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Posted 7 months ago

New Facebook page for the Dunedin Flatnames Project

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Posted 7 months ago

Community voice : society through the ages

On Wednesday 24 October I’ll be part of a panel presenting and discussing this topic. My talk will be looking at the community of named student flats in Dunedin.

If you’d like a taster, here’s a selection of images I’ll be showing as part of the presentation which is entitled: a unique community in the north end of Dunedin: 80 years in 10 minutes.

If you’re interested in attending - please check out the link above and register.

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Posted 7 months ago

Map of named students flats in Dunedin

This is by no means complete - I need to do a comprehensive update of all my records, but it does link addresses with photos of named flats. Some are still in situ, many have long gone.


View Dunedin Student Flat Names in a larger map

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Posted 1 year ago

From posh pad to hovels, students vie for Next Top Flat title

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Posted 1 year ago

A house with the leftover carcass of a rotisseried animal lying in its backyard and the hides of bush pigs hanging over a fence is vying for a prize in the Next Top Flat Competition in Dunedin.
Source : Radio NZ 28 September 2011

 

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Posted 1 year ago

Dir. Brendan Donovan, based on the novel The Lazy Boys by Carl Shuker, feat. “Randolph’s Going Home” by Shayne Carter & Peter Jefferies. More at 

http://www.carlshuker.com/lazy_boys.html, http://twitter.com/#!/CarlShuker.


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Posted 1 year ago

In Memoriam: the Death of the Scarfie

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Posted 1 year ago

Great to see a good few named flats in the vid guys!

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Posted 2 years ago

The student flats of Dunedin immortalised / Bridget Schaumann

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Posted 2 years ago

Save the Scarfie / Inappropriate Magazine

“You can be a student anywhere but you can only be a Scarfie in Dunedin” Mark Wilson looks at the prospect of extinction facing this New Zealand cultural icon.