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Totara Estate
The farm from which New Zealand's first shipment of frozen meat left for Britain.
Freemasons Centre
Men's clubs played a vital role in social and business life in colonial towns such as Ōamaru.
Ōamaru Showgrounds
Show Day in Ōamaru is still an annual attraction.
Ōamaru Courthouse
Unlike many of its earliest ‘clients’, the courthouse presents a dignified and sober face to Ōamaru's main street.
Criterion Hotel
For decades this Ōamaru pub could not sell beer.
Ōamaru bank buildings
For many people these buildings symbolise Whitestone Oamaru.
Oamaru Harbour Board offices
Oamaru's famous architect Thomas Forrester designed this delightful Venetian-influenced building for the town's Harbour Board.
Port of Ōamaru
New Zealand's only authentic Victorian/Edwardian deep-sea port.
St Kevin's school memorial grotto
The war memorial grotto at St Kevin's School, Ōamaru
Ōamaru, whitestone city - roadside stories
Video about the history of Ōamaru's limestone buildings and the town's connection to the frozen meat export trade
Nurse Isabel Clark memorial
Memorial oak to Nurse Isabel Clark
St Pauls Church war memorial
St Paul's Church Second World War memorial
Concreted container in Oamaru Harbour
Container filled with concrete used to stop erosion
Oamaru Hospital nurses war memorial
Oamaru Hospital nurses war memorial.
St Lukes Church First World War memorial
St Lukes Church First World War memorial
Oamaru garden of memories
Memorial garden for Waitanki district soliders
Terra Nova arrives at Oamaru
A small, red night watchman's shed on the Oamaru wharf has a passing link to Scott's Terra Nova expedition
Memorial oak to Robert Falcon Scott, Oamaru
There are a number of memorials in New Zealand to British explorer Captain Robert Scott.
North Otago memorial oaks
North Otago memorial oaks in Oamaru
Oamaru North School memorial
Oamaru North School memorial on the School grounds, Reed Street.
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