Friday, June 28, 2013
More views above a motorway
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Continuing from this post. Photography by Greg Kempthorne Another email today from the State Highway 16 Causeway Upgrade Project f...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Ruins of the Castle Hill Hotel, Canterbury
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A postcard featuring a set of lost ruins in New Zealand -- I couldn't resist. The card is dated 1910, which seems likely. In 1906 (s...
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Watercolour from a war
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A postcard purchased a few days ago -- produced by the University of Otago from an original watercolour held by the Hocken Library: Edwa...
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Three Lamps, Karangahape Road, Lower Queen Street and the wharves on postcards
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Three Lamps, junction of Ponsonby, College Hill and Jervois Roads. One way of dating this undated card: the advertisement for the ...
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Two cards from the Auckland Exhibition 1913-1914
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Difficult to buy postcards from the Auckland Exhibition, because there are folks out there who pump up to prices to crazy levels -...
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Friday, June 21, 2013
Early Pukekohe
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King Street, Pukekohe. Avondale probably looked a little like this back then. As with Pukekohe, Avondale was a rural service centre for ...
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The still lamented Victoria Arcade
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We had a beautiful building on Queen Street once, called the Victoria Arcade (1885). I wish in my first fifteen years of life, I'd...
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
A view to Upper Queen Street
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Another card repatriated from America, looking up Queen Street from outside what was then, and still is, Smith & Caughey's. I...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Murals in Beresford Square
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Around the former Beresford Square underground men's loo, art has bloomed. These first two mural were photographed in February...
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