Public Address | Cafe | Capture: Wellington? Well, I Would. https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270403#post270403 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270403#post270403 Through a curtain, darkly

4pm, right? :)

]]> Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:56:34 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270402#post270402 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270402#post270402 Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:31:49 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270401#post270401 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270401#post270401 Through a curtain, darkly, from the Quality on Cuba.

And one on one of those good days.

]]> Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:27:57 +1200 Jonathan Ganley https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270399#post270399 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270399#post270399 classic shot

Thanks Lilith – he doesn't know I have posted it yet, I better tell him ...

]]> Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:35:24 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270364#post270364 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270364#post270364 Desperados!

Best done nude at midnight.

At least it was in 1968.

]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:15:07 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270363#post270363 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270363#post270363 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:12:12 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270362#post270362 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270362#post270362 Yes I don’t think it lasted too long!

Te Papa foyer

And another oriental Bay pic.

]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:59:30 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270359#post270359 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270359#post270359 A knitted g-string keeps things seemly!

Easily unravelled, though? ;-)

]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:53:25 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270358#post270358 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270358#post270358 A knitted g-string keeps things seemly!

And another view from Te Papa.

]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:51:00 +1200 Aidan https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270315#post270315 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270315#post270315 Bit late on this ...

A view from Te Papa

]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:23:11 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270303#post270303 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270303#post270303 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:05:13 +1200 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270259#post270259 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270259#post270259 The Jet-prop set.
Thanks to Simon 'Propeller Records' Grigg, the real deal.

]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 07:59:29 +1200 Jonathan Ganley https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270258#post270258 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270258#post270258 Big props!

The Jet-prop set.

]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 07:53:54 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270257#post270257 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270257#post270257 Flights of fancy...
I love this NAC-on-acid vision of Wellington...
Big props!
That's a very quaffable looking harbour
– NAC, putting the Port in port city since 1947!

]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:56:13 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270248#post270248 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270248#post270248 Wonderful NAC pic (notably pre Te Papa).
Here is another photo from the January lights in the Botanical Gardens. Underlit magnolias.

]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:44:02 +1200 Jonathan Ganley https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270247#post270247 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270247#post270247 (“in memory of Edward Gibbon Wakefield”) … that’s my bro looking north in the first photo, while in the second photo the Duke of Wellington looks down at the city that bears his name … ]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:32:10 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270246#post270246 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270246#post270246 FLY IN THE STILL EVENING AIR WITH NAC

MKay! ;-)

Great picture, though.

]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:49:38 +1200 Jonathan Ganley https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270245#post270245 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=270245#post270245 Peter Alsop’s Selling The Dream book, and I hope Peter won’t mind that I have copied it from the sample PDF and posted it here. ]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:36:07 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269926#post269926 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269926#post269926 Thank you. My people will talk to your people..

Found another one. If I can locate the original files (from 2004), I think I had it going even further round. Will have a dig.

]]> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:49:25 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269918#post269918 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269918#post269918 John Chambers and Son 1989.

And again in 2012, now the Xero building.

Doesn't it look smart now? Glad to see an older building rescued.

]]> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:53:56 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269903#post269903 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269903#post269903 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:40:14 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269884#post269884 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269884#post269884 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:15:00 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269874#post269874 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269874#post269874 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:54:25 +1200 Alex Efimoff https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269873#post269873 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269873#post269873 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:46:37 +1200 Alex Efimoff https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269872#post269872 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269872#post269872 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:45:24 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269736#post269736 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269736#post269736 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:05:22 +1200 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269729#post269729 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269729#post269729 Corner of Ghuznee and Taranaki, where they have films and a cafe and stuff..

Yes that's what it says ;)

]]> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:28:47 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269727#post269727 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269727#post269727 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:23:05 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269726#post269726 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269726#post269726 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:18:51 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269725#post269725 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269725#post269725 Not too long ago it was the Rialto Wellington cinema, and since then the Embassy & Paramount have since picked up the slack.

The Heritage page says; "The present occupant is the New Zealand Film Archive and Film Centre." I guess I should know, but where have they moved to?

