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Heading home last night, I ducked down Jean Batten Place, lifted the camera high, and took some shots of the remains of the Jean Batten Building.
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History of the building here at the NZHPT site.
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What the building used to look like.
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This post inspired by Jayne's earlier one at the OGSL blog, about Lonsdale House in Melbourne. Pity about Lonsdale House -- they could at least keep the facade, as they've done with the Jean Batten Building.
They've managed to keep that facade quite nicely, Lisa! I'm impressed, well done NZ developers/planners, etc :)
ReplyDeletePity they won't do the same here in Melb. Another blogger, Cazzie left a comment in yesterday's post about an historic heritage protected farmstead that was demolished for council to extend their offices.
Tch! I'd love to know where that was, Jayne, so I can see what reason they gave for why the old building should have been sacrificed like that.
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