Local History and Blogs
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Is a Prime Minster Entitled to a Nice House?
- Eye of the Fish
- There’s been a lot about this house in the news recently – both the paper kind of news, and the TV kind of news. May as well get my news from proper news sources while they exist, seeing as it sounds like soon nothing is going to exist in the news world. What will we do when 3News and OneNews are ditched, and Stuff has gone bust again? Its hard enough to even buy a paper these days, as increasingly nowhere sells them. What do we do in the future – just make up our own news as we go? Seems to be working fine for some people! Anyway, THIS is the house in question:
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Premier House, 260, Tinakori Road, Paekākā, Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Toomath’s Building
- Eye of the Fish
- Farewell to the Toomath’s Buildings then. Designed by architect William Crichton, completed by 1901. Survived years of neglect – did not survive a group of...
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Toomath’s Buildings, Ghuznee Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Leslie Adkin’s Excursion to Kāpiti Island
- Te Papa's blog
- Leslie Adkin (1888–1964) was a farmer by profession, based in Levin.
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Kapiti Island, Kāpiti Coast District, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellington’s Historic Chinese Community
- Wellington City Libraries
- From vegetable shops to supermarkets, from import merchants to restaurants, and from miners to associations, Wellington’s Chinese history provides a… Continue reading Wellington’s Historic Chinese Community →
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Where did Rongotai Terrace go?
- Wellington City Libraries
- With the launch of the newly digitised Ronald Cameron Airport Collection, we take a look back at a version of Rongotai that no longer exists. Ron extensively documented the development of Wellington Airport and the effect it had on the shape of Rongotai, Evans Bay and Lyall Bay in the 1950s. A selection of his photographs are available to view in person at the Kilbirnie Library throughout the month of June.
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Kilbirnie Library (WCC), Kilbirnie Crescent, Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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‘The Streets of My City’: the Legacy of Fanny Irvine-Smith
- Wellington City Libraries
- Previously only available in an online text form, one of the most useful and readable books about Wellington’s local history… Continue reading ‘The Streets of My City’: the Legacy of Fanny Irvine-Smith →
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Plating Up: a talk about the history of Wellington’s restaurant trade
- Wellington City Libraries
- From basic grill restaurants serving countless plates of sausages & chips to French cuisine served on fine porcelain, through to… Continue reading Plating Up: a talk about the history of Wellington’s restaurant trade →
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Do we really need to heritage list any more of central Wellington?
- Talk Wellington
- Heritage NZ are currently consulting on Category 1-listing the Hannah Playhouse. Some bigwigs support it but guest poster Peter encourages us to oppose it in the consultation – open til 3 March Much criticism of heritage listing modern buildings, particularly those of this architectural style, Brutalism, is rooted in architectural snobbery. This post is not about...
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Hannah Playhouse, 12, Cambridge Terrace, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Risk anything! Remembering Katherine Mansfield on the centenary of her death
- Wellington City Libraries
- Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for… Continue reading Risk anything! Remembering Katherine Mansfield on the centenary of her death →
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Dixon Street flats
- Eye of the Fish
- But the big news this week has to be the somewhat silly news that the Dixon Street flats are being emptied out and there is not a clear story of what happens to the building next. This is not a sob storey like the Gordon Wilson Flats just around the corner – well, at least, it hasn’t started off the same.
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Dixon Street Flats, 134, Dixon Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Making Space: Interview with Wellingtonian historian Elizabeth Cox
- Wellington City Libraries
- The hidden history of women and architecture in New Zealand is one that, until very recently, has been a story… Continue reading Making Space: Interview with Wellingtonian historian Elizabeth Cox →
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Let’s Get Wellington Moving… in the 1920s
- Wellington City Libraries
- A century ago, the Wellington City Council was dealing with similar issues to those facing planners today: how to manage… Continue reading Let’s Get Wellington Moving… in the 1920s →
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Lost artworks of Wellington
- Wellington City Libraries
- Wellington is full of public works of art that blend seamlessly into our landscape. Sculptures effortlessly populate the waterfront and botanic gardens while many murals and installations take pride of place on retaining walls, the sides of buildings and in the city’s parks. Many of us tend to wander past these works on our way to work with little more than a passing glance. They’ll be there tomorrow, right?
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Have a Gay Day! The 60th anniversary of Wellington’s Dorian Society
- Te Papa's blog
- Sixty years ago, on 27 May 1962, a group of sixteen men met at a house on The Terrace in central Wellington to discuss forming what would become New Zealand’s first documented homosexual organisation – the Dorian Society. Gareth Watkins shares more of the story of some of the peopleRead more
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Adelaide Hotel
- Eye of the Fish
- It’s seldom that projects get publicly notified these days – the developers usually have it their own way with everything being done behind closed doors. You have to do something seriously different to raise the ire of the Planning Department enough that they feel they have no option but to make it known to the public. The Adelaide Hotel is one such scheme.
