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village with a view<br />
Drop into, Art of Gifts, Ashore<br />
Fine Foods & Wine, Casual<br />
Foodie, Cake Bitz and Chocolate,<br />
Crave, Design Bind, Elements,<br />
Simply Wonderful Fashion,<br />
Wallace Cotton, Yarntons -<br />
and don’t miss our very own<br />
Candlestick-maker Golden<br />
Glow in Enterprise Street!<br />
Off Onewa Rd or Hinemoa you<br />
will fi nd Le Roy’s Bush - see<br />
Tuis, Kereru & Fantails, and tall<br />
Kauri and Totara trees<br />
A stones throw away at Hinemoa<br />
Street you’ll fi nd local living<br />
treasure - Reuben Price a world<br />
class NZ Photographer.<br />
Walk the original sugar workers<br />
route (30 mins) – down Huka<br />
Road into the Chelsea Sugar<br />
Heritage Estate Park with its sugar<br />
cube sculpture and Chelsea Clay<br />
Cottages built for the workers<br />
in 1910. Walk past walk past<br />
NZ’s only sugar factory and up<br />
into the native bush - leading<br />
3.<br />
100’s of<br />
years old!<br />
select<br />
local!<br />
5.<br />
4.<br />
you to Rawene Road and<br />
Highbury Corner with its<br />
Art Deco buildings<br />
Head back by local bus or walk<br />
2 km down Hinemoa St to our<br />
oldest wharf. It’s just 4 kms back<br />
to downtown Auckland across the<br />
Waitemata - the fi rst great trading<br />
channel of the early Maori and<br />
European settlers.<br />
1920-1950.<br />
Getting There<br />
Pick up a $15 daily Discovery<br />
Pass (includes bus, ferry or<br />
train) from Queens Wharf,<br />
Fullers or Britomart or driver.<br />
Catch the cream and black<br />
Birkenhead Bus 973 or 974<br />
opposite Sky Tower. Departs<br />
bus stop 7097 every 20 mins<br />
9am – 6pm M-F & 40 mins in<br />
the weekend.<br />
More info?<br />
Head for architecturally award<br />
winning Birkenhead Library<br />
for best views on shore and 2<br />
more info Open Mon-Sun 9am -<br />
map<br />
4pm. Free parking.<br />
www.birkenhead.net.nz refer<br />
Photos: 1. View of city from highest point,<br />
2. Library - Nell Fisher Reserve, 3. Chelsea clay<br />
cottages, 4. Oldest St - Hinemoa St 5. Le Roys Bush.<br />
Photographer Grant Chapman<br />
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