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Planning our future A greener district. Bell Block School celebrated the th anniversary of education in Bell Block in The present school dates from Devon Intermediate is an intermediate years school with a decile rating of 4 and a roll of The school was established in The uniform consists of a polo shirt, sweatshirt and then for girls a choice of culottes or a skirt and boys wear shorts.
Frankley School is a coeducational contributing primary years school with a decile rating of 10 and a roll of The school started as Frankley Road School in A new two-roomed school replaced it in The school moved to its current site in Highlands Intermediate School is a coeducational intermediate years school with a roll of It has a decile rating of 7 and was founded in Facilities include a hockey turf.
Mangorei School is a coeducational full primary years school with a decile rating of 10 and a roll of Marfell Community School is a coeducational contributing primary years school with a decile rating of 2 and a roll of The school was founded in Merrilands School is a coeducational contributing primary years school with a decile rating of 7 and a roll of Moturoa School is a coeducational contributing primary years school with a decile rating of 4 and a roll of The school celebrated its 75th anniversary in Since the school has been home to the two primary classes of the New Plymouth Montessori school, which was previously at the now closed Kaimiro School near Egmont Village.
Moturoa School was the first Enviroschool in Taranaki and has achieved Silver award level. New Plymouth Seventh Day Adventist School is a coeducational state integrated full primary years school with a decile rating of 6 and a roll of Puketapu School is a coeducational full primary years school with decile rating of 4, and roll of Puketapu School was built in Spotswood Primary School is a contributing primary years school with a decile rating of 4 and a roll of The school celebrated its 50th jubilee in St Joseph's School is a coeducational contributing primary years school with decile ratings of 8, and roll of St Joseph's is a state integrated Catholic school.
St Pius X School is a coeducational contributing primary years school with a roll of St Pius X is a state integrated Catholic school. Te Pi'ipi'inga Kakano Mai Rangiatea is a full primary years school with a decile rating of 3 and a roll of Vogeltown School is a contributing primary years school with a decile rating of 6 and a roll of The school was established in temporary premises in July and moved to its own site in May Welbourn School is a coeducational contributing primary years school with a roll of and a decile rating of 8.
It was built on railway reserve land in and celebrated its 75th jubilee in West End Schoo l is a contributing primary years school with decile ratings of 6 and roll of Westown School is a coeducational contributing primary years school with a decile rating of 3 and a roll of Woodleigh School is a coeducational contributing primary years school with a decile rating of 7 and a roll of Central School is a coeducational contributing primary years 1 — 6 schools with a roll of and a decile rating of 8.
It opened in and is one of the oldest schools in the region. St John Bosco School is a coeducational contributing primary years school with a decile rating of 8 and a roll of Fitzroy School is a coeducational contributing primary years school with a decile rating of 8 and a roll of Pouakai Zoo is a Taranaki tradition.
It has been open for nearly four decades, a place where children of the past can bring a new generation of children or even grandchildren to visit the zoo over and over again. The memories of being chased by the geese while you are trying to feed them or walking through the native bush area have created everlasting memories and has made the zoo a part of the Taranaki heritage.
Address: Carrington Rd, Hurworth Our beach is a typical black sand west coast open surf beach exposed to the prevailing southwesterly wind and prone to changeable ocean swells and currents.
East End is by far the safest of New Plymouth's open ocean beaches thanks to a combination of the efficient lifeguard patrols provided by the Club. Spring and Summer Leagues are also played here. Located at the end of Beach Street in Fitzroy, the Volunteer Lifeguards provide a valuable community service to the wider Taranaki community, as Taranaki's most popular surf beach.
Fitzroy Surf Club is a family orientated club with a focus on surf safety and fun for the whole family. We are a family oriented sailing club in New Plymouth. We run regular round-the-buoys racing for all centre-board and trailer yacht classes on Saturdays. The junior fleets racing in the mornings and the senior fleet in the afternoon.
The club season runs from October until April and offers Learn to Sail courses for children and adults. Taranaki is a fierce competitor in the national provincial premier competition - the ITM Cup Premiership. Our top team, the Port Taranaki Bulls is coached by Colin Cooper and a world class team of trainers, medical staff and administrators. Currently it consists of a senior womens team only but in the last 10 years has had a senior mens team up until 2 seasons ago and an Under 11, Under 13, two Under 15 teams and an Under 17 team.
