School Days and More at The Museum of Transport and Technology

We had a great time strolling through the different venues checking out information about Jean Batten, who was the first ever woman to fly direct from England to New Zealand in October 1936.

An old time school room, very different from the school rooms of today. 

Reminiscent of Dr Who’s Tardis.  Telephone boxes were very distinctive looking but like everywhere today in the name of saving money, they are no longer found. Too bad if you don’t possess a mobile phone.

This old fashioned butchers shop even had sawdust on the floor. You don’t find that nowadays. Eash week when my mother and I went shopping  he always gave me a piece of rolled up luncheon sausage. I remember my mother telling me that on they day I started school she was very upset and tearful when she went shopping and the butcher sympathetically said to her “ Oh dear, so Wanda started school today!”   He then gave her a prime rib roast for free.  Now you wouldn’t get that sort of treatment today.

You don’t see prices like this anymore. 

After strolling through the old time car section we caught the tram  (similar to this one)  to Keith Hay Park to look at the aviation section.

Replica of Sir Keith Park’s Hurrican Aircraft..  Air Vice-Marshall Sir Keith Park was a New Zealander who joined the British Air force in World War Two. He helped organise the evacuation of Dunkirk. He returned to live in New Zealand in 1948 and MOTAT’s aviation collection is named in his honour.

There is just so much interesting information available so if you are coming to Auckland make sure you check out this fabulous interactive museum. 

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