane	Karitane : Sea Beach Waikouiti River Matanaka	Joan's Garden at Castlerock - a substantial shelter hedge was soon grown inside that rock wall. Buckland's crossing Jan 1933 (? With Stevenson family) A Southland pasture Oreti River


(a) Lake Mavora (b) Mararoa River (c) Don at Blenheim (Donald Sinclair Mullan, on left) employed by Ford to visit dealerships throughout the South Island	From Southland Aero Club's "Puss Moth" 1 April 1933 Te Anau : Looking towards West Coast; Head of Middle Fiord; Snag Burn Valley	Murchison Mountains from the air; "Puss Moth" on landing strip View of Middle Fiord, Te Anau	Te Anau : Tunnel Creek Valley; Ettrick Burn valley


Te Anau : Middle Fiord; From Camp Beach; Hook Peaks	Eglinton Valley Road; Morraine Creek, Eglinton; Otira Gorge Road	Lake Gunn; At The Rocks (Castlerock) 5/3/1933 Sydney Thomson Scott, holding eldest son Donald born 1931, Joan Scott, Lorna Scott (Syd's wife) West Coast beaches	Arthur's Pass; West Coast Roads


Road to Denniston 1932 ; North Road (north from Westport?); Karitane flounders	Mt Eglinton; The Barrier; Lake Te Anau	My Garden (Joan Scott); Pioneer Memorial "The Jollies" taken at the installation and blessing ceremony Wwinter scenes at Castlerock	1934: Baby Mary (Mary Sinclair Scott) with her mother, and with her father.


Gt Grandma (Rebecca Lee Sinclair, know as Gim) in her garden; Ian Hedley Scott (born 1934, Bob's nephew); Elizabeth Roxburgh (Bob's friend's daughter); John Murray Scott and his bride Ruie	Castlerock Sale 1935 (the old station was being split up) Scenes Mimihau Manapouri	Lake Te Anau Hollyford from the Divide	Scenes in Hollyford Valley


Waterfalls : Falls Creek; Holyford River; Homer Saddle	Mt Christina from Ice Cave	View from Gertrude Saddle; Mt Crosscut; Black Lake	Eglinton Valley; Lake Gunn


Lake Gunn; Lake Manapouri; Wilmot Pass	Waterfalls 2 : Cleavegarth Falls; Helena Falls; Doubtful Sound	Doubtful Sound Halls (sic) Arm	West Arm, Manapouri; Wilmot Pass Hutt L-R Grace Stevenson (sister), Una Stevenson (niece); Bob Scott (photographer), Bill Stevenson (brother-in-law), ? Les Murrell (boatman)


Southdown Stud Rams	Landscape : Castlerock farm of Robert Hamilton Scott	Old Soldiers


Family Photos, mainly from late 1930s


Grandpa with Mother (Robert Francis Mullan with Joan b.1905); Cousin Donald (Donald Scott b.1931)	Uncle Syd, Ian, Donald (Sydney Thomson Scott and sons b.1934 & 1931); Cousin Ian (Ian Hedley Scott)	Joan Scott with Mary age 6 months	4 Generations at "The Pines", Westport : L-R Madge Mullan (nee Sinclair) b.1878, with Mary Scott b.1934, Joan Scott (nee Mullan) b.1905, Rebecca Sinclair (nee Hodgson) b. 1851.


Mary Scott age 9 months	Mary Scott age 21 months	Mary Scott age 3 1/2	Mary Scott age 3 1/2


Joan with Mary adjusting to wearing glasses, age 2 1/4	Mary Scott age 2 1/2	Unknown; Mary	Michael Scott b.1938, aged 2 months


Cousins Donald, Ian and Keith Scott; Michael's first steps (1939) overseen by sister Mary	Michael playing on wheelbarrow, 1 year 9 months	Michael with sewing machine; The house at Browns, after a major renovation 1940	A new giant colouring book from the Centennial Exhibition


Cousin Keith; Michael 7 months (looking like his son Hamish)	Mary and Michael with their Karitane Nurse, and Gimmie January 1940 - Mum and Dad away in Wellington at the Centennial Exhibition	Gimmie (Gt Grandma), Joan, Mary and Michael September 1939	Bob Scott captured by a street photographer in Invercargill, off on a day's business; Who could forget Michael's fascination with long hair? (Dec 1939)


Joan, Mary and Michael	Gimmie reads a family letter to Mary; Joan admires her baby boy	Christmas 1938, open presents before baby wakes for bath and feed at 10. No time to dress gt grandma and do her hair; feeding a pet lamb	Invercargill Gardens, Mary, Joan, Michael and Bob


Joan, Mary and Michael on the track up Ben Lomond	Baby Michael, Joan and Mary	Mary with brother Michael Scott age 7 months Jan 1939; Cousins Donald and Ian Scott circa 1936; Bob Scott, junior golf champion Otatara, Invercargill, 1938	The Pines, Westport - home of George and Rebecca Sinclair


Michael and Mary at Queenstown with Noeline Wilson from Winton	Fo Fo Band - the Stevenson cousins and friend in Dunedin	Uncle Syd Scott at the Invercargill gardens with Mary, Michael and Joan	Mary at Queenstown (remembers the tree being pruned to suit this photo)


Album G


Winter 1939 at Castlerock	Masterton Ram Fair 1940 Our home Castlerock 1939	Hutt at Doubtful Sound (taken by Una Stevenson) Cloud study	Marine Parade, Napier (visiting Syd Scott 1940)


Wellington 1940 : Lambton Quay Centennial Exhibition Tower (burned down 1946) National War Memorial, Carillon Tower	Mary at the Beach, Riverton Rocks Michael explores career options 1940-41	Renovating a new home at Browns - before and after (1940)	The Wheelbarrow Driver (Bob's favourite image)


Children at play; a souvenir from the Centennial Exhibition	Landscape studies Michael at Browns	?? Roxburgh family Michael and Mary	Michael, Joan and Mary on Ben Lomond track; Bob and Mary enjoy the view from near the summit (early 1943?)


Piano Practice Queenstown Park	Selected images	Avenue at Arrowtown (Bob and Mary spent a day walking from Queenstown, 1943)