Unfortunately Taranaki Softball no longer has a junior competition and these teams have fallen away. The Womens team are the current Taranaki Champions and have in the last 10 years won the championship 8 times and been the loosing finalist the other 2 years. All enquiries are welcome - age is no barrier our youngest player is 12 and our oldest the wrong side of The clubs aim is for like minded people to partake in the great game of softball, have fun, keep fit and enjoy the company of others.
The hall can accommodate up to people. The land to the southeast of the Marsland Hill hillside played a large part in the punishment of those sentenced to hard labour; over the decades it has been quarried for stone by prisoners and as recently as an inmate told of his week spent 'cracking stones eight or nine hours a day':. It ran that way each day - cell to cold water; cell to quarry; quarry to cold water; cold water to cell.
The monotony of it nearly drove me mad, but what could I do? I was a drunken driver and they must have intended to teach me a last lesson. New Plymouth Prison has had its share of infamous prisoners over the years. These have included Robert Wallath, known as 'The Highwayman', who terrorised the population of New Plymouth in the early s by committing a series of armed robberies until being captured during his attempt to hold up the Criterion Hotel in July Wallath later penned a book about his exploits, A Highwayman with a Mission, and the well-known photograph showing his colourful highwayman's outfit was taken in the courtyard of the New Plymouth jail after his arrest.
George Wilder was another character who caught the imagination of the public after his escape from the prison by scaling one of its highest walls in , and his days on the run inspired the Howard Morrison Quartet to write the song George the Wilder Colonial Boy.
It has also been suggested that Amy Bock, convicted for impersonating a man in marriage, served time with hard labour at New Plymouth. In the s and s the prime location of the prison on Marsland Hill - now in the middle of the growing township - was cited as one of the reasons along with the status of the prison as the national facility for sex offenders for a deputation from the citizens to have the prison moved to somewhere less prominent.
However, the solid stone construction of the building meant that removal and reconstruction was not a realistic option, and Ministry of Justice staff could not justify the demolition of a building that although old was in a reasonably sound condition. Over the years the prison has undergone a number of repairs and modifications for operational purposes, but the basic structure, layout and fabric of the old prison has remained the same.
The beachstone exterior walls were heightened sometime between c. Administration offices have gradually filled in what were once yards directly behind the north-facing wall, and a unit was built in the yard to the southeast in the s, but the exercise yard to the southwest remains as it has for approximately years. Historic images show that there was once a guards' walkway above the central 'Dome' area of the prison, but this is no longer in situ.
The site once also contained five warder's cottages at least one dating from , but these have now been removed, and in one case replaced with a modern structure in the s. In there was accommodation for 50 male and 10 female prisoners, with the average number in custody being Today the prison holds minimum to high-medium security prisoners, plus offenders on remand. The facility was majorly expanded around by the addition of a modern prisoner accommodation unit now used as the more minimum-security unit of the two adjacent to the original stone compound.
The cells in the original block at New Plymouth Prison are reportedly the smallest in the country by today's standards, although the ceilings are 15ft 4. Current prison staff are proud of the historic status of the prison, and work within the limitations of what is the country's oldest prison building still in operation. The gaol at Lyttelton closed in and has since been demolished, and the Mt Cook prison was demolished in the s. Mt Eden prison Category I, Record no.
New Plymouth prison remains as a physical testament to the development of the penal system in New Zealand, and a lasting reminder of a time when prisoners as young as nine years old could be sentenced to hard labour. The grimness of the foreboding stone walls and the starkness of the small cells - which have occasionally offered up hints of their former occupants notes dating from around , meant for another inmate, were found inside the tin sheathing of a cell door during renovation work in - have provided inspiration for artists such as Jono Rotman through their ability to strongly evoke a sense of restriction, isolation and hardship.
The site of the prison also has high potential to provide knowledge of New Zealand history through archaeological remains. For example, there are thought to be at least eight graves of prisoners within the prison confines, including that of executed prisoner Wiremu Hiroki, who was hanged in The wider surrounds of Marsland Hill are of noted archaeological importance, and bottles and other artefacts have been found within the prison grounds.
