Book To Sure Up Newmarket’s Identity

Book To Sure Up Newmarket’s Identity in ‘Super City’ Year

Award winning local history book Newmarket Lost & Found has just been expanded and updated. First published in 2001, the book by Dinah Holman QSO has been recommissioned by the Newmarket Business Association.

“In this the year of mass municipal amalgamation and the ‘super-city’, we thought it was critical for Newmarket’s future to celebrate its unique identity and colourful past. It’s a beautiful book and it’s already selling well at Dymocks Newmarket,” says Cameron Brewer, chief executive of the Newmarket Business Association.

“Newmarket is like no other place in New Zealand,” says author Dinah Holman whose 2001 edition was highly commended in the J M Sherrard Awards for local and regional history.

“Many people with extraordinary stories have made what was once the smallest borough in New Zealand so interesting. It has been the home of so much activity over the past 170 years – brewing, the railway junction, the Olympic Pool, the timber yards and many other well-known industries and businesses that are still household names,” says Dinah Holman.

Cameron Brewer: “We were keen to get some of Newmarket’s key post-war personalities on the record and that’s what Dinah has done. It’s great to now have profiles on former Newmarket mayor David Lumsden, as well as old local identities such as Bill Caughey, Owen Cashmore, Nobby Clark, and Kevyn Male.

“Another new chapter is dedicated to the enormous development that has taken place over the past decade, including the new railway station, the replacement of the Newmarket motorway viaduct, Broadway’s upgrade, side street developments, and residential intensification.

“Today Newmarket prides itself on being “The Fashion Capital of New Zealand”. It was once the home of industry. Newmarket has done well to attract so many shops and shoppers away from Auckland’s central city. Only a place with real history, personality and energy could achieve that,” says Cameron Brewer.

Published by Bush Press ‘Newmarket Lost & Found’ is available exclusively from Dymocks Newmarket, 255 Broadway, for $39.99.

“Viewing this primarily as a community project, we were keen to keep the price down and keep it within people’s reach. Just under $40 is a very good price for what is a beautifully illustrated 300-page high-quality hardback. It looks great on the coffee table and is also a comprehensive historical resource.”

“It is affordable because we as a business community were the principal funders and thanks to generous sponsorship from the Hobson Community Board and the New Zealand Transport Agency.

“In the year of the ‘super city’ the book helps remind people just what Newmarket is all about and where it has come from. We are keener than ever to continue fostering Newmarket’s unique identity and encourage other areas do the same if they want to preserve their individuality into the future,” says Cameron Brewer.

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