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READ MOREThe setting for the successful 1981 Roger Donaldson film 'Smash Palace'. It starred Bruno Lawrence, Greer Robson and Anna Jemison. Nominally a museum this remains essentially a vast car wreckers yard. Pay a 'gold' coin donation and you c...
ViewUnknown to most Wellingtonians for decades, a central city courtyard hidden by earthquake-prone buildings has been transformed into a light and airy hub for food-lovers.
ViewA historic 1887 Inn in the scenic mountain town of St Arnaud. The reasons Heritage New Zealand have chosen this little button of a building as a category one historic place are many and one of the reasons is unusual and macabre. Bein...
ViewNapier's commercial centre is the place to find the most consistent grouping of Art Deco buildings.
ViewImage Credit: Possible Wreckage from the SS Turakina sunk by a German Raider in the Tasman Sea in 1940, Archives New Zealand Navy Records Read on...
ViewWe have Bruce Stewart, founder of the Tapu Te Ranga Marae, to thank for this pouwhenua/statue.
ViewNearby to the present day settlements of Okaiawa and Matapu, this peaceful camping area belies a violent past buried in the depths of the Taranaki Land wars. It's name, Te Ngutu o te Manu, literally means the "beak of the bird", possibly ...
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ViewWhare Ra is distinctive in the oeuvre of James Chapman-Taylor. Constructed between 1913 and 1916 it was his first concrete building and his largest commission. The reinforced walls are six inches thick. Its two levels provided a temple f...
ViewThe Denniston Incline built in 1879 was one of the great creations of the 19th Century. Many called it the Eighth Wonder of the World. Built as a link in the transport of coal from the mines of the Coalbrookdale Seam on the Denniston platea...
ViewWith the exception of the masted ships, a visitor to the Greymouth wharf today might see sights very similar to this 1907 image by Muir and Moodie. The wharf is a veritable step back in time and into a very masculine world of fishing, fishi...
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