This is an image from Mark Bishop. Here are the previous posts: Queen and Wellesley, Newton Rd, Kingsland, Mt Eden Rd, Dominion Rd, Karangahape Rd
These images were developed by merging together various historic black and white photographs (all from the “Sir George Grey Special Collection” – Auckland Library) with contemporary colour photographs taken at the same location.
The black and white photographs were taken between the years 1900 to 1940, and cover a number of areas of the city and the outlying suburbs. The colour photographs were all taken in early 2015.
The intention of these images is to use photography to help show how much has changed – or not changed – over almost one hundred years by focusing on locations that are familiar to Aucklanders.
It is interesting to think that the people, horses and trams seen in these images passed by around a century ago where we walk and drive today.
View looking south from Mt Eden. This image demonstrates the degree of landuse and landscape change that has occurred within this area over the last 100 years. The cones of Three Kings are intact. Mt Eden Road is on the right hand side, and the corner of Stokes Rd and Eglinton Ave is centre foreground. Black and white photograph (May 1913) from “Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries 1-W1396″.
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I was up Mt Eden on Friday and made one of these too!
Mine is looking west from the eastern side of the summit:
http://i.imgur.com/RxSkfED.jpg
Sad we no longer have the Kings! And see how quickly the urban area ended…
The apparent abrupt stop to the urban area will be partly due to the big dip in Mt Eden Rd, south of Greenlane Rd
what happened to the kings?
They are now a big hole, about to be filled up with housing by Fletchers, hopefully in a less crap way than at Stonefields.
They are now gravel and concrete used in building Auckland.
Great photograph.
They did not have far to transport meat, milk and vegies to the people of Auckland in those days.
Today Auckland is supplied by tonnes of food transported from all over the North Island and from the South Island as well.
Hence the need for a great roading network.
Great *transport network, would be much cheaper to use rail.
Sailor Boy, no where in NZ is rail used to transport livestock.
Auckland Meat Processors in Southdown require weekly 3000 steers, 10,000 lambs, 2500 pigs, 5000 mutton, 500 goats.
http://www.wilsonhellaby.co.nz/livestock.html
And that represents probably half of Aucklands meat requirements.
Now should I mention vegetables, that normally goes straight to the Super market and that is not by rail. Rail cannot deliver.