Household, Oxford
70 Bay Road, fr. c.1865
A documentary project in 70 Bay Road, Oxford.
“In rural New Zealand, houses consist of one storey only. They are built of wood, roofed with corrugated iron, and painted in various buff or cream-coloured shades with red, brown or green facings. … The life of a wooden house of the type built in the early days is about fifty years: it follows that the old farmhouses of Littledene are falling into decay. … The wood-borer, which came from England as an uninvited guest in the boxes and furniture of the early settlers, plays havoc with the fabric of these houses and fills the air of many of them with yellow wood-dust.”
— Somerset, H.C.D. (1938) Littledene: a New Zealand rural community. Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Publication — Mahoney, Richard (2025) Household, Oxford: 70 Bay Road, fr. c.1865. Camera Antipodea No. 2. Oxford: Indica et Buddhica. (forthcoming)
