Auckland users - 1970s memories - children's camp/home on a slope, Rangitoto views?

[sumstyle]

Cast your collective minds back and see if you can fill in many blanks please.  I lived in Sainsbury Rd, near St Lukes from 1976-1977.  My aunt and uncle visited our family, and one afternoon they took us kids to what I remember (and I may be completely wrong), was a school or boarding school or camp for deaf children during Christmas holidays.  There were no kids there.  I feel the site had a view of Rangitoto, but I don't recall if it was from the North Shore or south of the harbour bridge.  The buildings sat up the hill, with a lawn/field in front, and a budget playground to the left as you looked at the island view.  

Aunt and Uncle went on to work for the Salvation Army for a couple of years, so maybe it was a SA camp or something similar.  I've asked them but they can't remember where they took us to for the afternoon.  

Any ideas on where it could have been?

[Magoo]

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sumstyles memory fades
ethereal visions from
seasons long past

[Bracken]

sumstyle, might it have been a Health Camp, such as the one at Half Moon Bay, Pakuranga?

https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/d.../id/41134/

[crafters_corner]

This doesn't help you (I don't think), but did a bit of a google re your question,
and found this. It's about education back in the '30's to '60's. I found it
very interesting.

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/childr.../education

[sumstyle]

Bracken - fantastic - that is the place! The buildings on stilts - yep. Oh well done you - I am very pleased to know what it was.

The day we visited was very grey, and we were allowed to play outside, but it was quite eerie, with a storm brewing, and no one about in the buildings. I was a *ahem* sensitive child, so the treat of being with my cousins from Ashburton would've been offset by the anxiety about being separated from my mum.

Marvellous - I shall tell my aunt and see if the details triggers any thoughts from her.

Thank you!

[crafters_corner]

awwwwww that's just so cool.

The power of the messageboard.

[Bracken]

Very happy to have been of help, sumstyle

[Magoo]

Very happy to have been of help, sumstyle

yes
me too

[Zurdo]

I remember the Health Camp...but never went there. When I was born we lived at Bucklands Beach, and although we later left (not much work in such a remote place, as it was then) my Grandparents still lived there, and we spent every holdiday and most weekends there. Halfmoon Bay was just a mud hole, and sometimes the kids from the camp were taken on walks to a real beach. We used to just stand and watch them go past, wondering - how, why, what, who ?

[sumstyle]

Very happy to have been of help, sumstyle

yes
me too

First time anyone has written me a haiku, Magoo.  It was a delightful surprise.