Market Square and Queen Street
1907 (Henry Winkelmann) - 2025
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The Market Hotel is at centre in Winkelmann's photograph, with Oddfellows Hall at right. Cook Street is in the foreground, with Grey Street (now Greys Avenue), the future site of the Town Hall, and Queen Street in the background at left. This scene was transformed utterly by the creation of Aotea Square, with even the topography being modified, erasing all traces of this section of Cook Street. The resulting changes to ground level—along with the fact that the modern scene has absolutely nothing visually in common with the 1907 one—made this a particularly confusing exercise.
Below: Old Cook Street, the Market Hotel and Oddfellows Hall are right of centre in this 1911 photograph by Frederick George Radcliffe.
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Below: A photograph looking down Cook Street from the 1910s by an unidentified photographer. Henry Winkelmann would have been positioned in the vicinity of the footpath seen at left here when he made the picture at the top of this page. The side street visible in the middle distance at left led to the City Market.
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Below: A 1927 photograph by James Richardson. Cook Street is on the right.
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Below: The Market Hotel was still standing in 1964 when the Beatles visited Auckland—it can be seen at right in the then-and-now image pair below.
Civic Reception for The Beatles
1964 (probably by Ernest Ian MacLaren) - 2026
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Below: An elevated view of the modern scene. Old Cook Street ran approximately through the centre of this picture. Click image for a larger version.
