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Takapuna
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North Shore City heritage trails
Devonport
Stanley Walk
Bay Walk
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A.R.D. (REX) FAIRBURN (1904-1957) 1 of air and sunlight, frost and wave and cloud,
Poet, polemicist, satirist and critic and all the remembered agony and joy
fashion my shroud.
Fairburn lived here from 1946 To a Friend in the Wilderness, A.R.D. Fairburn
View of Rangitoto,
Devonport library collection.
MICHELE LEGGOTT (1956- ) 5 KEVIN IRELAND (1933- ) 6
Poet, critic and editor Poet, novelist and short story writer
For privacy reasons Leggott’s house is not listed in Ireland (also 44 Takapuna Walk), born Kevin
this walk. However, she has lived in Devonport since Jowsey, moved to Narrow Neck from Mt Albert in
1985, when she took up a lectureship in the English 1938. The family later moved to Takapuna, and for
Department of the University of Auckland. The a time the young Kevin was Frank Sargeson’s
following lines are from her sequence ‘Hesperides’, paperboy. He moved into the army hut behind
in her book As far as I can see.‘Haukapua’ is the Maori Sargeson’s house after Janet Frame moved out, and
name for Torpedo Bay, a popular swimming beach in there began writing
Devonport. poetry. From 1959
he lived in London
dolce for 25 years before
oranges seem to grow wild in the bay that is cloud returning to the
Shore to live, first
carried by the wind there my boys swim out in Anne St, then
of the easterly blow Haukapa they shout Domain St, both
in Devonport.
ungentle the wind rides overhead as they trail back a beach curved at the end like a hook
for showers by the open window a towel on
wishing to catch poems he could salt
the pillow and peg out on a line in the wind
Hesperides from As far as I can see, to dry like dally fish
Michele Leggott
Leggott’s poetry was first but all he brought in that day was: Rangitoto
published in literary
rises like an upper lip…its teeth sink
periodicals in 1980. Her
poetry collections include into the sea’s rim…it gnashes the sun-scaled
Like This? (1988), winner waves
of the PEN Best First Book
of Poetry Award, Swimmers,
Dancers (1991), DIA (1994), images he keeps for good luck in his exile:
winner of the New Zealand
little nets of words to hold a moment and a view
Book Award for Poetry and
As far as I can see (1999), in as he grows older and closer to his past
which she writes about her The Literary Exile from Anzac Day,
deep sorrow at losing her sight. Leggott was awarded a Blind
Achievers Award by the Foundation for the Blind in 1999. Kevin Ireland
Ireland’s poetry collections include Practice Night at the Drill Hall
(1984), Skinning a Fish (1994), Anzac Day (1997) and Fourteen STANLEY BAY WALK
Reasons for Writing (2001). North Shore settings are important to
his novels Blowing My Top (1996), The Man Who Never Lived
Terrain: Fairly level with descending steps on
(1997) and several stories in Sleeping with the Angels (1995). His
memoir Under the Bridge & Over the Moon (1998) won the 1999 Spring Street.
Montana New Zealand Book Award for History and Biography.
Backwards to Forwards (2002) is the second volume of his memoirs.
Duration: Minimum of one hour.
Turn left into Vauxhall Rd and continue towards the sea, Parking: Available in front of the supermarket in
to 3/17a Church St. Bartley Tce. A steep path leads up to Calliope Rd
from the intersection of Bartley Tce and Fleet St,
near the north-western corner of the car park.
NOEL VIRTUE (1947- ) 7
NB: This walk is linked to, and marked on, the
Novelist Devonport Walk map.
Virtue has lived on the Shore since 1988, first in Walk up Victoria Rd, turn
Ngataringa Rd and now in Church St. He also has left into Calliope Rd.
childhood memories of visits to the Shore from his Continue along, turn right
homes in Wellington and Morrinsville, and remarks into Kiwi Rd and left
on its village atmosphere. There he can enjoy, as he into Rutland Rd. Jack
succinctly puts it, ‘isolation without being isolated’. Lasenby lived at 27a
(Rotheram House) for
She [Martha] sat on a bench at the harbour’s
playground’, which was grassed, presumably for and when people are not present there are
Stanley Bay Park, 1934.
football. In summer, we used to walk in a long always the sea birds conducting their elaborate
crocodile to Stanley Bay beach for swimming rituals of flight and feeding, dancing on the wet
once a week. sand with fragile feet to leave marks like those
There Was a Time, Dorothy Butler of an arcane language. You are welcome here.
This is a beautiful place. The rocks, the foam,
Butler has written numerous
children’s books, including Babies the shore are your friends. It is not a lonely
Need Books (1980), a leading text in place and you are not lonely. You are alone,
the field of early childhood reading.
She has received several awards for
that is all, not lonely.
her work, including the Margaret The Lonely Margins of the Sea, Shonagh Koea
Mahy Lecture Award (1993).
Koea also wrote Sing To Me, Dreamer (1994), The Wedding at
After 61 Calliope Rd (Barbara Bueno-Vista (1996), Time for a Killing (2001) and Yet Another
Ghastly Christmas (2002).
Anderson’s house 1961-64)
opposite Kiwi Rd, continue a
little way along. Between 43 Turn left into Queens Parade, past the naval museum.
and 45 is a pedestrian footpath
leading to Spring St.
