Te Takutai taketake o Tāmaki Makaurau Tāmaki o taketake Takutai Te Discover Auckland’s Original Foreshore Original Auckland’s Discover 13 Foreshore Heritage Walk Heritage Foreshore You are at site at are You FOLD Foreshore Heritage Walk Discover Auckland’s Original Foreshore Follow the Foreshore Heritage Walk Te Takutai taketake o Tāmaki Makaurau Whāia Te Ara Takutai Sites of significance Swanson Street Queen Street The walking route between Point Erin Park and Parnell Baths Māori knew this beautiful coastline as Tāmaki The high land here defines the inner limits of Queen Street was formed along the banks of Makaurau (“Tāmaki of the many lovers”), a place so Commercial or Store Bay and was the first area of Waihorotiu, a creek that ran down the Queen Street Waitematā Harbour bountiful that many tribal wars were fought for its European settlement in 1840. gully. In the absence of good infrastructure in the THE TW possession. The area’s fertile gardening soils, abundant Originally known as West Queen Street, the lane was named Swanson settlement’s early years, waste was disposed fishing stocks and headlands offering vantage points Street in 1883, after Hon. William Swanson (1819-1903). He was a of into the creek which emptied into the Point Erin 2 made Tāmaki, as it still is today, the centre of the prominent colonial businessman, timber miller, MP for Newton 1871-1884 Waitematā Harbour. 1 EE TEET and member of the Legislative Council. TEET largest Māori population in the world. By the early 1850s, brick walls lined the sides of the creek and it BET The intersecting Mills Lane was named after Thornton, Smith and Firth’s TEET became known as Ligar’s Canal. Footbridges were built to cross the E TEET St Mary’s Bay T flour mill nearby. Josiah Clifton Firth (1826-1897) became a prominent T TEET WET Point Britomart Point Stanley 15 “canal” in several places. TEET 12 TEE E businessman and landowner. 3 PEH TEET EE T TEET ET H Commercial Bay Nga Wharau a Tako T Q Flooding and collapses were common until the canal was completely Offical Bay Campbell’s Point HE BEH 16 4 13 TEET Brickfield Bay FT TEET T E On the ridge in the vicinity of where you are standing stood a pā covered and transformed into the Queen Street sewer in the 1870s. Point Fisher 9 BE STEET EE A FHWE TEET W TEET 14 HT H Point Resolution A 1930 map of the Auckland waterfront showing the original extent of the coastline in 1841. 5 11 R (fortified village) known as Nga Wharau a Tako (“Tako’s Reed Huts”). This served as Auckland’s main sewer until the Ōrākei Scheme of the OAD Point Dunlop 23 Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, NZ Map 5711. EW TEET 10 St Barnabas Point 17 Taurarua Judges Bay E ET 25 early twentieth century. St George’s Bay 22 24 Freeman’s Bay E TEET 7 E T THE T TEET T TEET WET E TEET QU 6 T TEET WET TEE T HB TE 20 TE The road surface in Queen Street was paved in asphalt in 1902, by BET EE EE H FEE TEET THE T AL 8 T 21 B Te Tarapounamu Looking northwest along Queen 18 Mechanics Bay which time the area was a commercial hub. WEEE TEET WET Street in 1857, showing the Ligar B E E TEET E TEET PB P Canal and Greyhound Inn (right). D TEET 19 Te Tarapounamu was the Māori name for the track that led up what is TEET PE E Sir George Grey Special Collections, SYMM THE TW Looking south in the 1880s down the west side of Queen Street from Customs Street to Swanson Street, showing Auckland Libraries, 4-387. EPHE EE WEEE TEET T TEET now Swanson Street from Queen Street to Nga Wharau a Tako pā on the the premises of Thornton, Smith and Firth, the Wharf Hotel, the Mutual Life Association, M Levy and Company, F T T Shera Brothers, New Zealand Insurance Company and buildings south to Milne and Choyce Limited, 1880s. TEET WET TEET EE ridge in the vicinity of where you are standing. U Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 4-787. Q You are at site This was most likely the pā known as Nga Wharau a Tako (“Tako’s Reed and area re eclaiation area Waitematā Harbour ean High Water ark Huts”). Foreshore Heritage Walk m m m m km 13 Te Tarakaraihi A journey through change and time The walk At the foot of Te Tarapounamu (now Swanson Street) lay a canoe The place where you are standing is part of a journey through The Foreshore Heritage Walk is designed to landing called Te Tarakaraihi. change and time - from a once-tranquil world of sleepy tidal inlets be followed as a comfortable half-day’s walk. and forested headlands to the rush and hum of a 21st-century city. It can also be enjoyed in segments or as individual The corner of Queen Street and Swanson Street in 1910. panels describing local points of interest. