The Nation­al Lib­rary has joined the Flickr Com­mons pro­ject, whack­ing up many of their pho­tos on Flickr. At the moment, there’s not much from Wel­ling­ton, but we’re hop­ing that will change as more are uploaded.

One par­tic­u­lar Wel­ling­ton delight, how­ever, is a set of pho­tos of a ram­shackle house on Cuba Street called the Old She­bang (she­bang in this instance means dwell­ing).

And as well as that, Google are in the pro­cess of put­ting Life magazine’s archive of 10 mil­lion pho­tos online. So far, search­ing for Wel­ling­ton brings up slim pick­ings, but it’ll be worth check­ing back on as the archive grows.

But until then, you can browse Life’s New Zea­l­and pho­tos. Or, um, check out this photo of Madonna look­ing all cool in 1984.