Near the corner, in the two-storey house at 2 Huia St harbour. On summer nights, when my brother
lived… and I slept on the back balcony, we could hear
the waves breaking on the beach and see ships
HECTOR BOLITHO (1898-1974) 15 coming in from the sea, with lighted cabins that
Novelist, short story writer and English royal hinted at more thrilling lives than our own.
family biographer One morning a four-masted barque under full
sail – one of the last of the Victorian beauties –
Bolitho lived here from 1911, when the house was passed so near that we could see it from our beds.
built, until 1920. He attended Devonport Primary At night we heard tipsy sailors singing their
School which he describes in his autobiography: bawdy songs, and the squawk of windlass
and rope.
The new school to which we My Restless Years, Hector Bolitho
went, at Devonport, was on the
Bolitho published over 60 books including the autobiographies
side of a hill, the summit of War in the Strand (1942) and My Restless Years (1962).
which was an old fortress, with
guns that once defended the
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Children’s author Tessa Duder began her writing
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career at 8 Fentham Rd, between 1971 and 1981.
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Novelist Maurice Gee occupied 20 Horarata Rd in
1973. His children’s novel, Under the Mountain
(1979), is set in Milford and on Rangitoto Island and
In My Father’s Den (1972), contains scenes set at a
Takapuna beachfront property.
6 Hauraki Rd.
Venus on Takapuna from A Time to Embrace,
Keith Sinclair
You suffer not alone. We are both stranded. ALLEN CURNOW (1911-2001) 10
Say: do we flourish? Do we live? Who knows! Poet, critic, playwright, journalist
To wither in the scantlest sand of homeland and academic
What kinder lot! Is it not so, my tree?
Fig Tree, Karl Wolfskehl Born in Timaru, Curnow grew up in Canterbury,
(translated by Margot Ruben) and from 1951 to 1961 lived at 13 Herbert St,
Takapuna, overlooking Shoal Bay. The house
Wolfskehl was fond of inspired at least one notable poem, ‘A Small Room
impromptu verses and this with Large Windows’. The pine trees featured in the
poem, written for Gladys poem are still present in Herbert St.
Salter, creates a picture of
North Shore in 1943.
Seven ageing pine-trees hide
Sargeson described Gladys and
Their heads in air but, planted on bare knees,
Len Salter as "friends who
Supplicate wind and tide. See if you can
have a live-in shop". At the time of the poem they
See it (if this is it), half earth, half heaven,
were selling their general store in Lake Rd.
Half land, half water, what you call a view
Strung out between the windows and the
O Takapune, suburban Metropole
tree-trunks;
Of mysteries, legends, songs a glowing bowl
Below sills a world moist with new-making
Full of refined drink of every type
where
Keen to ferment and ripe
Allen Curnow,
A Small Room with Large Windows,
Gladys, you brew this wine, you pour this wine
Allen Curnow
Reminding us Ebro, Garonne and Rhine.
In our dark sky you smile, a bloomy moon: Curnow’s works include A Book of New
Don’t leave your Takapune! Zealand Verse 1923-1945 (1945), The
Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse (1960)
The Voice of Takapuna, Karl Wolfskehl and Early Days Yet: New and Collected Poems
(translated by Friedrich Voit) (1997). He won many awards for his poetry
and is considered one of New Zealand’s
greatest poets.
Wolfskehl’s poems include Job (published posthumously), and To
MILFORD –
the Germans (1947) a poem that some say inspired the would-be
assassins of Hitler when it circulated in Germany in draft form
towards the end of the war.
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LAKE P U PUKE
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The house at 1 Stanley Ave, behind the shops was the
Texidor came here from England with her German Christine Cole Catley later founded Cape Catley
husband, Werner Droescher, in 1948 and lived on a Publishing and the Frank Sargeson Trust.
large section at Sheriff’s Hill. While on the Shore
Cole published a short story collection, It Was So Late and Other
Texidor became part of the Sargeson literary circle, Stories (1949, reprinted 1978).
which included Maurice Duggan and R.A.K. Mason.
The Texidor-Droescher household also became a Walk down Seaview Rd and turn right into Rangitoto Tce.
gathering place for many North Shore writers and 41 Rangitoto Tce was for many years the home of…
artists during this period. Texidor’s daughter
Christina married the New Zealand painter,
Keith Patterson. 3
PHOEBE MEIKLE (1910-1997)
Texidor published short fiction in New Zealand, Australian and
Writer, editor and teacher
English periodicals from 1943 until 1948. These Dark Glasses
(1949) was followed by a posthumous collection of stories in 1987.
Working at Takapuna Grammar School for over
25 years, Meikle taught many of the North Shore’s
literary minds, even if, in Bruce Mason’s case, it was
JOHN REECE COLE (1916-84) 2
only for dancing lessons. In the 1960s Meikle became
Short story writer editor of Blackwood Paul and went on to publish a
Cole (right) with Maurice Duggan, 1949.
Robin Hyde was the Escott came to New Zealand from England with her
nom-de-plume of Iris Wilkinson. family at the age of 17. They lived on a Waikato farm
The Hunt family’s beachside Californian bungalow seemed ‘like anarchy come to town’, while to
has been replaced by a modern house. Hunt was born prepare for an otherwise unbearable day at secondary
at Castor Bay and grew up in Milford, near the school, he would row his dinghy from Milford across
Wairau Creek estuary. He attended Campbells Bay the Wairau Creek mouth to Castor Bay, and there
Primary School, St Josephs in Takapuna and St Peters catch the bus to school, then at the end of the day
Secondary School, in the city. return home in the same manner.