Foreshore Heritage Walk

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In this vicinity were the Shelly Beach salt water baths and small boatyards, all of which have disappeared as a result of the reclamation for the Harbour Bridge and motorway.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_0.mp3?alt=media&token=9a5d820b-c828-4ee7-8634-fa7f02124e52"},{"address":"Saint Marys Bay","location":{"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":-36.84304482617863,"longitude":174.746360925318,"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052},"placeId":"ChIJ-2uLFYlHDW0RoAWjQ2HvAAU","media":[{"content":"### **ST MARY’S BAY – KO TAKERE HAERE (WESTERN END)**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fst%20marys%20bay.png?alt=media&token=9bbb17d2-50be-4e42-8d11-2dfcfc690565","type":"img"},{"content":"The former beach at St Mary’s Bay was known as Ko Takere Haere or ‘the split canoe hull’. The name commemorates an event where slaves who were hauling a waka onto shore accidentally caused it to slip on its skids cracking the hull. This was taken as a bad omen and the slaves were thus sacrificed for their indiscretion. The hinterland of this bay was named Mount St Mary by Bishop\nPompallier, who purchased it for the Catholic Church in 1853. St Mary’s Bay was the major ‘hauling out’ area for boats moored on the western side of the city, and the home of the Ponsonby Cruising Club. A 1956 campaign by local residents who fought to keep the area tidal was defeated and St Mary’s Bay was sacrificed to form the Harbour\nBridge approaches.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_1.mp3?alt=media&token=87515d4a-d42b-4248-a570-8cddfc13ae60"},{"address":"16 Waitemata Street","location":{"latitude":-36.844780137038576,"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"longitude":174.7506954814569},"placeId":"ChIJ_yTUjYxHDW0R9C3HJ77G8M0","media":[{"content":"### **ST MARY’S BAY (EASTERN END)**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fst%20marys%20bay%203.jpg?alt=media&token=a76f0a9a-decf-482d-be98-dc97c5f3647d","type":"img"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fst%20marys%20bay%201.jpg?alt=media&token=f83e5bb2-011e-45d2-b321-4cdb63f3c728","type":"img"},{"content":"Te Papaku a Whai or ‘Whai’s Shoal’ is the Maori name for this area. The identity of Whai however has since been lost.This area lay beyond the city’s western boundary (Franklin Road) and constituted the eastern end of the St Mary’s Bay foreshore. An 1857 British Admiralty map shows New Street reaching down to the shoreline. St Mary’s school for Maori Boys and a Seminary were built at the end of Waitemata Street on the point which divided Freeman’s and\nSt Mary’s Bays. This point too was lost in the reclamation process.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_2.mp3?alt=media&token=54aac86f-5bec-4d49-96d7-0671f8cbbe66"},{"address":"Victoria Park","location":{"latitude":-36.84641758020441,"longitude":174.7539264268768,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052},"placeId":"ChIJ8fLvH_NHDW0RgL-cJGLvAA8","media":[{"content":"### **PT FISHER – ACHERON PT – TE TŌ**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Facheron%20point.webp?alt=media&token=a6fb2b50-283d-4904-a7b1-134946c7610a","type":"img"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Facheron%20point%201.webp?alt=media&token=dcead370-b947-4508-b9af-f01c21e67ffe","type":"img"},{"content":"A headland pā called Te Tō (‘To haul up a waka’) once occupied the eastern headland of Freeman’s Bay above Beaumont Street. Te Towas another of the many satellite fishing stations dotted along the inner Waitemata harbour. Te Tō and its strategic importance is still recited in speeches by Maori on marae in the Auckland today. The first European name of the point was Pt Fisher (after Acting Attorney General and Land Commissioner, Francis Fisher). It was later known as Acheron Point, after H.M.S. Acheron, a survey vessel which charted Auckland’s Waitemata coastline between 1848 and 1851.