New Plymouth Prison is regarded as 'one of the few surviving examples of archaeological deposits associated with military hospitals from the period of the New Zealand wars, and has potential to provide information relating to the everyday life and activities of the colonial military and the domestic life of prisoners in the later part of the nineteenth century.
Around five Maori stone adzes were reportedly found by prisoners digging in the prison gardens, and were deposited in the Taranaki Museum. A gully drops away to the south of the complex, at the bottom of which is the Huatoki River, which borders the land parcel to the south and east.
The eastern side of the hill has been quarried for stone, the activity of which was an integral part of prison life for many years. On the hill to the north of the prison is the New Plymouth Observatory, and further towards the crest is the Marsland Hill historic reserve, containing the former Pukaka Pa site and various monuments and memorials to New Plymouth's history including Boer War Memorial, Category II, Record no. The prison complex is situated down a driveway, entered from the corner of Downe and Robe Streets.
The north elevation and front entrance of the old prison block is prominent, and one can follow the exterior walls of the original prison compound round to another point of entry at the south, via a more recently constructed administration block. The stone walls of the original prison block are faced with random rubble roughly brought to course some in broken rangework of New Plymouth andesite, laid with thick joints of cement mortar. The walls are over six metres high and are topped with razor wire.
Many of the blocks contain drill marks evidential of the techniques used to quarry them, and the overall design is typical of Victorian institutional - particularly penal institutions - style. This front historical entrance contains an arched and iron-barred window on either side of an arched doorway; each features a row of corbelled voussoirs, with a decorative keystone at the top of each span.
A corbel course features below the concrete capping of this extension. Original flagstones remain in situ in front of the entrance, under the present tarseal finish of the driveway. The exterior walls continue in a rectangle, and encompass the original prison compound, which is known as Unit One. Additions to the top of this wall made sometime between and are clearly visible.
A plain concrete capping tops the wall. An octagonal tower is situated at the north-eastern corner; once a guard tower this now houses utility pipes. Three barred and arched windows are set into the wall to the west of the entrance projection. The interior layout of the original prison block consists of three wings radiating east, west and south from a central area named The Dome which also provides access to administration areas to the north. Each wing consists of a vaulted central corridor providing access to cells on either side.
Cells are typically small in size approximately 2. Each is furnished with a bed, toilet and basin, small cabinet unit and shelf. Many of the original cell doors remain in situ; these are of heavy wood sheathed with tin, and each has a small round viewing porthole, accessed from the corridor, covered with a swivelling iron plate. Open yards are to the southwest and southeast, paved with tarseal. Some corners of the main wall are curved on the interior corners of these yards.
Toilet facilities are recessed into the south walls of each courtyard; the exterior walls at these points are extended out to accommodate these recesses without compromising the thickness and security of the wall.
A simple brick unit is located within the southeast yard; constructed in the s this is a freestanding building within the yard. Other later additions to the prison complex include a block to the east of the original prison walls, containing a workshop, chapel, gym, admin and boiler room. Another modern construction is a rectangular compound of prisoner accommodation to the northeast of the original prison; this is linked to the original building via an internal corridor extending from the northeastern corner and is known as Unit Two.
The prison site also contains a nursery shed to the west of the original prison walls, as well as a warder's cottage dating from the s and sheds to the south of the site. Original Construction - Site developed, wooden military hospital likely constructed. Modification - Building converted to a gaol; stone and concrete floors laid; wooden walls clad with iron. Modification - Wooden wall partitions replaced with concrete; roof replaced; facility expanded including larger exercise yard; exterior stone walls constructed.
Modification - Additions to the inside of the northern wall - cells, offices, administrative facilities; repairs to roof and floors. Modification - Alterations to kitchen: two female cells converted into a bakehouse; opening made through to kitchen.
Additional building added to site - Warder's house built to south of prison site. Additional building added to site - New prison compound 'Unit Two' built to northeast of original prison block. Cyclopedia Company, Industrial, descriptive, historical, biographical facts, figures, illustrations, Wellington, N. Z, , Vol.
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