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Kōrero: City parks and green spaces

Anderson Park, Wellington

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Anderson Park, Wellington

Until Anderson Park was completed in 1910, Thorndon and the surrounding suburbs did not have a park nearby for sports and other forms of active recreation. This is the park not long after it was finished. The flat playing fields contrast with the surrounding hills; the park had required major earth-moving works.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, L. I. Parton Collection

Reference: PAColl-4601-01

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Kerryn Pollock, City parks and green spaces – Later urban parks, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/20569/anderson-park-wellington (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 26 February 2010.