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Refurbishment of the Remuera Railway Station March 2026

AT is working with Salmond Reed, heritage architects, and Heritage New Zealand to ensure that the exterior improvements meet heritage standards. Here are photos from 25 March 2026.

April event – the Remuera Railway Station exterior is being restored!

Come and hear Dr Phillip Hartley from Salmond Reed talk about the project with Auckland Transport to restore the exterior of the Remuera Railway Station and the Signal Box.

Robyn Bridgman QSM Obituary

Robyn Bridgman gave a talk to Remuera Heritage in 2023 about growing up in Remuera. She grew up in Burwood Crescent during the early days of the 2nd World War and attended Remuera Primary School.

Sarah Padey, Archivist at St Cuthbert’s College in Epsom, guided Remuera Heritage members on a heritage tour of the school buildings and grounds. Principal Charlotte Avery welcomed us and spoke about the history of the buildings.

Auckland Heritage Counts 2025

This edition features a poster of key statistics, new research on the adaptive reuse of heritage churches, and insights into international heritage management frameworks. Dr David Bade, Specialist – Heritage, Auckland Council

St Cuthbert’s Heritage Walk

Join Sarah Padey, Archivist at St Cuthbert’s College, for a heritage tour of the buildings and grounds, with afternoon tea afterwards. WHEN: Monday 23rd February 2026 from 2pm to 4pm (arrive at 1.45pm).

Remuera Railway Station and Signal Box restoration project 2025-2026

The scope of the restoration project is to strengthen and weatherproof the exterior of the signal box and station building,

Progress on track – the 2011 electrification of Remuera Railway Station

Edward Rooney reports on the optimistic future for Auckland's rail commuters - at Remuera Railway Station 2011

Plan Change 120 information session

The Meadowbank & St Johns Residents Association (MBSJRA) is hosting a timely information session regarding Plan Change 120 (PC120), focused on Auckland's future housing plan.

Templates for submissions on Plan Change 120 on housing intensification

Auckland Council has now publicly notified Plan Change 120. You can see the proposal, and the maps showing the proposed new zonings, on the Council website.

Next Thursday there will be a presentation about Auckland Council’s intensification plan change 120

Next Thursday, 20th November, 6pm–7.30pm, at Remuera Library there will be a presentation about Auckland Council’s intensification plan change (Plan Change 120), and an opportunity to ask questions about the process and how to make submissions.

39 Manawa Road (Remuera’s Century-Old Homes Project)

First built around 1860, the multi-gabled cottage at 39 Manawa Road is one of only a small number of mid-nineteenth century dwellings surviving in Remuera. Although extended over time, the place is a tangible reminder of the suburb’s early settlement, social history, and way of life. It even has links with one of Remuera’s earliest schools.

2025 Christmas Party time – save the date!

Let's celebrate another great year for Remuera Heritage with a Xmas BBQ

‘Orakei Bay Village’, 228 Orakei Road

Located between the Orakei Basin and Hobson Bay, ‘Orakei Bay Village’ occupies a mid-century building with an interesting history. Purpose-built as a factory for manufacturing and distributing radios in 1954, the building subsequently had a decades-long association with New Zealand’s liquour industry. Now a popular boutique shopping precinct, the substantial concrete, steel, and glazed structure still retains evidence of its industrial past.

Remuera’s Hungarian restaurant – Café de Budapest

Underneath Hutchison’s Arcade on Remuera Road, at number 351, was a Hungarian restaurant, Café de Budapest.

Always a tram in sight!

James is the Tramway Project Manager at the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT), as well as a volunteer tram driver. His talk covered the growth of trams in Auckland and their decline in the 1950s due to competition from buses.

Railway Enthusiasts visit the Remuera Railway Station

Remuera Heritage welcomed the Railway Enthusiasts' Society to the Remuera Railway Station during the Auckland Heritage Festival 2025.

5 Pere Street has won a NZ Master Painters award for a character house

5 Pere Street has won a NZ Master Painters award for the exterior painting of a character house by master painter PBF Ltd.

Remuera Library is to open late on Thursdays from 2nd of October 2025

Auckland intensification plan gets a reprieve

Auckland Council granted concession by Chris Bishop on housing intensification plans

Public meetings about proposed zoning changes in Remuera September 2025

There are three important public meetings in Remuera and St Heliers next week about the proposed upzoning, downzoning and removal of special character area overlays in Remuera.

AUCKLAND’S HOUSING PLAN NEEDS A REALITY CHECK

Opinion piece by Councillor Christine Fletcher and Troy Churton, Orakei Local Board member, on Auckland Council's Replacement Plan Change for Plan Change 78

Painter of Paradise

Martin Law spoke about his heritage restoration work and paintings of heritage villas and buildings.

Plan Change 78 on housing intensification – update

The Hon. Chris Bishop has published the “Going for Housing Growth Proposal: Providing for Urban Development in the New Resource Management System” as a discussion paper in June 2025. How will this affect Remuera? Submissions are required by 17 August 2025.

