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Swanson Oaks
Place Category: Park
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Profile
– Small park with some seating and a petanque court
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Todo Redwood Park was also used after the WW11 for; Refugees and displaced people who came to New Zealand in from 1946-1965. Living in the cabins, until they could move on from there – with jobs and houses. We had a lot of the children going to Swanson School at the time from the park. [Dawn Ellis]
The Knox Memorial Park is named after the Knox family who ran a general store on the opposite corner for over 50 years. Robert Knox had brought the business from James Patterson Sinclair who had set it up in about 1886. In January 1889 James Sinclair added a bakery and confectionary. The district’s b Read more [...]
– Community involvement – Mosaics of native birds – Foundations of old railway overbridge
– Maori Heritage area – “the hill at the end of the range” – Very nice look out point [CHI 17687]
– build 1939 – todo: why is there a bridge here ? [CHI 3417] [Auckland Regional Council Parks Service: Waitakere Ranges Regional Parkland Management Plan April 1992] [Cameron, Hayward and Murdoch 1997: A Field Guide to Auckland]
