view gallery NW9.3 km | Main Street Gazebo, Inglewood. Taranaki. New Zealand. in Gazebos At the main street junction in Inglewood, a decorative gazebo has been erected to commemorate a Royal coronation. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 04/23/2010 last visited: 06/27/2010 |
view gallery NW9.3 km | Library - Inglewood Community Library in Libraries New Plymouth District Council Inglewood Community Library and Council Service Centre. posted by: Phronimos location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 07/02/2010 last visited: 01/31/2016 |
view gallery NW9.3 km | Inglewood War Memorial Flagpole. Taranaki. New Zealand. in Nautical Flag Poles Beside the Inglewood war memorial stands a nautical flag pole, the flagpole is a memorial to the town’s Second World War casualties. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 04/22/2010 last visited: 06/27/2010 |
view gallery NW9.3 km | Inglewood War Memorial. Taranaki. New Zealand. in World War I Memorials and Monuments The sorrowing soldier stands prominently on the corner of Rata and Matai Street. Erected in 1924, he is Inglewood's proud memorial to the men from the District who fell in the Great War. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 04/23/2010 last visited: 06/27/2010 |
view gallery NW9.3 km | Polish Settlers Immigration Monument. Inglewood. Taranaki. New Zealand. in Human Migration Monuments There was an influx of Polish immigrants in 1876, who came to New Zealand on the ship Fritz Reuter, which landed in Wellington. This plaque is a monument to their contribution to the Inglewood Didtrict. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 05/08/2013 last visited: 01/31/2016 |
view gallery NW9.3 km | Early Polish Settlers Memorial. Inglewood. New Zealand. in Citizen Memorials Tucked away in an Inglewood small street plaza is a splashing fountain dedicated to the early Polish settlers in the Inglewood District. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 03/14/2010 last visited: 01/31/2016 |
view gallery NW9.3 km | Fun Ho National Toy Museum. Inglewood. New Zealand. in Oddball Museums The Fun Ho! Toy Museum is a top visitor attraction, for 'children' young and old. The museum has more than 3000 toys on display. Inglewood is home to the Fun Ho! toys, a real 'kiwiana’ museum. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 07/18/2010 last visited: 01/31/2016 |
view gallery NW10 km | Big Red Truck Mailbox. Inglewood. New Zealand. in Themed Homemade Mailboxes A bright red Truck roars down the main street delivering the mail to a house in Inglewood. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 05/11/2009 last visited: 05/10/2009 |
view gallery NE11.7 km | Cave in the Cliff. near Tarata. Taranaki. New Zealand. in Cave Entrances (Artificial) A man-made cave entrance in the papa cliffs on a high windy road over the hills near Tarata. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 02/14/2011 last visited: 02/14/2011 |
view gallery S12.2 km | Glockenspiel. Stratford. Taranaki. New Zealand. in Musical Instruments The Taranaki town of Stratford has New Zealand’s only glockenspiel clock, which takes pride of place in the town centre. It plays its chiming bell music several times each day. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 05/10/2009 last visited: 01/30/2016 |
view gallery S12.2 km | Shakespeare Bust. Stratford. Taranaki. New Zealand. in William Shakespeare In the Taranaki town of Stratford there is a bronze bust of William Shakespeare standing in the town centre.