]]> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:17:59 +1200 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269715#post269715 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269715#post269715 apartment extensions next door are currently in the works. ]]> Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:26:21 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269714#post269714 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269714#post269714 John Chambers and Son 1989.

And again in 2012, now the Xero building.

]]> Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:42:48 +1200 ChrisW https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269695#post269695 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269695#post269695 I guess the station was grimy and sooty and grey then, no longer glamorously new, not yet proudly old.

But cleaned up on a bright blue-sky day with the flag flying in the wind, blue and gold Otago colours framing it left and right – I can appreciate it would…

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 21:57:14 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269694#post269694 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269694#post269694 Thanks Chris again-my mother, who was just 25 when her father died (a lovely lovely
man-whom I just remember as big warm cuddley and brown hugger) understands my love of the station but associates it with her father’s coffin-
I only knew him until I was 5…)

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 21:31:33 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269693#post269693 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269693#post269693 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 21:24:36 +1200 ChrisW https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269692#post269692 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269692#post269692 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 21:02:58 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269691#post269691 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269691#post269691 Fantastic ChrisW. That totally lives up to the hype.The inside is crazy: like the 1930s and not a soul around other than a lone tour-seller when I went a couple of years ago. ]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:56:26 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269690#post269690 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269690#post269690 And, thanks Chris!
I've got this as desktop now – should I pay/&/or/acknowledge someone?

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:48:18 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269689#post269689 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269689#post269689 Fantastic ChrisW. That totally lives up to the hype

and also to Lilith-

the Dunedin railway station is part of my earliest childhood memories (e.g when my grand-dad was dying, the colours & visions (aside from the sounds – I've always loved steam trains) distracted me from the surrounding adult grief.))…

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:46:12 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269688#post269688 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269688#post269688 That totally lives up to the hype

Those urns, though? Don’t stand nearby in a quake! /Chchparanoia

You should see the stained-glass windows, Jack.

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:20:51 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269686#post269686 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269686#post269686 1906 Dunedin Railway Station in 2010

Fantastic ChrisW. That totally lives up to the hype.

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:15:45 +1200 ChrisW https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269682#post269682 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269682#post269682 And the Seddon monument. Hm. I'm sure sometimes a tall column is just a tall column!
Of course, symbolising great achievements and esteem, not ... ahm – the other thought never crossed my mind! :-)

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:04:06 +1200 ChrisW https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269681#post269681 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269681#post269681 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:52:29 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269680#post269680 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269680#post269680 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:39:58 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269679#post269679 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269679#post269679 In Dunedin post-quake, I stared open-mouthed at all the twiddly bits on that facade! Amazing building.

Photos anyone? Don't let the Wellington tag stop you.

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:37:08 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269678#post269678 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269678#post269678 That place is a definite national treasure

In Dunedin post-quake, I stared open-mouthed at all the twiddly bits on that facade! Amazing building.

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:26:49 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269677#post269677 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269677#post269677 Wellington is a strange place :) but I love this city!

Hey Alex. Thanks for dropping in. That's an impressive panorama.

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:26:38 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269676#post269676 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269676#post269676 As for grand, I’ll give Wellington a pass mark for effort, but Dunedin wins hands down.

Tautoko. That place is a definite national treasure.

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:16:08 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269674#post269674 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269674#post269674 the monument’s symbolism was thoroughly explained

Gosh. That's quite wonderful. If arguably laying it on a bit thick. :-)

And the Seddon monument. Hm. I'm sure sometimes a tall column is just a tall column!

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:06:30 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269673#post269673 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269673#post269673 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:05:28 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269672#post269672 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269672#post269672 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 17:55:52 +1200 Alex Efimoff https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269671#post269671 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269671#post269671 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 17:51:28 +1200 ChrisW https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269669#post269669 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269669#post269669 Yes I've always understood Harry Holland's monument to be symbolic, to be classical and uplifting and aspirational in some way. He's buried here so this is no more meant to be a direct representation of him than a marble angel is on many another mortal's grave.

