Welcome to the Neighbourhood
Herne Bay & Ponsonby
Famously among Tāmaki Makaurau’s trendiest and most sought-after suburbs, Ponsonby was also just as famously one of the city’s early slums
History Revisited in Melbourne
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In 1880 a visitor to the Melbourne International Exhibition described the view of the newly constructed Exhibition Building: “At one’s feet lies the city, with its well-planned and equally well-executed streets, its commendable buildings, its domes, its churches and its towers. Then the suburbs, green almost as the country beyond and the waters of Port Phillip.”