Stratford is one of New Zealand’s special places, named after William Shakespeare’s birthplace. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 02/26/2009 last visited: 01/30/2016 |
view gallery S12.2 km | Union Bank Chambers. Inglewood. New Zealand. in Converted Bank Buildings One of the older buildings in the Taranaki town of Stratford was once a Bank in earlier times. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 03/14/2010 last visited: 03/14/2010 |
view gallery S12.4 km | 25 Pounder Gun - Stratford RSA. Taranaki. New Zealand. in Static Artillery Displays This gun stands outside the NZ Returned Servicemens Association building in Stratford, Taranaki. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 05/15/2009 last visited: 05/10/2009 |
view gallery W13.4 km | Waiwhakaiho River bridge, Egmont National Park, New Zealand in Pedestrian Suspension Bridges On the Kaiauai Track between Egmont Road and Henry Peak on the Pouakai Ranges this suspension bridge crosses 30+ m above the Waiwhakaiho River - one of the major rivers flowing off the mountain and uncrossable when swollen. posted by: Phronimos location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 11/24/2010 last visited: 11/22/2010 |
view gallery S13.5 km | Stratford Village Sign. Taranaki. New Zealand. in Pictorial Village Signs A pictorial sign on the southern approach to the village of Stratford, one of several small villages around the base of Mt Taranaki. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 11/17/2010 last visited: 11/17/2010 |
view gallery W13.8 km | North Egmont Visitor and DOC Centre. Mt Taranaki. New Zealand. in Ranger Stations The North Egmont Visitor Centre, almost 1000 metres up Mt Taranaki, has informative displays and a 20 minute audio-visual. Interpretive talks and walks with DOC staff can be arranged for school and special interest groups. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 09/29/2009 last visited: 11/10/2016 |
view gallery W13.8 km | Egmont National Park. Taranaki. New Zealand. in National Parks of the World Egmont National Park is an area of unique rainforests and alpine scenery surrounding the volcanic cone-shaped Mt Taranaki. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 02/14/2013 last visited: 11/10/2016 |
view gallery W14 km | OLDEST- - Corrugated iron in the world. The Camphouse. New Zealand. in Superlatives North Egmont Camphouse, originally a pre-fabricated military barracks building arriving in NZ in 1855, is clad with handmade corrugated iron, reputed to be the oldest corrugated iron in the world.
posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 09/22/2009 last visited: 11/23/1974 |
view gallery W14 km | OLDEST - - Building in a New Zealand National Park. Taranaki. NZ. in Superlatives A pre-fabricated iron building, originally built as military barracks, now stands almost 1000 metres up Mt Taranaki and is used as a mountain accommodation hut in the Egmont National Park. It is the oldest building in a New Zealand National Park. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 09/22/2009 last visited: 10/25/2009 |
view gallery W14 km | Ambury Obelisk. - North Egmont. Mt Taranaki. New Zealand. in Obelisks The Ambury Memorial Obelisk is seen beside the Track above the Camphouse at North Egmont. It bears two names: Arthur Hamilton Ambury, aged thirty-seven, and William Edwin Gourlay, aged twenty. A strange fate brought them together in death. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 09/22/2009 last visited: 03/13/2021 |
view gallery W14 km | Arthur Hamilton Ambury - Mt Taranaki. New Zealand. in Citizen Memorials A stone Memorial is seen beside the Track above the Camphouse at North Egmont. It honors Arthur Hamilton Ambury, aged thirty-seven, who lost his life attempting to save another climber. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 03/07/2010 last visited: 03/13/2021 |
view gallery W14 km | Possibly the oldest Quonset in the world in Quonset Huts Pre-fabricated in Melbourne, Australia in 1855, the pieces were transported to New Plymouth's Marsland Hill to be reconstructed as military barracks for the British Regiments fighting in the Taranaki Land Wars 1856 to 1865 posted by: Phronimos location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 06/06/2010 last visited: 09/13/2009 |
view gallery NW15.4 km | Lake Mangamahoe Forest Mountain Biking Area. Taranaki. New Zealand. in Mountain Bike Trailheads The New Plymouth Mountain Bikers Club have developed an excellent recreational area of MTB tracks in the Lake Mangamahoe Forest off Plantation Road. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 08/13/2010 last visited: 08/11/2010 |
view gallery SW15.4 km | Waingongoro River bridge in Pedestrian Suspension Bridges At 30 metres above the Waingongoro River, this 26.5 m long Suspension Bridge is the highest in Egmont National Park. posted by: Phronimos location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 06/18/2010 last visited: 01/31/2009 |
view gallery SW15.9 km | Hongi's Valley, Mt Taranaki summit route, New Zealand in Outdoor Stairways Over a thousand steps climb 250 metres vertically over a distance of 600 metres up through 'Hongi's' valley on the summit route from North Egmont to the summit of Mount Taranaki. posted by: Phronimos location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 09/12/2010 last visited: 02/07/2009 |
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