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Story: Men and women in the city

Garden shed

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Garden shed

As well as a place for storing garden and other tools, the backyard shed was where men tinkered and fixed things. Nevile Lodge’s 1967 cartoon about the extension of hotel closing hours also satirises the shed as a ‘male space’, by having the woman bar access.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Nevile Sidney Lodge Collection (B-133/138)

Reference: B-137-321

by Nevile Lodge

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Caroline Daley, Men and women in the city – Suburban men, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/24597/garden-shed (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Caroline Daley, published 17 December 2009.