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was known as Hobson's Bridge, referring to an old wooden bridge that existed on modern-day Davis Crescent, which crossed Hobson's Creek, a former waterway. The road was the southern border of the township of Auckland in 1852, so that an ordinance stopping loose cattle could be applied to a larger
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The area became a centre for brewers in the mid-19th century, due to the presence of a natural spring. The Captain Cook Inn opened by Thomas Hancock on the road in 1859. Originally brewing beer just for the tavern, by 1862 the brewery had become a commercial venture for Hancock. Richard Seccombe
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The Captain Cook Inn was demolished in 1968. The last brewery site on the road was the Lion Brewery, which sold its premises in 2008, and was later redeveloped as a satellite campus of the
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During the late 1850s and 1860s, the land adjacent to Khyber Pass was subdivided and sold as suburban housing, including sections such as the Kyber Pass Village and Kyber Pass Estate.
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Khyber Pass began life as a dirt track, during the early settlement of Auckland in the 1840s. As the road was seen as a dangerous frontier, it was named after the
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memorial, the church was closed in 2020, and reopened in late 2023 as the Kāhui St David's community centre.
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community centre. Originally opened in 1927 as St David's Presbyterian Church, a combined church and
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purchased land on Khyber Pass, where water reservoirs and pumping stations were established.
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opened a brewery opposite the Inn in 1861 called the Great Northern Brewery, later known as
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in the 1860s. The spelling Kyber Pass was commonly used, up until the early 1940s.
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Newton
Grafton
Newmarket
36°51′57″S 174°46′10″E / 36.8657°S 174.7695°E / -36.8657; 174.7695
Symonds Street
Auckland City Centre
New Zealand
Symonds Street
Newmarket
Western Line
Auckland Southern Motorway

John Kinder
Ōhinerau / Mount Hobson

Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Khyber Pass
Pakistan
British India
Great South Road
Invasion of the Waikato
Newmarket
Lion Brewery
Auckland City Council
University of Auckland
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Symonds Street Cemetery
Grafton railway station
Western Line

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