Waihi's Cornish Pumphouse

was built in 1903 to house steam engines and pumping equipment to dewater the historic underground Martha gold mine. It always amuses me that something built in 1903 is thought as as being old in NZ. I'm from England and my first home I ever bought was a stone cottage dating back to the 1850's.

[Dianne]

Great shot. Yes NZ isn’t very old in terms of historical buildings!

[Peter Grave]

Nice capture of an interesting building

[Issi Bannerman]

What an interesting building.

[Denise Wood]

An amazing structure :)

[ChristineL]

Great building, it looks like a face!

[sally agnew]

Interesting structure :)

[Carole Sandford]

Interesting building.

[Lynda McG]

Nice building

[Henri Russell]

Very interesting building.

[Merrelyn]

It's the same here in Australia, but sadly we won't ever have many truly old buildings as they are no longer built to last.