The Back Cottage

Posted Wednesday, May 19 2010.

This cottage was part of the Te Apiti Station formed in 1853 at Kairakau Beach, near Waipawa, south of the Hawkes Bay. Access to the station was only by sea and the “back” cottage was so named as it was the furtherest house on the station from the ocean.

One of Aucklands oldest houses

Posted Monday, December 07 2009.

This months picture shows the re-roofing of one of the oldest houses in Auckland City which has been added to over a number of years. The earliest part on the right hand side was constructed in 1857 while the front and left hand side were constructed in the 1860s & 1890s respectively.