The war memorial was built to commemorate casualties of WW1, 1914-18. Later tablets have been added with the names of those lost in WW2, Korea and other conflicts. The monument is scheduled as a historic place by Heritage NZ ( Category 2) and the Auckland Council #325, Category A.

The WW1 Memorial in Devonport that was finally built was one of several proposed designs. This is one of the alternatives. The original artwork is held by Auckland Council Archives, Takapuna

This category B scheduled home has been the subject of a research project and short film commissioned by Devonport Heritage. We will be filming the renovations as they progress and hope to be able to show this late 2015

Built by a Mr E W Savage builder c. 1910. There are several almost identical homes in Summer Street that are likely to be his work too.

former military buildings, now used by the Department of Conservation as offices

One of two similar scheduled houses in Jubilee Avenue. Heritage NZ category 2 listing as a historic place; # 376 Auckland Council category B

View over Devonport. The simple bench seats are widely uses around the borough and are said to have been designed by the former borough engineer.

The  building on the right of the picture shows the former Bank of New Zealand, which is Heritage NZ Category 2 listed. Auckland Council have also scheduled this as Cagtegory A ,  #294 . To the left with the tiled roof 16-18 Victoria Road #295 on the Auckland Council schedule of heritage places.

10 Victoria Road built in 1938 as the Devonport Post Office. Heritage NZ Category 2 Historic Place;  Auckland Council schedule #293 , Category A

This sign was in Vauxhall Road until about 2012, but is now missing.

Built for the army in 1939, two of the many barracks buildings have been restored in a 2014-15 project by the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board

former Narrow Neck military Camp, Devonport. Restored 2015

The wall along King Edward Parade dates from 1902. Scheduled by Auckland Council # 329 category A and HNZPT Category 2

From 1850-1880  the Devonport foreshore along King Edward and Queen's Parades was full of ship and boatbuilding, and was the busiest shipbuilding area in New Zealand. This surviving slipway is one of two at the Devonport  Yacht Club. The first Devonport commercial wharf for passengers and freight was at the foot of Church Street where the Masonic Hotel was and the Duder family ran their various businesses and store. The area is also rich in very early Maori history and contains numerous archaeological sites

The arch and its distinctive lamp in King Edward Parade were built to commemorate the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. King Edward Parade was re-named from Beach Road too. The arch and lamp are the symbol for Devonport Heritage.

Located on the Triangle reserve in Victoria Road

#450 Auckland Council heritage schedule Category A

Engraved concrete kerb on Victoria Road - King Edward Parade crossing.

#329 Auckland Council heritage schedule Category A; Heritage NZ Historic Place Category 2

Dating from 1902 to celebrate the Coronation of King Edward V11.

Heritage scheduled Category A as part of #329 Auckland Council . Heritage NZ ( HNZPT) Category 2

Now deconsectrated and in private ownership. The church was completed in 1917. #288 Auckland Council heritage schedule category A. The listing includes the historic cemetery which is now owned by Auckland Council

Former shop , probably built about 1907, now architects offices. #264 Auckland Council heritage schedule category A

Porch and door offices of Salmond Reed Architects - 58 Calliope Road . Auckland Council Schedule #264 , Category A

#567 Auckland Council heritage schedule Category B.

# 567 Auckland Council heritage schedule Category B

# 287 Auckland Council heritage schedule category A. Heritage NZ Historic Place category 1. The sunken fort with its crenelated parapet was built in 1886, when there was a prospect of a British was with Russia, that may have left NZ vulnerable.

26 Oxford Terrace. #580 Auckland Council heritage schedule Category B

#354 Auckland Council heritage schedule category B. Formerly a private hotel and then the Oceanside resthome. Now reverted to private home. The pohutukawa trees are scheduled as notable trees #151

Auckland Council heritage schedule #d266

Heritage NZ/HNZPT Category 2

One of a pair of lovely villas, finished with rusticated weatherboards, bay windows and wraparound verandahs.

Auckland Council heritage schedule #375 Category B

Heritage NZ/HNZPT Category 2

Auckland Council Category A, schedule #330. Heritage NZ HNZPT Category 2.

 Alexander Watson was a well known Devonport resident, having made his fortune on the goldfields of Thames/Coromandel. 

Originally the North Shore Rowing Club rooms. #275 Auckland Council Heritage schedule category A

Gothic revival style. Long associated with the settler Duder family , one of the very first European families to make the North Shore their home. #268 Auckland Council heritage schedule, category A.

former private hotel, then the Oceanside Rest Home. Now a private residence. Auckland Council #354 heritage schedule.

33 Cheltenham Road. The Spanish Mission style addition was added for hotel accommodation.

Auckland Councils schedule #354 category B

" McHughs". Built over a hundred years ago as a tea kiosk for parties of beachgoers, McHughs is still a popular venue. # 356 Auckland Council heritage schedule category B.

This is an Edwardian corner bay villa , built for Mr Goldwater  c. 1905-6.  #266 Auckland Council heritage schedule Category A; Heritage NZ Historic Place Category 2

One of a pair of villas. Auckland Council schedule #376 Category B.

Heritage NZ/HNZPT Category 2

One of a pair of similar houses in Jubilee Ave.

