Do you recognise the launch in this photo?
That's what the team at QE Health Wellness Centre are asking as they count down to the 75th anniversary of their building on the lake front.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital opened in 1942 as a convalescent hospital for servicemen returning from World War II, in partnership with Ngati Whakaue who supplied Iwi land and access to the unique healing waters of the Whangapipiro Spring.
Recreation, including arts and crafts, was an important part of the treatment.
"Like days out on the lake on the El Alamein," said Stewart Edward, his father Bob was one of the original doctors at the hospital.