Haywards Camp

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TypePhotographDescriptionPhoto of Haywards Hill huts built in 1951 to house 200 single Railway workers who were working on the electrification of the Hutt Valley line. The camp was built near the Woburn railways workshop to be closer for workers than the Gracefield camp. The huts at Haywards were double units.
Across the upper part of the picture you can see the embankment for the new track to come from Taita. The new line crossed the (1951) Taita highway. Accommodation was also for the influx of English, European and Dutch immigrants. Henk (Hendrik) Antonius Van Der Plaats was one of the Dutch immigrants who lived in the Camp immediately after arriving from the Netherlands.Date createdc1951Dates coveredBetween 1st January 1951 and 31st December 1960

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KeywordsCampRailwaystransitimmigranttrainPersonVan Der Plaat, Henk (Hendrik) Antonius PlaceHaywards HillTaitaExternal linkNew Railways camp is taking shape. Evening Post 1 May 1951National Library aerial photo 1951

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AcknowledgementsBronwyn Courtney who supplied the photo. Her Dutch immigrant father Henk lived in the Camp in 1953.

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