Print, Photographic, Dumbleton Collection
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A black and white print showing Phyllis Dumbleton’s “play” boat the Port Thornhill among trees and shrubs. May have been made from an old punt or dinghy with superstructure added. A variation on a play house for an only child. Ropes and rigging with a bamboo mast aft. Phyllis is smiling and wearing a brightly patterned blouse or dress. Sepia images.
Jocelyn Charles Dumbleton (1877 – 1964) was born in Southsea, Hampshire, educated in England and died in Tauranga, NZ. Jocelyn married Winifred Alexander (1894 – 1961) in Auckland in 1918 and they had one child Phyllis Joyce (1919 - 1986) who spent most of her life in Tauranga. A civil engineer by profession he spent the years from 1902 to 1917 in Siam (Thailand) firstly in the Siam State Survey Department and from 1909 for the Siam State Railways. Dumbleton contracted malaria and returned to England on sick leave, eventually resigned from his position and settled in Wellington in 1919 and set up a private civil engineering practice. He had arrived in New Zealand via Australia in June 1917 on the “Makura”. He designed and built a house Wyke Lodge, named after the family home in Hampshire. By 1929 he was practicing as an architect in Rotorua where he lived at 100 Arawa Street and appears in Wise’s NZ Directory there in 1940 but was listed in the 1930s as a farmer in River Road, Hamilton. This was the time when the daughter Phyllis attended Waikato Diocesan School. In 1931 he appeared on Tauranga electoral roll and built a house at Mount Maunganui. He is listed in Wise’s NZ Directory in Mount Maunganui in 1940. (Written and researched by Shirley Arabin)
Jocelyn Charles Dumbleton (1877 – 1964) was born in Southsea, Hampshire, educated in England and died in Tauranga, NZ. Jocelyn married Winifred Alexander (1894 – 1961) in Auckland in 1918 and they had one child Phyllis Joyce (1919 - 1986) who spent most of her life in Tauranga. A civil engineer by profession he spent the years from 1902 to 1917 in Siam (Thailand) firstly in the Siam State Survey Department and from 1909 for the Siam State Railways. Dumbleton contracted malaria and returned to England on sick leave, eventually resigned from his position and settled in Wellington in 1919 and set up a private civil engineering practice. He had arrived in New Zealand via Australia in June 1917 on the “Makura”. He designed and built a house Wyke Lodge, named after the family home in Hampshire. By 1929 he was practicing as an architect in Rotorua where he lived at 100 Arawa Street and appears in Wise’s NZ Directory there in 1940 but was listed in the 1930s as a farmer in River Road, Hamilton. This was the time when the daughter Phyllis attended Waikato Diocesan School. In 1931 he appeared on Tauranga electoral roll and built a house at Mount Maunganui. He is listed in Wise’s NZ Directory in Mount Maunganui in 1940. (Written and researched by Shirley Arabin)
Production place
New Zealand
Measurements
83mm (height), 133mm (width)
Accession number
0251/21
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