Kelvin Grove Community Assn. Inc.

Central Kelvin Grove - 1937-8

Kelvin Grove Hall (built 1935), with the tiny Kelvin Grove Post Office barely visible to the right of that, then the Kelvin Grove School partially obscured by trees. On the opposite side of Kelvin Grove Road is 'Gray's Cottage (which still exists) and to the right of that is the school teacher's house. That house was taken to Foxton Beach as a beach house in the 1940s, and another (now also gone) was built in its place.

Noteworthy in the scene is the lack of the diagonal Whakarongo railway deviation, that was construction a year or two later. The lower photo of the same scene in 1991, shows the outline of the deviation, which was finally abandoned in 1979. McLeavey Drive was subsequently built on the deviation, which was planned to reconnect with the Hawkes Bay line near Stoney Creek Road.

The two red roofs shown below are the former Kelvin Grove Hall and Gray's Cottage. The upper photo was taken by Vera Burr (later McLennan-Boman), who at the time was the Kelvin Grove Postmistress.

Last Updated: 1 January 2007