The Workshop: A Memoir

This article is included in the book Warwick Freeman. Hook Hand Heart Star, Arnoldsche, Stuttgart, pp. 70-92.

It begins in the bay where the workshop was located. Ngataringa Bay, sometimes spelled Ngautaringa Bay. ‘Ringa’ meaning hand. Possibly named for the narrow headlands that project into the bay like the fingers on a hand. Or once did. Today the spaces between the fingers have been filled in by large areas of reclaimed land. Some as a rubbish tip (since closed and now a park) and others for storage and training facilities of the New Zealand Navy.