Wednesday, 3 June 2020

TEMPUS FUGIT

A pictorial translation for those from the G classes



Robert, that chronologically and reality challenged blogger from Moera asked recently, in a comment on his own post, what I thought of the roads back in 1905.



Now I know that I'm older than Richard (by 12 days), that ancient blogger from Wainuiomarsland but, 1905 - really!

By coincidence, today someone posted an old 1934 photograph of Whangarei Heads Road, taken from just around the corner from where I live.




Mount Manaia, Whangarei Heads, 1934 NZ Herald image.

1370-655-03, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries 


I took a photograph of roughly the same spot (2020).



6 comments:

Richard (of RBB) said...

Come on, that's a different hill!

THE CURMUDGEON said...

Same old feature but from a different century. Something you get told all the time I guess.

Richard (of RBB) said...

That picture could have been the bloody Wainui hill!

THE CURMUDGEON said...

No, it isn't ring-fenced with razor wire to keep the residents in.

Richard (of RBB) said...

Funny guy! ...who takes pictures of the wrong hill.

THE CURMUDGEON said...

This from a joker who can't tell the difference between Wellington and NYC.

http://richardsbassbag.blogspot.com/2020/03/back-from-long-trip-to-wellington.html