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Remuera is an affluent suburb in Auckland, New Zealand. It is located four kilometres southeast of the city centre. Remuera is characterised by many large houses, often Edwardian or mid 20th century. A prime example of a "leafy" suburb, Remuera is noted for its quiet tree-lined streets.
Remuera railway station is a station serving the suburb of Remuera in Auckland, New Zealand.It is served by the Southern Line and the Onehunga Line (off-peak only), and consists of an island platform which is accessed by a ramp from the Market Road SH1 motorway overbridge.
At that time St Heliers was usually reached by boat, the trip from Auckland taking only 30 minutes, whereas the 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) land route via Newmarket, Remuera and Meadowbank was usually much more onerous. During this period St Heliers was a centre for local farmers and the location of the villas of a few rich business people.
Located in the Remuera suburb, to the east of the Newmarket commercial suburb, it has been extensively modified by human use, first by Māori for use as a pā and later by use as quarry and pasture land before finally having a water reservoir installed in its cone to supply the surrounding area. An additional, partially buried, water reservoir ...
The Villages, in Sumter County, Florida- Florida's most well-known and fastest-growing retirement community development [33] [34] is the state's "biggest example of a culturally and ethnically homogeneous retirement community" [32] with a 98.4% white population. [35]
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 ...
In 1915, a branch library was established for Remuera. It was originally located in the brick shops located at 411–413 Remuera Road. The building had previously belonged to the Remuera Road Board, which amalgamated with the Auckland City Council in the same year. In 1926, parts of this building were taken to Point Chevalier and used to ...
The village was created as a way to protect the township of Auckland, and was settled by retired British soldiers of the Royal New Zealand Fencible Corps. [54] Grey also asked Pōtatau Te Wherowhero (then known as a powerful chief and negotiator, but later the first Māori King ) to settle at Māngere Bridge as a second defensive site, which ...