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Official Bay Wynyard Pier Auckland Saltwater Baths Formation of Anzac Avenue The walking route between Point Erin Park and Parnell Baths

Official Bay (also known as Exclusion Bay) was named The 500 foot long Wynyard Pier, a timber wharf, was In 1911, a New Zealand Herald editorial described: Anzac Avenue was originally known as Jermyn Street, after the government officials who resided there. built in 1851, funded largely by private subscription. named after Captain John Jermyn Symonds (1816- “In the early days there were ample facilities for bathers Waitematā Harbour These officials were members of Governor Hobson’s Crown Colony Sir Robert Henry Wynyard (1802-1864), a colonial in every part of the foreshore, but reclamations, 1883), a 19th-century politician and judge of the THE TW government which was established in Auckland in 1840. administrator, settled in the bay in Felton Mathew’s wharves, streets, and city extensions generally, Native Land Court. old home. Point Erin 2 Prominent residents in the area included; gradually pushed the bathers away.” When work began on realigning the road in 1915 the new name Jellicoe was proposed. By the end of 1916 the name Anzac Avenue was Felton Mathew, Surveyor-General. 1 EE TEET The pier was constructed at the foot of Short Street, which at the time One of these facilities on the foreshore was the Auckland Saltwater Baths. TEET suggested instead as a memorial to the men who died at Gallipoli. The William Mason (1810-1897), one of New led to the foreshore, before Beach Road was formed. Reclamations in Located at the end of Short Street near Wynyard Pier, the baths were new road was partially opened to traffic in 1919, and by 1921 had a BET Official Bay from the 1870s and the construction of the railyards meant erected in 1867 and closed in 1876. TEET Zealand’s first architects and the designer of E TEET St Mary’s Bay T tram service. T TEET WET Point Britomart that the public lost direct access to Wynyard Pier. Point Stanley 15 Old Government House, Auckland. TEET 12 TEE

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The Auckland Saltwater Baths, c.1870. The place where you are standing is part of a journey through The Foreshore Heritage Walk is designed to Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 4-906. change and time - from a once-tranquil world of sleepy tidal inlets be followed as a comfortable half-day’s walk. Looking southeast from the vicinity of the Auckland railway yards, June 1921. Looking west from St Barnabas Point in 1868 showing Detail of the Standard Survey, City of Auckland, Beach Road is in the foreground (left to right) and Anzac Avenue leads up the hill. The premises shown include and forested headlands to the rush and hum of a 21st-century city. It can also be enjoyed in segments or as individual Mechanics Bay, Wynyard Pier, Official Bay and Point surveyed by S. Harding, 1879. Paykel Brothers Limited (under construction), J.B. King, and Skeates and White (right). panels describing local points of interest. Britomart. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 1-W1767. Extending for five kilometres through inner-city and downtown Auckland from Auckland Libraries, 4-1285. Auckland Libraries, NZ Map 116. Point Erin Park in the west to Taurarua Judges Bay in the east, the Foreshore The walk traverses a diverse section of the Looking west from the vicinity of Parnell Rise in 1859 across Mechanics Bay and Official Bay towards Point Britomart, Heritage Walk follows the line of the original shoreline that Māori and the first central city, including parks and reserves, busy Drawing of Official Bay in 1849 by Lieutenant Colonel R. Wynyard, showing St Paul’s Church and Emily Place (top left) showing Wynyard Pier (at right), Britomart Barracks (centre), St Paul’s church (left), and Parliament Building (extreme left). and the residences of Lieutenant Colonel Wynyard (left, with flag flying), Willoughby Shortland (centre) and Captain Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 7-A5449.. European settlers of Auckland knew. thoroughfares, notable landmarks and quiet Rough (lower right). Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 4-2902. It was a vastly different place from the city we are familiar with today. residential quarters. Vantage points along the In the 19th and early 20th centuries, extensive land reclamation altered much of way allow walkers to survey the city as it is now, Te Hororoa and Waiariki the shoreline beyond recognition. The building of railways and the construction and to visualise how it once must have been. of the Auckland Harbour Bridge and motorway system in the 1950s and ‘60s Provision has been made for the walk to link with other Māori knewknew this this area area as as Te Te Hororoa, Hororoa, “The Long Land Slip”, The spring was used by Māori and early settlers for drinking and changed things even more. walkways and reserve developments in the future. watering their crops. Troops at Fort Britomart also used this water “Thebecause Long it was Land the Slip”, site ofbecause a land slipit while Parerautoroa Some of the sites of the 25 interpretation panels on the Foreshore Heritage Walk The 25 interpretation panels on the Foreshore Heritage was leader. source, barrelling up water from the spring for ships anchored in were originally under the sea. Others were once deep inside vanished headlands, Walk are able to convey a snapshot of the past. However, was the site of a land slip while the bay. now quarried away to make room for the city’s expansion. Still others, on the extent of Mana Whenua’s knowledge, cultural values ParerautoroaHere too the Waiariki was chief. spring, in the vicinity of Eden After the construction of Wynyard Pier, the water was piped. The seemingly unremarkable street corners, reveal rich and colourful histories. and traditions go far beyond what can be conveyed here. Crescent, ran into the bay. The name means “Waters of bluestone retaining wall around the spring behind Newman Hall is the Ariki” or “Waters with a Curative Value”. still visible today. The Foreshore Heritage Walk is an initiative from the Waiatemā Local Board. Content has been sourced by the Auckland Council Heritage Unit and developed in consultation with the iwi of Tāmaki Makaurau. All material incorporates the latest available knowledge as of 2016. An 1860s view southwest from Wynyard Pier showing Official Bay and the intersection of Short St and Jermyn St An 1880s view of Mechanics Bay showing reclaimed land with railway sheds and yards (foreground), the An 1852 drawing of Official Bay from Wynyard Pier by Patrick Joseph Hogan (1804-1878). Detail of the City of Auckland map from the survey by J. Vercoe and E.W. Harding, 1866. (now Anzac Avenue) at lower left centre. St Paul’s Church is at top right. remains of Wynyard Pier (left), and the reclamation wall and intake (centre). Alexander Turnbull Library. Ref: A-050-023. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23235731 Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, NZ Map 18. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 4-544. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 4-1027.