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19101201-6-2. Extending for five kilometres through inner-city and downtown Auckland from Te Whatu Point Erin Park in the west to Taurarua Judges Bay in the east, the Foreshore The walk traverses a diverse section of the Heritage Walk follows the line of the original shoreline that Māori and the first central city, including parks and reserves, busy Opposite Te Tarakaraihi was a site named Te Whatu (“The Rock”). This European settlers of Auckland knew. thoroughfares, notable landmarks and quiet rock ledge, at the foot of what is now Shortland St, was where canoes residential quarters. Vantage points along the were moored and Māori ceremonies performed. It was a vastly different place from the city we are familiar with today. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, extensive land reclamation altered much of way allow walkers to survey the city as it is now, the shoreline beyond recognition. The building of railways and the construction and to visualise how it once must have been. Looking north down the east side of Queen Street in the 1860s, showing a large portion of the Ligar Canal of the Auckland Harbour Bridge and motorway system in the 1950s and ‘60s Waihorotiu or Horotiu Creek which had collapsed after heavy rain. A group of men inspect the damage outside the Metropolitan Hotel Provision has been made for the walk to link with other on the corner of Fort Street. changed things even more. walkways and reserve developments in the future. A constricted thoroughfare. Looking down Swanson Looking east from Albert Street down Swanson Street in Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 4-400. Waihorotiu or Horotiu Creek, was a creek that flowed down that gulley Street in 1909. 1963, with Shortland Street in the distance. Sir George Some of the sites of the 25 interpretation panels on the Foreshore Heritage Walk The 25 interpretation panels on the Foreshore Heritage that became Queen St. The creek, whose name means “babbling current”, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 580-7791. AWNS-19090902-16-4. were originally under the sea. Others were once deep inside vanished headlands, Walk are able to convey a snapshot of the past. However, was named after Horotiu Pa on the hill where Albert Park is today. Inset: An 1860s view from the corner of Swanson Street along the west side of Albert Street, showing the premises of Vickery and Masefield and the Clanricarde Hotel on the corner of Wyndham Street. now quarried away to make room for the city’s expansion. Still others, on the extent of Mana Whenua’s knowledge, cultural values Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 4-250. seemingly unremarkable street corners, reveal rich and colourful histories. and traditions go far beyond what can be conveyed here. Te Roukai Looking south along Lower Queen Street, c.1920, with crowds watching a parade. The buildings from The Foreshore Heritage Walk is an initiative from the Waiatemā Local Board. Content has been sourced by the Auckland Council Heritage Te Roukai (“The Food Gathering”) was a pipi (shellfish) bank situated ta The same corner in 1865, showing (left to right) Gundry’s Chemist, the Royal Oak Hotel and the Victoria Hotel. right to left include Hugh Wright’s, Winstone’s, Vaile’s, Alliance Assurance Company, New Zealand Unit and developed in consultation with the iwi of Tāmaki Makaurau. All material incorporates the latest available knowledge as of 2016. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 4-414. Insurance and the New Zealand Herald. the mouth of Horotiu Creek. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 36-P1. FOLD Delve deeper into the history of Auckland’s Brochures and walking maps can also be foreshore and discover other great city walks. downloaded from: You can download the free Walk Auckland app aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/heritagewalks to your smartphone, or scan the QR code to gain access. Te Takutai taketake o Tāmaki Makaurau Tāmaki o taketake Takutai Te Discover Auckland’s Original Foreshore Original Auckland’s Discover 14 Foreshore Heritage Walk Heritage Foreshore You are at site at are You FOLD Foreshore Heritage Walk Discover Auckland’s Original Foreshore Follow the Foreshore Heritage Walk Te Takutai taketake o Tāmaki Makaurau Whāia Te Ara Takutai Commercial Bay & Fort Street Land Reclamations Jean Batten The walking route between Point Erin Park and Parnell Baths Where you are standing was originally part of the Felton Mathew’s 1841 plan of Auckland provided for allotments of This street was named Jean Batten Place in 1936, in shoreline of Commercial Bay.