#375 Auckland Council heritage schedule category B. Heritage NZ historic place Category 2

Erected in 1959 at the behest of C F Woodall, Mayor of Devonport. The memorial commemorates the arrival in the Waitemata of the Tainui canoe which made it's landing near the monument site, probably nearer Duder's beach at the foot of Church Street. The bird image of the sacred bird Korotangi, was presented by King Koroki on behalf of the maori people/

#327 Auckland Council heritage schedule Category A

#330 Auckland Council heritage schedule Category A. Heritage NZ Historic Place Category 2

#275 Auckland Council heritage schedule Category A

# 268 Auckland Council heritage schedule Category A.11 Church Street was the former home of the Duder family one of the first European families to settle on the North Shore

Devonport's notorious early days were brought to life in the reading of the play 'Always My Sister' staged by Devonport Heritage in October 2014

"Devonport‟s main shopping strip, Victoria Road, has been called Auckland‟s best suburban street, with its two storeyed brick and plaster facades, shops below, living accommodation above and generous sheltering verandas. These buildings were erected in the late 1880s after a disastrous fire that destroyed many of the earlier wooden buildings " (North Shore thematic heritage review)

Formerly a tea kiosk, serving day trippers who came by ferry from the city. Still a very popular venue, utilising the century old building.

Auckland Council schedule #356

This landmark building was designed by prominent architect Henry Walter Lloyd Bates in the English cottage revival style, 1929.

The house features coromandel stone chimney and walls.

Auckland Council schedule #373, category B. Heritage NZ category 2

formerly owned by the Alison brothers, Ewen  and Alexander, a well known settler family on the North Shore. Among other enterprises the brothers founded the Devonport Steam Ferry Company.

Auckland Council heritage schedule #372, category B

Heritage NZ/HNZPT Category 2

Modeled on english seaside hotels in an Edwardian 'baroque revival style' built c.1902-3  the hotel replaced an earlier hotel on the site.

Auckland Council heritage schedule #290, category A. Heritage NZ/HNZPT category 1

Auckland Council schedule #323 category A

The art deco style clock was designed by architect R A Lippincott.

The plaque reads " Erected by citizens in honour of the Hon E W Alison M.L.C. and to commemorate his 50 years of valuable, notable and continuous service to the community, 27 Oct 1928.

Auckland Council schedule # 277 Category A, Heritage NZ category A

Auckland Council schedule #371 , category B. One of a number of church buildings recognised for their heritage value, the Salvation Army Hall is now a private residence.

Designed by Wade and Bartley and constructed in 1925, with alterations in 1948, the fire station was the third for the Devonport Fire Brigade, and used for that purpose for over 70 years before the brigade moved to a newer fire station in Lake Road

Along with the attached and detached former fire station living quarters, the building is scheduled by Auckland Council schedule #595, category B

The shop with typical accommodation above are Auckland Council schedule #347, category B

HNZPT listed,St Augustine's was built in 1930 in memory of those of the parish who gave their lives in WW1. The previous 1865 wooden church which was relocated from Holy Trinity in Church Street  in 1911 and served as the church until the newer one was built. The original church now serves as the parish hall. Source holytrinity.gen.nz

116 Calliope Road , the addition of two small shops dates ( note the tow doors) from 1923 with the villa around 1893.

Auckland Council schedule #572 category B

Tucked away in Stanley Bay park,

Early examples of State Housing on the North Shore

dating from 1872, this was formerly the sunday school at Holy trinity , Devonport and was moved here after the original St Michaels burnt down c 1910. The church closed and was deconsectrated 1n 2011. Now in private ownership. Source www.stuff.co.nz

Picture - C Page

formerly the ladies and gentlemans toilets of the North Shore Racecourse the guides have occupied the building since 1939

The den started life as theEmergency Precautions Service gas decontamination station c WWII, and the annexed wooden part, an army hut. Auckland Council Heritage Schedule #596 ,Category B

NZHPT and Auckland Council scheduled. Built 1916, the church was closed in 2011, and is now in private ownership. 

Devonport Fire Station4- 6 Calliope Road, designed c 1925 by architect Wade and Buckley with alterations in 1948-9 by Lewis Walker. Auckland Council Heritage Schedule cat. B. This was Devonport;s this view station used for nearly 70 years

Also the site of the first Devonport wharf

Image merged by Mark Bishop using an Auckland Libraries - Sir George Grey Special Collections 1-W728, taken in October 1926, with an image taken by Mark Bishop in 2015. Images such as these show how much, or how little has changed in almost a century. Thanks to Mark Bishop and Auckland Libraries.

Mark Bishop has merged a 1923 image of Cheltenham Beach from North Head with one taken 1n 2015. Thanks to Mark Bishop and the "Sir George Grey Special Collections Auckland Libraries 1-W359, for the use of image.

The domain in the foreground was swampy land until drained to form the reserve

This cemetery and the one nearby at St Paul's church contain the graves of many early North Shore settlers. After O'Neill's Point Cemetery opened in Bayswater the cemetery was legally 'closed'. The Patuone grave is rare as usually maori were buried in their ancestral erupa, however it was evidently Patuone's request to be buried next to his old friend, Captain Wynyard in Devonport.

Photo C Page, 2015

Takarunga / Mt Victoria is the focal point of the iconic view

A volcano that has been significantly quarried away for road building beginning in the mid-19th century