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Te Tōnga Roa - Mechanic’s Bay The walking route between Point Erin Park and Parnell Baths

Te Tōnga Roa “The Dragging of Waka (canoes) a Long Distance” is the Māori name for this former bay. Waitematā Harbour

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Constitution Hill The Māori Hostel Swan Hotel The walking route between Point Erin Park and Parnell Baths

Constitution Hill overlooks what used to be Mechanic’s Māori traders often travelled to this part of Auckland Built in the mid-1850s on the Mechanic’s Bay Bay, home to Auckland’s first “mechanics”, or from various parts of the country. A Māori hostel built waterfront, the Swan Hotel (now the Strand Tavern) Waitematā Harbour

workmen, in the 1840s. by the government on 2.5 hectares of Crown land at is a prominent building in the area. THE TW

Named for a landmark in London, Constitution Hill is still traversed by a the foot of Constitution Hill was established in 1851 It is one of the earliest timber public houses surviving in Auckland. footpath from this point on the old shoreline. to house them. Initially called Victory of Sebastopol, it was renamed Swan Hotel Point Erin 2 An 1860s view of Mechanics Before 1840, the area was extensively occupied by Māori. Te Reuroa “The Bay from the bottom of Parnell in 1859. 1 EE TEET Road. Seen here are Gittos Street, A new Māori hostel, named Waipapa after the nearby creek that once TEET Long Outer Palisading” was a pā that stood on the site of the present (foreground), Constitution Hill, Several additions and alterations were made to the Swan Hotel in (background), a footbridge, Maori flowed down from the Parnell ridge, was built on the same site in late Supreme Court, up the hill in front of you. The pā extended down to the the 1870s and 1880s, with some subsequent modifications. BET canoes on the beach and Parliament 1903/early 1904. Waipapa hostel was demolished in 1966. TEET