Remuera Sports Quiz at the Auckland Heritage Festival 2025

The theme this year for the Auckland Heritage Festival is Auckland at Play: a celebration of sport and play! In 2011, Remuera Heritage presented a quiz on key Remuera sportspeople. Now we've updated and expanded it!

Always a Tram in Sight!

James Duncan, Tramway Project Manager at MOTAT, will tell the story behind Auckland’s much loved electric trams. Friday 17th October.

Johnnie’s Dancing School

Johnnie’s Dancing School, also known as Johnny’s, was a Remuera social institution from the 1920s through to the 1950s.

Martin Law – Painter of Paradise and Heritage Restoration

Come and hear Martin Law speak about his heritage restoration work and paintings of heritage villas and buildings.

Greener pastures at the Remuera Bowling Club

The Remuera Bowling Club (RBC), was formed in 1895, and the land purchased for the club in the same year.

Remuera women who signed the Women’s Suffrage Petition of 1893

In 1893, New Zealand became the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote in national elections. Approx. 70 Remuera women signed the Women’s Suffrage Petition.

The Remuera Story

The Remuera Story is a StoryMap created using a digital online application to tell the story of our heritage and history.

Remuera Heritage Annual Report to 31 March 2025

FREE membership for young people under the age of 30 years!

Demolition of 367 Remuera Road – the L J Keys building

Remuera heritage walks with downloadable maps

REMUERA HERITAGE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2025

The Annual General Meeting will be held on Friday 13th June 2025 at the Remuera Library at 6.30pm. Speakers will include Troy Churton of the Orakei Local Board and Sally Hughes, Chair of the Character Coalition.

Successful daffodil bulb planting day on Ohinerau Mt Hobson

Community bulb planting on Ōhinerau Mt Hobson Saturday 3rd May 2025 from 9.30am

Fabulous members’ tour of the trams at Museum of Technology and Transport (MOTAT)

Ohinerau Mt Hobson war memorials

In 1948 members of the Remuera and Meadowbank Garden Club began gathering daffodil bulbs for a mass planting on Ōhinerau in memory of the boys from Remuera who played on the mountain maunga and lost their lives in World War I and II.

May 2nd 2025 Event – the restoration of the Remuera Library

SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING FOR REMUERA HERITAGE INC Friday April 4th 2025

Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Tram Tour for Remuera Heritage – Saturday 29th March 2025. RSVP now!

Art Auction & Market Day Picnic at Kinder House

Happy Holidays and Best wishes for 2025

Remuera Tram 44 at MOTAT is adopted!

A.G.M. Holms 1911-2011

Archie Grant Melville (AGM) Holms was principal of Victoria Avenue School from 1966 to 1969.

Remuera Heritage Christmas Party 2024-RSVPs are now closed

Vandalism of the Remuera Railway Station

Walking back to happiness – book available and how to write your own memoir

Heritage Counts! Auckland Council’s latest annual survey 2024

In Memoriam: Beverley Newton 1925-2024

Do we value heritage in this country? Listen to Sally Hughes of the Character Coalition answer this

Want to learn how to leave a valued legacy?

Orakei Gin Distillery

Where Orakei Bay Village is now, situated next to the railway line and Orakei Station, there used to be a gin distillery owned by the New Zealand Distillery Company. It occupied the space where Ampersand café and restaurant and Farro Fresh are now located.

Auckland Heritage Festival 2024

Remuera Heritage event with Jeanette de Heer on Thursday October 10th 2024

20 Orakei Rd (Remuera’s Century-Old Homes Project)

The striking Arts and Crafts-inspired residence known as ‘Te Roti’ has a long and interesting history. Built for the well-known Winstone family in 1897, it is one of only a few surviving examples of the work of the important, yet short-lived, architectural practice of Fripp and Goldsbro’. During the twentieth century, the place continued to have associations with individuals who made significant contributions to Auckland’s history, including a noted businessman, prominent medical practitioners, and a highly-regarded historian. It even has links to a popular 1980s TV show!

A famous WW1 poem and its connection to Remuera

The Soldier by Rupert Brooke was noted for its words, If I should die, think only this of me: that there’s some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

Dr David Morris – growing up in Remuera in the 1940s and 50s.

We were twins, Richard and I, born on the day Singapore fell, 15 February 1942, often told this and as a reminder that the Japs were coming. Who were the Japs we never knew but we were told this to explain why there was a deep trench dug in the garden near the front hedge of our place.

Remuera Memories event on Thursday 15 August 2024

Do you have information on the Auckland Young Ladies Orchestra 1888-1899?

28 Ranui Road – demolition by neglect

2nd Edition published and now available for purchase – The Great Māori Feast at Remuera, 1844

Ten biggest mistakes in the history of transport in Auckland

Remuera trams

In February 1886, horse-drawn trams were operating between Auckland and Temperance Terrace (now St Vincent Avenue) off Remuera Road, running from Queen Street via Wellesley Street East, Symonds Street, Khyber Pass Road, and Manukau Road to Newmarket.

