Newmarket

This guide to Newmarket in Auckland opens with the felling of a sacred cabbage tree, Te Ti Tutahi, at a dusty crossroads in 1908, and traces how a fortnightly cattle market on the same ground gave the district its name. You'll hear about the railway workshops that once hammered out locomotives here, and how an Ulster-born draper named Marianne Smith opened a small shop in 1880 that grew into a landmark on this street. Walk Broadway today and you're standing on layers of sacred tree, cattle yard, warehouse and boutique.