But thanks to your…

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 17:47:16 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269668#post269668 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269668#post269668 We are amused...
360 degree panorama from the Mount Victoria lookout
I used to live in a house just under that transmission tower at the 360 start, not the white installation visible but on the other side of that hill about level with the mans waist... but also level with…

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 17:39:10 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269667#post269667 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269667#post269667 I’ve always loved the Welly railway station: the exterior’s so grand and the inside’s so bustling.

It always struck me as being more void than place, a hollow vacancy people rush through on their way elsewhere. I suppose that is the prime function of railway stations, but I think Wellington…

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:57:15 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269666#post269666 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269666#post269666 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:02:26 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269664#post269664 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269664#post269664 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:58:58 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269661#post269661 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269661#post269661 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:14:40 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269660#post269660 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269660#post269660 Nice one Jarno.

I always struggled to see any beauty in it.

Thanks Chris. It’s the special grime filter. Well, not really. Propped the camera on a parking meter for this one, and on the ground for the other. Improvising.

Still not a patch on [[http://publicaddress.net/assets/upload/252140/-2113138119/1612.jpg|Alex Efimoff’s one from the…

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:03:08 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269654#post269654 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269654#post269654 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:40:19 +1200 Jarno van der Linden https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269647#post269647 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269647#post269647 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:22:25 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269644#post269644 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269644#post269644 1) Second view of train station, with statue. ;-)
2) Boat sheds at night. Found the contrasts a bit much, really.
3) Detail.

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:42:51 +1200 ChrisW https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269643#post269643 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269643#post269643 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:10 +1200 ChrisW https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269642#post269642 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269642#post269642 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 11:47:19 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269639#post269639 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269639#post269639 the splendid Kauri Museum, Matakohe

Awesome place. Do visit, anyone who's up that way. From Welli, maybe.

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 10:42:22 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269636#post269636 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269636#post269636 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 10:35:01 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269635#post269635 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269635#post269635 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:42:10 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269634#post269634 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269634#post269634 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:39:54 +1200 ChrisW https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269632#post269632 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269632#post269632 Who and where is the wooden man?
He's (Professor) WR Mcgregor, who led the campaign to stop the logging of Waipoua State Forest and its establishment as a forest sanctuary instead, finally successful in 1952. His bust carved in kauri at the splendid Kauri Museum, Matakohe in the Kaipara district.…

]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:57:28 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269627#post269627 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269627#post269627 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:24:09 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269624#post269624 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269624#post269624 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:43:14 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269623#post269623 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269623#post269623 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:42:34 +1200 ChrisW https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269610#post269610 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269610#post269610 Wellington? Well, I Would.
Wooden tie.

]]> Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:22:23 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269593#post269593 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269593#post269593 I went hunting for proof of Wellington life in 1989.

But of course it did! It had colour, too! At the time I was living in Petone and in Form 2.

Thanks for the nostalgia trip.

]]> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:01:39 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269587#post269587 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269587#post269587 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:56:58 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269586#post269586 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269586#post269586 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:55:33 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269585#post269585 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269585#post269585 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:53:46 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269584#post269584 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269584#post269584 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:50:33 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269581#post269581 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269581#post269581 Everyone: wonderful pictures. Wellington is my favourite city anywhere. Sometimes (often really) I think about living there again. Please keep posting.

@Jackie: when i left Wellington my friends took over Sit Fischious the ginger cat. They had a weekend house at Paekak, where they would take the two cats each…

]]> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:29:20 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269580#post269580 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269580#post269580 Stairs in the old government building (law school)

Wow.

Jackson – Cuba St hasn't changed much, has it??

]]> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:16:03 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269577#post269577 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269577#post269577 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:38:34 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269575#post269575 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269575#post269575 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:37:38 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269574#post269574 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269574#post269574 Cuba Mall 1989 Series 1.

If you’ll forgive my nostalgic trip, I went hunting for proof of Wellington life in 1989.

