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Browns Bay was the home of the East Coast Bays Borough. In the early 1970s, the East Coast Bays council buildings were constructed, and in 1975 the borough became East Coast Bays City. [29] In the early 1990s, Browns Bay Mall was opened, and the soap opera Shortland Street began filming in the suburb from 1992. [29]
[5] [2] Other areas occasionally referred to as East Auckland include Saint Heliers, [7] [8] Ellerslie, [9] [10] Mission Bay, [11] [12] Mount Wellington [13] [14] and Remuera. [15] [16] The first references to East Auckland come from the 1970s, referring to Glen Innes. [17] [18] The term East Auckland for areas near Howick entered popular use ...
Remuera was known as the garden suburb. Remuera was popular with the bourgeoisie as it provided much larger sections than other parts of Auckland. Many grand homes were built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By the 1960s smaller sections started being developed. [14] View from Ōhinerau / Mount Hobson across Remuera to Hobson Bay
Motukorea or Browns Island is a small New Zealand island, in the Hauraki Gulf north of Musick Point, one of the best preserved volcanoes in the Auckland volcanic field. The age of eruption is about 25,000 years ago, when the Tāmaki Estuary and the Waitemata Harbour were forested river valleys. [ 1 ]
In 1879 Glen Orchard became Auckland’s first stud farm, managed by Major Walmsley, [14] who suggested the name St Heliers Bay, supposedly because it reminded him of the fashionable holiday resort Bay of Saint Helier in Jersey, one of Britain’s Channel Islands. In the mid-1880s the homestead became the centre piece of a planned model seaside ...
Browns Bay or Brown's Bay may refer to Browns Bay (South Orkney Islands), Antarctica; Browns Bay, New Zealand; Browns Bay, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
A tunnel was constructed underneath Remuera Road, in order to drain the lake into the Ōrākei Basin, which was completed by 1929. [3] [2] The tunnel led to the lake disappearing, and filled the Ōrākei Basin with considerable amounts of silt. [1] In 1934, the Remuera Golf Club was established on leased land to the east of the site of the ...
The East Coast Bays Barracudas is a rugby league club based in Browns Bay, New Zealand. Currently, they compete in the Sharman Cup, [ 1 ] the second division in Auckland Rugby League . Coached by Ken McIntosh and managed by Cameron Dick, the "Cudas" are currently based at Freyberg Park.