"Day trippers return" Oil painting - size 890x645mm

The Days Bay ferry, Duchess is just coming into its berth having returned from Eastbourne with a boat load of people who have enjoyed a day at the bay. Queens Wharf lies behind and tied up at the outer T is the Union Steam Ship Company’s Lyttelton ferry Rotomahana in the last years of her active service during the first decade of the 20th Century.

"All aboard for Napier please" Oil painting - size 710x560mm

A New Zealand built Standard railcar displaying original livery is about to resume its journey sometime in the late 1930s. Passengers were always well dressed in earlier decades when travelling; and trains and railcars stopped to provide refreshments rather than have dining facilities on board.

"Hutt Road at Ngauranga, 1875" Oil painting - size 700x540mm

Based on a photograph by William Travers, this painting depicts an early passenger train heading for the Hutt Valley within a year of the opening of the railway service.

"Three Kings Tram, Mt Eden" Watercolour painting size 630x520mm

A south bound tram is travelling from the city centre along Mt Eden Road en route to Three Kings during the 1950s. Mt Eden is on the skyline behind the suburban shopping centre. Auckland trams were replaced by buses after December 1956.

"Pamir at the heads" watercolour painting size 490x447mm

Flying the Finnish Flag, the Pamir enters Wellington Heads in July 1941. On arrival the ship was seized as a prize of war by the New Zealand Government. From then until 1948 the Pamir sailed under the New Zealand Flag. She was eventually returned to her owners, setting sail from Wellington in February 1949 on her delivery voyage home, never to return.

"Fly past approaching, Wairarapa Airshow" watercolour painting - size 630x530mm

A group of people are eagerly anticipating the fly past of some display aircraft at a recent air show at Hood Aerodrome in the Wairarapa. Behind them are parked several old Air Force Harvard Aircraft.

"Tram stop Karori Road" watercolour painting - size 750x600mm

A group of ladies is boarding a tram at its last stop in Karori Road before heading via Chaytor Street for the city centre and beyond one afternoon in the early 1950s.

"Tea time, Egypt 1915" watercolour painting - size 610x510mm

A group of Kiwi soldiers with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force is having a snack and cup of tea while stationed in Egypt during the First World War.