Kōrero: Cleveland, Francis Leslie

McKenna’s House of Antiques

A two-storey brick building with Victorian architectural features, labelled McKenna’s House of Antiques, alongside a small, semi-derelict shop selling cigarettes.

Many of Les Cleveland’s photographs of the 1950s and 1960s, such as this 1959 image of the corner of Molesworth Street and Lambton Quay in Wellington, capture the fading remnants of Victorian architecture in New Zealand cities and towns.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: Les Cleveland Collection. 1/4-128795-F

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārangi:

Lawrence McDonald. 'Cleveland, Francis Leslie', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2023. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/6c15/cleveland-francis-leslie (accessed 10 May 2024)