Posts Tagged ‘Home of Compassion Creche’

Cameras capture Compassion Sister’s building on the move

Friday, September 12th, 2014

Time-lapse footage shows the historic Home of Compassion creche being carefully pulled, lifted and pushed on to it’s new site in the National War Memorial Park in central Wellington, which is to be completed by Anzac Day next year. Memorial Park Alliance community relations manager Brian Aspin said each stage of the three phase move Read more

Compassion Creche on the move

Friday, May 23rd, 2014

The historic Home of Compassion Creche on Buckle St took its first few tentative steps towards its new home yesterday as construction workers began slowly pulling the 100-year-old building off its foundations on Buckle St using hydraulic rams. The process, which will be carried out over the next couple of days, is the first in Read more

Creche de wheels at Basin Reserve

Tuesday, February 18th, 2014

The former Home of Compassion Creche is going to get a new lease of life and a new location in the Buckle Street Memorial Park, complete with a picket fence and garden reminiscent of the original. The category-1 heritage listed building at 18 Buckle St will be rolled to the back of its site and then Read more