Looking east from Morton Street along Baker Street
1928 (James Richardson) - 2024
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1928 image: James D Richardson | Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections
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This neighborhood on the western slopes of the Hobson Street ridge running down from Nelson Street to Freemans Bay no longer exists. In its place is the sprawling Auckland City Council Works Depot constructed in the 1960s (itself now defunct and repurposed, much of it a carpark). So thoroughgoing was the obliteration of the streets and houses here that even the topography of the land was modified, with the natural slope being replaced by retaining walls and terraces.