]]> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:36:12 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269569#post269569 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269569#post269569 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:44:47 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269567#post269567 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269567#post269567 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:44:14 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269566#post269566 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269566#post269566 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:42:47 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269551#post269551 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269551#post269551 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:15:25 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269548#post269548 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269548#post269548 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:21:24 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269544#post269544 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269544#post269544 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:32:48 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269543#post269543 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269543#post269543 stop me

Why? You don't think this was maybe part of my cunning plan? ;-)

]]> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:27:32 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269540#post269540 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269540#post269540 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:13:08 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269539#post269539 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269539#post269539 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:06:58 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269538#post269538 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269538#post269538 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:04:51 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269537#post269537 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269537#post269537 the wondrous view from the top of the hill looking North, down Paekakariki way.

Wow, Jackie, did you clamber up all that way? Tis indeed an awesome view. :-)

]]> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:32:37 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269536#post269536 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269536#post269536 And here is the wondrous view from the top of the hill looking North, down Paekakariki way.

Great photo Jackie. What a fantastic vantage point.

]]> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:19:31 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269535#post269535 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269535#post269535 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:11:32 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269534#post269534 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269534#post269534 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:10:01 +1200 Paul Williams https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269531#post269531 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269531#post269531 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:26:01 +1200 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269530#post269530 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269530#post269530 The frontman of Guitar Wolf at Bar Bodega last year. He’s drinking our beer, here…

Since moving back to Welly – 10 years now – I’ve lived in Karori, Mornington, Mt Vic, and currently Kelburn.

In the meantime, I’ve been testing out my smartphone’s 5MP camera. Quite convenient for spurs…

]]> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:51:23 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269525#post269525 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269525#post269525 Better now?
Edit: working now.

Amazing fireworks shot Ethan, and thanks for joining in Hilary, and everyone else.

Hard to express how much I enjoy this place sometimes. You all make it pretty wonderful.

(Having a moment- sue me)

]]> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:36:05 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269521#post269521 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269521#post269521 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:26:43 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269520#post269520 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269520#post269520 I used to go to parties up Grass street, surprise surprise!
And skinny dipping outside the beachcomber at midnight!Mmnn...yess; I think I know of what you speak ;-) Vintage fur coats and sand at 3am.

]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:19:12 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269517#post269517 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269517#post269517 Ah, thanks Jac, I was trying to add my Nigel Gnome site as well.
:)
Better now?

Great ending! Lately when we've been there it ends in a wonderful restauarant and a night of debauchery in a hotel. At least that's what remeber....

]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:44:11 +1200 Ethan Tucker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269516#post269516 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269516#post269516 And they end like?

What about this? Admittedly not most nights, and this is Petone rather than Wellington – at the finale of the Winter Carnival a couple of weeks ago.

]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:44:06 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269515#post269515 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269515#post269515 I used to go to parties up Grass street, surprise surprise!
And skinny dipping outside the beachcomber at midnight!

]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:41:32 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269514#post269514 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269514#post269514 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:13:03 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269513#post269513 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269513#post269513 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:02:55 +1200 Ethan Tucker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269512#post269512 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269512#post269512 …on a cold, windy day when rubbish tumbles along the streets, I recall why we left.

But we also have days that start like this.

]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:26:38 +1200 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269510#post269510 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269510#post269510 We lived there until 1992 and it was a less interesting city than it is now--except perhaps for the large woman who used to shed her clothes and walk around Prince of Wales Park which our house bordered. Also the tinny house/brothel next door.
I like visiting as it is…

]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:56:02 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269509#post269509 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269509#post269509 I lived on The Terrace in a road-noisy flat while training as a tv producer-director...it nearly killed me – but produced a couple of good/nasty short stories...
Get up at GAHK! to walk to the station to get the train to Avalon -live in that weird
just-opened place for the…

]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:44:11 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269507#post269507 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269507#post269507 everyone has a Wellington storyI lived for years in (ahem) Grass Street: 10 to 15 mins walk going up from the bay; 3 minutes going down to the bay. It was steep; and beautiful. ]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:28:30 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269491#post269491 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269491#post269491 it's Kilbirnie...

Oh, phew! I thought you were gonna say it was West!

