Northcote Point Walk

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Onewa Pa on the Point, as Graham described it, was in early times a fortified village, pallisaded and entrenched. Maori fished in the bays and gathered Picnic at ‘City of Cork’ North of Northcote Point. pre 1900. Northcote library collection. berries and roots from nearby forests. The oldest known inhabitants of the district were Today, Northcote Point enjoys the advantages of a Ngati Tai, who in ancient times suffered severely small backwater close to the city. With its many old from raids of Ngati Whatua and, in about 1650, of villas and other historic features, a beautiful coastline Ngati Paoa. Ngati Whatua then conquered the whole and spectacular views, it is one of the Shore’s most of the Auckland isthmus. Onewa was attacked again interesting heritage areas. and again and in about 1740, the remnants of the Ngati Tai tribe were driven out. Ngati Paoa took Terrain: Over level and some hilly ground. over Onewa’s Ngati Tai villages, but were driven back by Ngati Whatua. Gradually, the remnants of Duration: The walk is in three sections (1-20 Ngati Tai returned in the early 19th century to their [approx. 1 hour], 21-27 [approx. 30 mins.] old villages at Onewa. and 28-35 [approx.40 mins]) After the musket wars of the 1820s and early 1830s, Parking: Available along Queen Street or by peace returned to the Auckland area. A few Ngati Fishermans Wharf. Tai, with their last chieftain Heteraka Takapuna, continued to live at Onewa for some years. Privacy: The walk is along public roads and contains historical facts about the buildings and the area. Most of the sites on the walk are private property and many are used as private residences. Please respect the environment and the privacy of local residents, and do not trespass on private property. Start at the Bridgeway Theatre. All walks begin and end at the Bridgeway. In 1841, the North Shore was included in the vast well-known for strawberry gardens in the Belle Mahurangi block, sold by Maori to the Crown, and Vue Ave area. Onewa Pa passed from Maori ownership. Following the founding of Auckland in 1840, what By 1880, most of the Point had been subdivided and is now Northcote Point was named Rough Point many of the old villas surviving today date from the after Captain David Rough, Auckland’s first 1880-1910 period. harbour-master and superintendent of works. In 1848, the name was changed to Stokes Point by From 1848, Stokes Point was administered as part of Captain J.L. Stokes of H.M. survey ship Acheron, the Hundred of Pupuke, covering all of the North during a survey of the Waitemata Harbour. Shore. The hundreds were dissolved in 1856 and until 1866, the Auckland Provincial Council In the 1840s, the land on Stokes Point was subdivided administered the roads. The North Shore Highway into eight large lots and sold in the early 1850s to District, which included Stokes Point, was established Phillip Callan, brickmaker, John McGechie, farmer, in 1866 and became the North Shore Riding of Major Isaac Rhodes Cooper and Colonel Robert Waitemata County in 1876. The Stokes Point Wynyard. In 1867, the end of the Point was district was renamed Northcote by Major Benton subdivided by the Crown and became the Town in the early 1880s, it is thought after the British of Woodside. aristocrat Sir Stafford Northcote. Northcote attained borough status in 1908, but became part of the newly Callan had a brickworks at the southern end of created North Shore City in 1989. Sulphur Beach, possibly from the early 1840s on the basis of an agreement with Maori. Another early The late 1920s saw significant growth in Northcote, colonial industry on Stokes Point was R. Clark’s soap with the cinema, bus barns and the concrete road and candle works, present in 1848, reputedly near being built in 1927, and the post office in 1929. Sulphur Beach. The construction of the Auckland Harbour Bridge In 1854, James Reed and motorway in the late 1950s drastically changed was given a licence to the Northcote Point environment. The eastern run the Stokes Point coastline was obliterated, the ferries ceased, shops Ferry and in 1859, closed, and the Point became something of a Callan built his North backwater. Rapid northward development took Auckland Hotel on the place and the Point to take Sulphur Works c.1884 Northcote Shopping Northcote library collection. advantage of the ferry Centre opened in service and the main route north. December 1958. Sulphur works were built by James Tunny and James Pond next to Sulphur Beach in 1878, but Opening of Northcote Post Office, Queen St, 1929. did not last long. From the 1870s, Northcote was Northcote library collection. BRIDGEWAY THEATRE 1 Across the road on the corner of Bartley St is.... 122 Queen St FORMER POST OFFICE 2 115 Queen St The Onewa Picture Drome (now the Bridgeway) and the Waitemata Bus & Transport Company Ltd Northcote Point has had a post office since 1874 bus barn, offices and several shops were built in 1927 (see 5 and 7 ). This new post office was opened in by E. and J. Fraser, engineers. By 1929, the theatre’s 1929. Prime Minister Sir Joseph Ward congratulated name had changed to the Palais because of the free Northcote Borough on its progress and promised to dances, parties and fancy dress occasions that were “facilitate the citizens' request about a bridge”. The held after the pictures, with the theatre seats pushed post office closed down in 1988 and the building is back to the walls. It was renamed King's Theatre now a restaurant and architects' office. during the 1930s and The Bridgeway after the Harbour Bridge was built. The cinema underwent major refurbishment in 2000, and the old bus barn Next to the Bridgeway on the southern side is... became a second cinema. When the Waitemata Bus HALL'S BEACH 3 Co. was first established after the World War I, the distinctive red buses were housed in the old Hall's Beach was named after Peter Hall, of Winks wooden barn behind the cinema in Clarence Rd. and Hall, well-known Auckland cabinet-makers, who bought several acres next to the beach in 1870. The property was bought in about 1900 by the Fraser family who later built the Bridgeway. From about 1911 until the 1960s, boat builders such as Ernest Bailey built many boats, including launches and mullet boats, immediately to the south of Hall's Beach. Continue south along Queen St. 97, 'Korangi', 96, 'Featherstone', and 94, 'Garfield', were built by George Carter in the early 20th century. There were once many shops along Queen St. Also, Tarry’s Hall, built in the 1870s, once stood at 75. Dances, gatherings, Northcote's first movies and early borough council meetings were Waitemata Bus & Transport Company Northcote library collection. held there. Hall’s Beach, Price Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library. Bridgeway Theatre and shops Northcote library collection. Continue along to... Cross over the road. Opposite is... OLD BUTCHER'S SHOP 4 HOUSE 6 64 Queen St 59 Queen St The butcher's shop, now a residence and the Old This architecturally innovative house, home to the Butcher Shop Art Studio, was built just after 1900 by design firm CREATIONZ, was designed by the R & W Hellaby who, from 1873, built butchers' well-known Auckland architect Peter Middleton shops all over Auckland. and built in 1963. A little further along is... LEPPER’S FORMER SHOP 5 AND POST OFFICE 60 Queen St Price Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library In 1893, Henry Lepper, a tinsmith, became Northcote's postmaster. After his death in 1906, A little further along there was once an ambulance shelter, where the dead were taken on litters during the great his wife Edith filled the position until 1929, as well influenza epidemic of 1918. On the northern corner of as raising their eight children and providing many Duke St is... services to the community. After their first house 7 near the wharf burned down in 1902, this became FORMER BAKERY their new home, post and telephone office, as well 55 Queen St as a lending library, stationers and haberdashery.

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