Roslyn Fire Station

Highgate, Roslyn

Mostly public buildings don't make the list as the government never goes out of business and their buildings therefore tend to keep be used, or knocked down and replaced on the same sites.

A noteable exception in NZ is the change to the postal service which saw a large number of post office buildings sold off and at some point I will add some of those here for peoples interest.

This Fire Station was decomissioned in the 80's I believe from memory and was converted into a series of flats and a residential appartment for the landlord.

Another trait of government buildings is a certain level of uniformity. Once you have designed a decent fire station there is no need to reinvent the wheel you just build several of them the same in different locations. We are all familiar with the State House in NZ which certainly displays this trait and so apparantly do fire stations.

Here is the Lookout Point fire station, which while not exactly the same is a clear sibling of the Roslyn one

And if that is a sibling then presumably the Central Fire Station was the big Daddy but it also shows some heritage with its suburban children.

And finally what became of the Roslyn Fire Station I hear you ask
Well this is the modern station relocated to Nairn Street

And while this is a pleasant enough building still clearly showing some historic links to the former buildings I think I prefer the rather grander style of the 1930's play book.