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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Demolition of Lion Brewery Khyber Pass

The University has acquired the 5.2ha former Lion Breweries site in Newmarket and is creating a new inner city campus. This landmark decision heralds the beginning of a period of long-term development of the site, spanning a 30 year timeframe, to create a mixed use campus, with purpose-built teaching and research facilities, student accommodation, business development and other facilities. The Newmarket Campus joins the City and Grafton campuses to create an integrated campus cluster, supporting long term growth and enabling the University to deliver to Auckland and New Zealand the full benefits of a multi-disciplinary research university. There is already a comprehensive public transport network of bus and rail routes servicing the area which will greatly facilitate rapid movement between the three campuses. The high density development potential and size of the site will support a further 30 - 50 years of growth, providing the University with a rare opportunity to secure its space needs for the future, as well as the opportunity to contribute to Newmarket and Auckland through the development of a very important inner city site.

Friday, May 03, 2013

Preserving 40 years of photographs

More than four decades worth of photographs published by the Taranaki Daily News are about to be loaded on to a ship bound for North America. It is all part of a project involving all Fairfax New Zealand newspapers that will see their old photographs digitally copied and put into electronic archives. Meanwhile, the original photographs will be stored for up to 10 years before being offered back to individual newspapers. For the past few weeks Daily News librarian and archivist Deb Gould and volunteer archivist Graeme Lea have been busy packaging up as many as 100,000 photographs in preparation for their big journey. "It's been a big project," Mrs Gould said yesterday. "The photographs we hold in our library are primarily those published from the early 1970s through to the time our photography went digital in about 2008." The company doing the digitising will create digital images of each photograph in very quick time, and the results of the project are expected back in New Zealand within weeks, she said. "That's stage one of the project. Stage two will then involve sending the company all of the photographic negatives we hold, many of which go back much further than the 1970s. There's thousands of them, too." The shipment of old photographs will head off in the middle of this month. - © Fairfax NZ News http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/8621717/Preserving-40-years-of-photographs ROB MAETZIG Last updated 05:00 02/05/2013

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Musicians' haunt to make way for apartments

SEEKING NEW DIGS: Musician Warner Emery, who will have to move out for 181 Tasman St before it is demolished to make way for a new apartment building. A haven for musicians that has hosted bands such as The Phoenix Foundation will be demolished to make way for an apartment building. The building at 181 Tasman St was home to Lee Prebble's The Surgery, one of the pre-eminent recording studios in Wellington. The Phoenix Foundation used The Surgery to mix all their albums, including the latest, Fandango, released this month. Prebble is moving the studio to Newtown and hopes to open in a month. However, some of the less- well-known tenants may struggle to find somewhere else. Phoenix Foundation member Sam Scott said the band had a lot of affection for The Surgery. "It's pretty dear to our hearts," he said. "But the main thing is, Lee is setting up somewhere else, which means we're not too sad about it." The loss was bigger for other musicians who used 181. "Lee's always supported them," he said. "Wellington is fast running out of places for artists like that. "It's a bit of a nail in the coffin." Prebble said musicians might have to look outside the central city in future. "I feel like there's going to be a big flight towards Petone and the Hutt," he said. "I was lucky to find a place - I was looking for about a year. There are spaces out there but they are often temporary." Musician and producer Warner Emery set up Emery Music Services at 181 a year ago. He was philosophical about the demolition, but said it would be hard to find another place. "It's been on the cards for a long, long time." The building will be demolished, along with the former body shop next door, as part of a new 39-apartment three-storey development. Developer Mike Lee said demolition work had begun on the body shop, where asbestos needed to be removed from a boiler and the garage area. Work on the first 15 apartments on the body shop site should be done by the end of the year. Demolition of 181 Tasman St, and construction of 24 more apartments, would then begin. The apartments have been designed by Wellington architects Novak and Middleton. "I hope everybody views it positively," Mr Lee said. "Our design is modern . . . what we're doing is relatively low-profile. It's not a high-rise or anything like that." Tasman St building makes way for apartments ALEX FENSOME

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Queen Street 1930s

Small Publicity card of Auckland, Queen St, Trams, 1930's cars, No.17 of a series.

Partington's Mill

In 1847 the newly arrived Charles Partington ventured into partnership with John Bycroft and together they took over the Epsom Mill that stood in St Andrews Road. The partnership lasted until December 1849 and in May 1850, for £200, Partington purchased land in Symonds Street and commenced the construction of “the new Windmill” at a cost of £2000. In August 1851 the first flour was advertised for sale. http://www.kroad.com/7_heritage/710_heritage/windmill.htm http://timespanner.blogspot.co.nz/2011/10/watcher-on-hill-partingtons-windmill_24.html