A VINTAGE SNAPSHOT OF OUR PAST
On arrival at the Yaldhurst Museum, first impressions might lead you to believe you’ve arrived at a 10-minute-coffee-stop museum – a ‘stretch of legs’ whilst en route somewhere else. On entering the reception area there’s a standard shop and café. But then, without presumption or grandiosity, the fascination begins as you enter through a nondescript door to your right. You are instantly hit by a full and rich experience of New Zealand’s technological past.
General Manager Jon Everitt shows me around the first of many dusty cavernous barns that are full of examples of early transport vehicles. Yaldhurst Museum has amassed an eclectic mix of road transport including one of the largest and finest collections of horse-drawn vehicles in the country.
“This one’s of great interest to many,” states Jon, pointing to a 1886 glass-sided hearse, said to have carried the body