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Adelaide Hotel (former), Drummond Street, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Haining’s Historic Heritage
- Eye of the Fish
- It may not seem much like it now, but the Haining St / Frederick St area is brimming full of remnants of an interesting characterful heritage past.
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Haining Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Station to Station
- Eye of the Fish
- Wellington’s main (only?) central Railway Station has been getting a lot of press recently, mostly over the intransigence of the Heritage NZ lobby who are, to be honest, being silly over the heritage of this building. They’ve only just today approved the installation of a pedestrian ramp out the front doors – the disabled have been forced to use the side door for the last several decades. They’re sitting on the approval of installation of the Snapper ticketing terminals because they don’t like the colour. KiwiRail: do it anyway. It needs to be a living piece of heritage, adapting and changing to the times – not preserved in aspic (whatever aspic is).
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The 80s called and they’ve given their magazine back
- Wellington City Libraries
- Wellington City Libraries is bringing the past back to the future with the popular 1980s Wellington City Magazine now accessible online.
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St Gerard
- Eye of the Fish
- Monasteries have always been freeloaders on society – for the last 2000 years or more.
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Mt. Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Listing buildings
- Eye of the Fish
- Not sure if you realise this yet, but the proverbial cat has just been thrown amongst the proverbial pigeons. Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga (what used to be called the Historic Places Trust) has just announced three new grade 1 heritage listings in Wellington: Trades Hall, Wellington Central Library, and a combined Gordon Wilson and McLean flats as well.
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Wellington Central Library, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Dining out in Wellington in the early 1990s
- Wellington City Libraries
- Newly digitised on our Recollect site, the Sheridan Restaurant Guide from 1993 is another snap-shot of our eating-out habits and a startling contrast to the Menu Guide published a decade earlier.
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When Post Office Square was the centre of town
- Wellington City Libraries
- He roamed from Post Office Square to the wharves, where black mysterious little waves suck under sea-rotted, weed-twined piles, from the wharves back again to various haunts of publicans and sinners.
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The Cuba Street Memories Project is moving!
- Wellington City Libraries
- After more than a decade, our Cuba Street Memories Project is moving to a new platform.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Dining out in Wellington during the era of shrimp cocktails and deep-fried camembert
- Wellington City Libraries
- Today Wellingtonians are spoilt for choice when it comes to dining out in the city with a huge range of different cuisines to try and restaurants which cover every budget.
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Dunajtschik demolition a done deal?
- Eye of the Fish
- News just in via the Stuff website that Mark Dunajtschik has won his appeal in the High Court against the Environment Court. But it does not mean that Mr D has the right to go out and demolish the building straight away – instead, a rehearing has been ordered. This legal stuff is exhausting, and expensive. With the amount that Mr D has spent on the legal costs so far, you might think that he could quite easily have just strengthened the building instead.
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Grey Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Halfway House
- Eye of the Fish
- I’m quite interested in New Zealand’s old architecture, particularly those old colonial buildings that we haven’t preserved much of, but can still be found. So I went to Glenside, near Tawa to see an old colonial house. Apparently the suburb of Glenside used to be called ‘Halfway’ back in the day because it was located [...]
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Middleton Road, Grenada Village, Glenside, Wellington, 6037, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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More Dunajtschik
- Eye of the Fish
- Regarding the old Temperance and General Building on Lambton Quay – known to next to no-one as the Harcourts building. Submissions on it’s proposed demolition are due in a week – by the end of the month. It is a crunch point for Wellingtonians – should a building owner be allowed to demolish their building [...]
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Grey Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6012, New Zealand
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Dunajtschik demolition
- Eye of the Fish
- So the time has come at last: the first of a presumed wave of proposals to demolish perfectly good buildings in Wellington. Christchurch has had to put up with a swathe of demolition over the last couple of years, and they are getting so good at destroying everything down there, that they have forgotten that it is not compulsory. Cranmer Courts is their city’s latest disgrace – the Harcourts building is ours.
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Grey Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
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National War Memorial “Earthquake-prone”: Demolition?
- Eye of the Fish
- In some pretty shocking news that has just been leaked out of the new super-ministry this morning, the National War Memorial in Buckle St has been declared to be an earthquake prone building. The building, completed in 1932, has a concrete frame, but the weight of the heavy bronze bells in the Carillon is thought [...]
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41 Buckle Street
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Carmen – ahead of her time
- Te Papa's blog
- Carmen Rupe (1936-2011), a New Zealand transgendered entrepreneur, entertainer, and role model, passed away in Sydney this morning.
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