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A journey through change and time The walk 18 Looking south from the foreshore of Mechanic’s Bay, c.1860, showing the Māori Hostel at right. Two waka (canoes) are in the foreground. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 4-2730. The place where you are standing is part of a journey through The Foreshore Heritage Walk is designed to Another 1870s view of Parnell from Constitution Hill. The Māori Hostelry is in the foreground. Augustus Terrace change and time - from a once-tranquil world of sleepy tidal inlets be followed as a comfortable half-day’s walk. runs left from Gittos Street (now Parnell Rise) which leads up the hill under the Parnell railway bridge (centre left). Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 1-W261. and forested headlands to the rush and hum of a 21st-century city. It can also be enjoyed in segments or as individual Extending for five kilometres through inner-city and downtown Auckland from panels describing local points of interest. Inset: A 1904 view east up Parnell Rise. Note the electric tram in the left foreground. Point Erin Park in the west to Taurarua Judges Bay in the east, the Foreshore Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 1-W942. The walk traverses a diverse section of the Constitution Hill and Mechanic’s Bay seen from Parnell Rise in 1868. The photo also shows the Parnell Railway Bridge and the Supreme Court Heritage Walk follows the line of the original shoreline that Māori and the first central city, including parks and reserves, busy on the hill top above. Wynyard Pier is at far right. Photograph originally taken by John Kinder, re-photographed by James D Richardson, 1868. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 4-836. European settlers of Auckland knew. thoroughfares, notable landmarks and quiet It was a vastly different place from the city we are familiar with today. residential quarters. Vantage points along the way allow walkers to survey the city as it is now, An 1843 copy of a sketch by In the 19th and early 20th centuries, extensive land reclamation altered much of Edward Ashworth, looking east the shoreline beyond recognition. The building of railways and the construction and to visualise how it once must have been. along the beach at Mechanics The Bridge to Nowhere Bay towards Parnell Rise. Note of the Auckland Harbour Bridge and motorway system in the 1950s and ‘60s Provision has been made for the walk to link with other the huts of the workmen The Parnell Railway Bridge next to the Swan and artisans (“mechanics”) changed things even more. walkways and reserve developments in the future. who settled there to work on Hotel was constructed in 1865-66, and is one the Government buildings. Some of the sites of the 25 interpretation panels on the Foreshore Heritage Walk The 25 interpretation panels on the Foreshore Heritage Sir George Grey Special were originally under the sea. Others were once deep inside vanished headlands, Collections, Auckland Libraries, of the oldest railway bridges still in use in New Walk are able to convey a snapshot of the past. However, 4-3367. Zealand. now quarried away to make room for the city’s expansion. Still others, on the extent of Mana Whenua’s knowledge, cultural values seemingly unremarkable street corners, reveal rich and colourful histories. and traditions go far beyond what can be conveyed here. Known as “The Bridge to Nowhere” when the Looking east over Mechanic’s Bay from the vicinity of Constitution railway project stalled in 1866, work resumed The Foreshore Heritage Walk is an initiative from the Waiatemā Local Board. Content has been sourced by the Auckland Council Heritage Hill, c.1860s. Beach Road is in the Unit and developed in consultation with the iwi of Tāmaki Makaurau. All material incorporates the latest available knowledge as of 2016. foreground, leading to Parnell Rise. A view of the Māori Hostel from Constitution Hill in 1861. Looking east from Constitution Hill (foreground) in 1875, showing the Māori Hostel (centre right) Parnell in c.1890. under Premier Vogel’s public work schemes in Sir George Grey Special Collections, Stanley Street runs left to right across the centre of the photo. and the Swan Hotel on the corner of Stanley Street beside the Railway Bridge. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 7-A7042. Auckland Libraries, 4-537. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 4-1117. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 4-2723. the 1870s.

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Fraser Park / Waipapa Augustus Terrace Parnell District School The walking route between Point Erin Park and Parnell Baths

This area at the eastern end of Mechanic’s Bay Augustus Terrace (formerly Selwyn Terrace) The Parnell District School was built in 1880 and within

overlooked a tidal inlet where boat-building was was named after Bishop George Augustus a few months its roll of pupils stood at over 300. Waitematā Harbour

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A journey through change and time The walk 19 The front of Parnell School seen from Parnell Road, c.1889. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 1-W257. The place where you are standing is part of a journey through The Foreshore Heritage Walk is designed to 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 Extending for five kilometres through inner-city and downtown Auckland from panels describing local points of interest. 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 European settlers of Auckland knew. thoroughfares, notable landmarks and quiet It was a vastly different place from the city we are familiar with today. residential quarters. Vantage points along the 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. of the Auckland Harbour Bridge and motorway system in the 1950s and ‘60s Provision has been made for the walk to link with other changed things even more. walkways and reserve developments in the future. Some of the sites of the 25 interpretation panels on the Foreshore Heritage Walk The 25 interpretation panels on the Foreshore Heritage were originally under the sea. Others were once deep inside vanished headlands, Walk are able to convey a snapshot of the past. However, now quarried away to make room for the city’s expansion. Still others, on the extent of Mana Whenua’s knowledge, cultural values seemingly unremarkable street corners, reveal rich and colourful histories. and traditions go far beyond what can be conveyed here.

Inset: Looking west from Augustus Terrace over Mechanic’s Bay in the 1870s, showing McQuarrie and McCallum’s shipyard (centre), the Fraser and The Foreshore Heritage Walk is an initiative from the Waiatemā Local Board. Content has been sourced by the Auckland Council Heritage Tinnes Foundry (right) and the sea wall for the Parnell School seen from the southwest, September 1900. railway reclamation. 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, 1-W116. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 4-540.