A call for Remuera short stories and memories 2024

The Great Feast at St Kentigern’s

Annual General Meeting 2024 of Remuera Heritage

How to get graffiti on Remuera houses and properties removed

On June 14th Boris Bogdanovic of Heritage New Zealand will talk about his career as a Historic Architecture & Cultural Heritage Specialist.

War Memorials and Plaques at St Aidan’s Church

As Anzac Day 2019 approaches, readers might be interested in the effect which two global conflicts had on the fabric and grounds of St Aidan’s, including the war memorial cross

History of Waitaramoa – past and present

Waitaramoa was the original Māori name of the land around Hobson Bay from Taurarua / Point Resolution to the Orakei Basin. This includes Hobson Bay, Shore Road, Shore Road Reserve, Thomas Bloodworth Park, the Remuera or Ōhinerau or Portland Stream and Waitaramoa Reserve and Portland Reserve in Remuera.

Norman Berridge Spencer 1891-1968

Norman Berridge Spencer was a noted businessman, entrepreneur, philanthropist and Freemason

REMUERA HERITAGE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2024

The AGM will be held on Friday 17th May 2024. The Chair will present the Annual Report, the Treasurer the Financial Report and the election of officers will be held.

History of Waitaramoa – past and present

Remuera Heritage’s next event will be on the history of Waitaramoa, which was the original Māori name of the point of land jutting into Hobson Bay.

The Village Green (formerly the Stables), 415 Remuera Road, Remuera

History and conclusion regarding the origins of the Village Green (formerly the Stables)

Visit to the Auckland Freemasons Centre Museum and Library – Wednesday 13th March 2024

‘Oaklands’ / ‘Cotter House’, 2 St Vincent Avenue (Remuera’s Century-Old Homes Project)

The striking Victorian residence once known as Oaklands and later Cotter House, stands as a valuable remnant of Remuera’s early agricultural, social and residential history.

An Exceptional Renovation by KiwiRail of The Strand Train Station 66 The Strand, Parnell, Auckland

Congratulation to KiwiRail on the excellent restoration and renovation of the station and signal box buildings at 66 The Strand, Parnell.

One hundred years of flooding and landslides on Shore Road in Remuera

The storm that struck Auckland city on Anniversary Weekend 27 January 2023 broke all previous rainfall records with flooding and landslides causing widespread damage. It was not the first time that landslides had occurred on Shore Road.

Give the gift of two heritage booklets on Remuera this Christmas

Do you have any copies of the Auckland Waikato Historical Journal?

Postcards of Kings College in 1910-14

‘The Tower’, 258 Remuera Road (Remuera’s Century-Old Buildings Project)

The substantial timber building long-known as ‘The Tower’ is a valuable remnant of Remuera’s residential, social and educational history.

Remuera Heritage Christmas Party at Cotter House Sunday 26th November 2023

Let Auckland Decide!

* Stop the current blanket intensification plans * Restore Auckland Council’s planning powers * Direct Kāinga Ora to stop meddling in Auckland planning and get on with building homes on land it owns

Remuera Heritage Walks for Auckland Heritage Festival – come to a talk Sunday 1st October 2023 at 4pm

Remuera Heritage has created three heritage walks aimed at teaching children and their whanau about their neighbourhood. The walks encourage locals to look at the many beautiful heritage homes, gardens, trees, shops, churches and maunga of this historic suburb.

Growing up in Remuera

Robyn Bridgman grew up in Burwood Crescent during the early days of the 2nd World War and went to Remuera Primary School.

Remuera Short Stories

The August 2023 event featured four of Remuera Heritage’s members talking about special objects and collectables and memories of life in Remuera

New digital exhibition on Jean Batten, NZ’s greatest aviator

New digital exhibition on Jean Batten, New Zealand’s greatest aviator, by Remuera Heritage

State housing in Remuera

Remuera has many excellent examples of State Houses built from the late 1930s when Labour governed for the first time and were determined to provide quality rental housing to returned servicemen and the working poor.

Visit to Te Roti on Sunday 17th September 2023

Come and join us for a visit to Te Roti, the former Winstone Macdonald house at 20 Orakei Road. Built in the early 1900s in the Arts and Craft style, it has been adapted for modern living while retaining key heritage features.

Re-opening of St Heliers Library

“After a year of works this gorgeous heritage library has been lovingly restored. Heritage done well means you can almost not see the changes. As a result of Auckland Council investment our beautiful St Heliers library is future proofed for many generations to come."

Shooting at Lake St John – Sarah Bernhardt In Remuera

In the late 19th century, Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) was the most famous actress in the world. In 1891 she sailed from San Francisco via Honolulu and Auckland to Australia. Her stay in Auckland was brief but memorable.

Claude Megson’s Remuera Townhouses

Claude Megson (1936–94) was a brilliant, if controversial, architect and teacher, who built five single-family houses and three townhouses in Remuera during the 1960s and 1970s.

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