(Glad someone is paying attention – like the Harold, I can't afford online subs) ;-)

]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:57:06 +1200 Tamara https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269490#post269490 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269490#post269490 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:38:47 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269489#post269489 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269489#post269489 Looking East from Kilbernie...
er, ahem, it's Kilbirnie...

]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:29:25 +1200 Louise Hall https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269484#post269484 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269484#post269484 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:28:23 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269483#post269483 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269483#post269483 We used to live in the second house down from the old monastery, on Hawker Street. It was beginning to slip downhill towards the harbour but obviously hasn't got there yet.

Brilliant, Geoff. Seems everyone has a Wellington story. My first flat in Wellington was on Percival Street, off The…

]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:25:15 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269481#post269481 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269481#post269481 Sad really.

Very. Particularly as the first time I went there I struggled with the light, and planned to go back.

]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:14:39 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269480#post269480 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269480#post269480 What was your shop?

If you mean the one I 'worked' in, that's a picture framing & photography shop in Whakatane.

BTW Jos, for some reason on my computer your website link doesn't seem to work. Just me?

]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:14:03 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269477#post269477 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269477#post269477 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:52:40 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269474#post269474 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269474#post269474 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:45:35 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269473#post269473 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269473#post269473 Love them. Love Wellington . I lived there for years — a lot of the time just up the hill from that Oriental Bay picture of the waves. Walked to work most days along the waterfront to Willis St.

Being Welly that will be a hip-apotamus, right?

Where is the…

]]> Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:28:16 +1200 Pete Sime https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269472#post269472 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269472#post269472 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:22:47 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269471#post269471 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269471#post269471 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:32:20 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269470#post269470 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269470#post269470 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:03:33 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269469#post269469 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269469#post269469 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:58:05 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269468#post269468 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269468#post269468 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:55:51 +1200 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269467#post269467 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269467#post269467 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:55:21 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269466#post269466 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269466#post269466 Looking East from Kilbernie. Is that East?

Yes, indeed it is. And in that photo or very slightly to the right (it ends just as Rongotai College begins) is most of my fourth form to seventh form years. Memories like, for example, French classes put on hold while a pre-hush…

]]> Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:54:09 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269465#post269465 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269465#post269465 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:52:04 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269464#post269464 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269464#post269464 Oh you owe me Jac! :)

Indeed Lilith! :)

]]> Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:49:51 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269463#post269463 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269463#post269463 Cheers Jos. Of course the gallery job, like all my early jobs, was on the strength of spending my holidays in your shop breaking glass, and eating chocolate donuts.

Think I might still have that reference somewhere. ;-)

]]> Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:39:48 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269462#post269462 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269462#post269462 best daughter was ensconced there

Is she the famous knitter?

]]> Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:31:37 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269461#post269461 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269461#post269461 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:31:33 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269459#post269459 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269459#post269459 Welly is my fave, ran away from Rotorua when in 1968 to do a Civil Aviation apprenticeship and lived in the Oriental Bay Hostel, loved every minute!

Great set of captures Jac, you have a great eye and a wonderful way with words. It's a good combination!

We went back…

]]> Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:27:05 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269457#post269457 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269457#post269457 Caravan coffee.

Yep. Same place as my pics :-)

Ah, I wasn't sure from the angle. Trying to remember where I saw the other one as I was driving round town afterwards.

]]> Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:13:09 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269456#post269456 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269456#post269456 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:11:16 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269454#post269454 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269454#post269454 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:56:28 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269453#post269453 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269453#post269453 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:56:05 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269451#post269451 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269451#post269451 And where else do you go but to the Sunday market?

There seemed to be a few around town. This one right in front of Te Papa.

]]> Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:52:03 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269450#post269450 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269450#post269450 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:41:43 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269449#post269449 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269449#post269449 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:36:18 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269448#post269448 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269448#post269448 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:34:37 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269445#post269445 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269445#post269445 I love Welly. The last *3* times I’ve tried to go there, stuff has happened to stop me going. But I’m determined to break the jinx soon. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJlR3dBCN90

]]> Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:21:25 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269443#post269443 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269443#post269443 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:11:37 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269442#post269442 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/capture-wellington-well-i-would/?p=269442#post269442 Discussion from blog post.

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