Local History Stories

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  • Wellington’s Café Culture: the Visual Guide

    “Coffee’s done more for cities in the past 25 years than architecture’s done in the past 150.” (Sir Ian Athfield, 1940 – 2015)
  • New Zealand Railways and the Remutaka Deviation

    Photographs from the New Zealand Railways Department capture the modernisation of train routes in the Wellington region, with a focus on the Upper Hutt to Wairarapa connection.
  • Bringing History Into 2024: A Recap

    This year our heritage team have digitised and uploaded over 1500 unique items to our platform Wellington City Recollect, including posters, photographs, books, documents, maps and more!
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