Hopkins, William Allan
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1857 - 1933
Biography
William Hopkins, a Christchurch land agent, built a lovely old house at 268 Bower Avenue in North New Brighton, naming it after the original Saltaire of Sir Titus Salt. Built in Bradford, Yorkshire, this was a factory and model village for the workers.
William Hopkins was bankrupt and gaoled for four years in 1921, for swindling his clients. Saltaire was purchased by Charles Dixon, a butcher, in 1922. The house was eventually pulled down and, from the 1950s until 2001, Redemptorist priests had a monastery on the site. The Korean Catholic Community owned the monastery from 2006, naming the church St. Paul Chong Huang Church. The buildings were badly damged in the February 2011 earthquakes and later demolished.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Hopkins family papers
Collection
Identifier: CCL Archive 0561
Scope and Contents
Photographs and papers relating to the Hopkins family, largely relating to Saltaire, a house in New Brighton built by William Allan Hopkins and occupied by the Hopkins family. Include black and white photographs of the house and a colour photograph of W. Menzie Gibb's painting of Saltaire. Includes notes concerning the history of Saltaire and its builder, the Gibb's painting and the original Saltaire in Bradford England, copies of family birth, death and marriage certificates and...
Dates:
c1873-1920