39th Worldwide Sketchcrawl Day - Pioneer Village

On a showery cold day we headed down to the Taranaki Pioneer Village near Stratford. I stuck to sketching indoors.

Here is the old Pembroke School Room:

I went back to pen drawing with this one.

After lunch I went up to the Mangatoki Church.

In 1904 the need for a local church resulted in a Union Church being built to serve local Methodists, Anglicans and Presbyterians. Mr Blackhall of Eltham submitted the successful tender for the church. The final church service was held at Mangatoki on 14.2.1988. The church was then moved to the Taranaki Pioneer Village in two sections on 29.3.1988 and 30.3.1988.
The Mangtoki Women's Institute continue to care for the church and the gardens.

This is the beautiful old wooden pulpit:

 

This one I did in pencil and my new watercolours.

Pioneer Village Sketch Crawl

Extra prolific at today's Sketch Crawl at the Taranaki Pioneer Village

Milk Cart in the implements barn

 

Pembroke School relocated here

Plumber and tinsmith's shop

Village forge - I took the liberty of lighting it metaphorically speaking

 

Mangatoki Church

 

 

 

Early Setters - 39th World Wide Sketch Crawl

The driest spot in the province today, the Stratford Pioneer Village.
A snitch of drizzle versus the downpours elsewhere which were delighting the drought stricken farmers.

Court House with fiddly fretwork

Train on the main street

 

 Every NZ Pioneer Village needs a Fergie to clean up around the place.

 



 



 

 

This 1948 Farmall is what used to clean up early villages in the past.

 

 

Maurice & Trisha

Sketching the Farmall

 

 Sketching the milk cart

Refueling for Round 2