Above: Photographs taken in 2025 by Sage Rossie for the Governors Bay Heritage Trust
Pre- earthquake photos from the archive of Coyla Radcliffe
"The original property was from the sea shore to top boundry of surveyed area. Part of the first land transactions in Governors Bay. Allandale later housed the Garlick family... An old quarry next door supplied stone for this house as well as Vigis & St Cuthberts Church."
Pre- earthquake photos from the archive of Coyla Radcliffe
"So old that even the people of the early 1900s were not sure of the orignial inhabitants. Most probably built for a farmer worker by C. K. Vigis the first land owner. c.1850"