Early North Shore Photographs - on sale at Browns Bay Market

Below -Robert Harris Coffee Shop, Clyde Court. 19?? Now White Flower Cafe. #EF0619: Below - Universal Store, Tea Rooms and Library. 1950's. #T7643: Below - Wilkinson's Central Store, Clyde Road. 1938. #EF0637: Below - Briscoes, Bute Road. 1989. Became Dress For Less, now Bacchus Apartments. #EF0470: Below - The first Post Office in Browns Bay. Corner of Clyde and Anzac Roads. 1920's. #EF0716. The building was originally the Brown family's bunkhouse. Miss Elizabeth Brown was the first Postmistress. (see also North Shore Times article 27/3/73, pg 19): Below - Brown and Taunt Real Estate, Clyde Road, by Taiaotea Stream. 19?? Now an empty building, was a language school. #EF0505:

 Below - delivery cars for Dial-A Dino's Pizza outside Shoe City, Clyde Mall. 19?? Shoe City is now  Flaming Onion Burger. #Ef0586: Below - Camp Stores at the motor camp corner of Clyde and Anzac. 19?? This site is now Countdown Supermarket. #Ef0460: Below - Petrol station and garage on Clyde Road. 19?? #EF0462: Below - East Coast Bays Marine and Motorcycles. 752 Beach Road. 1975. #EF0478 Sirrom Studios: Below - The Beach Store, Bayview Road. 19?? #EO418: Below - MacDonalds Private Hotel and Tea Rooms. 1924. #EF0090:

Some photographs of shops in Browns Bay:  Below -The opening of McDonalds - with horse and cart. 1981. #5002-0017 (Martha Broomfield). Evidently this was the first McDonalds in the world to close down! Below - Shops on Clyde Road: Danish Delight, Book Nook, Unerground Fashions, and a footwear store which is closing down. 1960's. E0569: Below - William Aitkin beside early mail and passenger  bus in front of the A W Aitkin store on the beachfront (opposite the present Police Station). 1922. #E0304: Below - "Dial-A Dino's Pizza" Clyde Mall. 19??. #EF0587: Below - 99 Clyde Road. Keanings, Sirrom photographic Studio, ?retail?, a barber. 1970's. Was 555 Theatre and Cabaret, then an auctioneers. #EF0443 Below - 555 Theatre and Cabaret. 1938/9/ #EF0633:  

 Below are some early photographs of Torbay/Waiake. Below - two women in a rowing boat, Deep Creek 1020's? #1784-281: Below - Construction of the Deep Creek Road Bridge 1960. L to R - Bill Esprin; Rhonda, Christine, David, and Pauline Thomas. # EF0699: Below - Butcher shop and library at the intersection of Beach Road and Deep Creek Road. Mr Lopes (?) the butcher, Mrs Lopes was librarian. 1950's. # 5003-0053 (Bill Ellis): Below - The old boat shed. 1996. #5003-0054 (Bill Ellis): Below - Roadworks in front of Deep Creek School 76 Deep Creek Road. 1995. #EF0151:  Below - Boat on Deep Creek with children. 1910. #EF0421: Below - Allenby Stanton by waterfall on Deep Creek. 1920's. #EF0808:

The first European owner of land at Browns Bay was John Logan Campbell who, in 1864, received a deed for allotment # 189 in the Parish of Takapuna for "his good services to the colony " - signed by Sir George Grey. This allotment included the land from the south end of Browns Bay north to Okura. Campbell believed there was coal in the area, but exploratory mineshafts dug into the cliff faces above the high tide level between Browns Bay and Waieke were unrewarding, so he had the land subdivided for farming. A Mrs Hammond was the first owner of the 136 acre block including the beach and flat land of what became Browns Bay. She built a small house but sold to Mr Peter Brown in 1876. Peter and Mary Brown with their children were living in Auckland, and on September 26 1876 the family with furniture and wagon sailed in a cutter to Browns Bay while Mr Brown rode on horseback via Devonport. The cutter was unloaded and the horse and wagon used to get the family's belongings to w

The series of images below show the development of Browns Bay from 1953 to 1984: Below - Browns Bay 1953 WA-32323:  Below - Browns Bay in 1954 WA-34427-F:  Below - Browns Bay in 1963  WA-58948-G1963:  Below - Browns Bay in 1973  WA-71330-G19:  Below - Browns Bay in 1984 WA-77466-F: Framed copies of these and other images of the North Shore are available at my Sunday stall at the Browns Bay Market - on the corner near the coffee cart....from $12.