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Local History / July 2021

August 2021 | June 2021
    • Station to Station
      • 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).
      • Accepted from Eye of the Fish feed by tonytw1
      • Tagged as:
      • heritage-buildings
      • trains

    • Conversion? No … demolition
      • The number of its parishioners had shrunk to less than a score, so it was inevitable that this beautiful 1960s Brooklyn church would have to find a new use. But was demolition inevitable? Demolition wasn’t mentioned when the Modernist St Matthew’s Church, designed by leading Wellington architect Derek Wilson, was advertised for sale at the end of last year.
      • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features by feedreader
      • Tagged as:
      • brooklyn
      • heritage-buildings
      • St Matthew's Cooperating Church / Co-operating Parish, 96, Washington Avenue, Mitchelltown, Vogeltown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


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