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_3.mp3?alt=media&token=3d6a7f0c-1acd-4fb0-8c8f-03e9dbef617e"},{"address":"Circability","location":{"longitude":174.7536175262331,"latitude":-36.8473620020494,"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421},"placeId":"ChIJM2npWPJHDW0R_Z4owZeWLRw","media":[{"content":"### **FREEMAN’S BAY – WAIATARAU (WESTERN END)**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ffreemans%20bay%202.webp?alt=media&token=0cbe04c8-4690-4f0e-8a1b-8051b12170c8","type":"img"},{"content":"‘The Reflecting Waters’ is the Maori name for what was once a glistening bay but is now Victoria Park. A freshwater stream called Waikuta (‘Waters of the reed’) once discharged into Waiatarau at about the foot of College Hill while the Tunamau (‘to catch eels’) stream spilled into the bay at about Franklin Road. Both names indicate the abundant natural resources once found here. The origin\nof ‘Freeman’s’ is disputed – it either referred to one of Governor Hobson’s officials, James Stuart Freeman, or free settlers.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_4.mp3?alt=media&token=d3bda8b6-73f7-4a2f-83fa-6056f83f2398"},{"address":"4K Wilkins Street","location":{"longitude":174.75272405985666,"latitude":-36.8493844659179,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052},"placeId":"ChIJ_0ntVe1HDW0RbRIUTZmgPgA","media":[{"content":"### **FREEMAN’S BAY – WAIATARAU (EASTERN END)**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ffreemans%20bay%201.webp?alt=media&token=6a987ff0-ff08-4cce-b171-64aa8e733831","type":"img"},{"content":"On the old shoreline in this vicinity were numerous sawyers,\nboatbuilders and hotels, which disappeared during the western reclamation project carried out by the Auckland Harbour Board in the 1880s. A more modern Maori name for the area was ‘Waipiro’ or ‘stinking water’, mocking the early drunken residents. The ‘Birdcage’ (formerly Rob Roy Hotel) and Freeman’s Hotels both remain. Freeman’s Hotel dates from 1886, but there has been a hotel on this\nsite since around 1860.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_5.mp3?alt=media&token=077251e0-beac-46d6-b0c7-c8222f97019c"},{"address":"23 Centre Street","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052,"latitude":-36.84909685538152,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"longitude":174.75487812708656},"placeId":"ChIJo8JPbgBHDW0RIUkxYtqH2G8","media":[{"content":"### **FREEMAN’S BAY – WAIATARAU (DRAKE STREET)**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ffreemans%20bay%203.jpg?alt=media&token=8c610f0c-40ed-47ba-b5ef-10cdb194c433","type":"img"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ffreemans%20bay%204.webp?alt=media&token=82423f42-f6f3-4cfc-9dd8-011c67ebcdf7","type":"img"},{"content":"Te Koranga (‘the scaffolds’) is the Maori name for this area. Fish and shark would be hung and dried on scaffolds and processed over the summer months before being transported to base camps such as at Maungakiekie for the leaner winter months. The present day Drake Street runs along the former cliff line. Once this street was\nthe western termination of Victoria Street. Drake Street was the mail centre for Freeman’s Bay – there was a twice daily collection from Slatterly’s greengrocery. This waterfront area is redolent of the English navy. Streets here are named after Sir Francis Drake, Admirals Blake, Fanshawe, Halsey and Pakenham.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_6.mp3?alt=media&token=8a94c0ab-1557-4e8b-bf76-258788d50ba5"},{"address":"Sale Street","location":{"latitude":-36.84890561550963,"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"longitude":174.75724833676017},"placeId":"ChIJgRsqHfJHDW0RX4YPRkBEN3s","media":[{"content":"### **FREEMAN’S BAY – WAIKOKOTA**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ffreemans%20bay%205.webp?alt=media&token=65d26ac4-6030-4c6e-a628-b1792244ad09","type":"img"},{"content":"Another name for the bay was Wai Kokota or ‘the place where cockles could be harvested’. This area forms the eastern end of Freemans Bay basin. At the foot of Wellesley Street West are the brick buildings and chimney of the Auckland City Destructor, built in 1905, and since converted to form the Victoria Park Markets. Parts of the original cliff line, and a large coastal pohutakawa tree, survive in the market complex.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_7.mp3?alt=media&token=43445548-f5de-4c6f-88a2-1294ebdebbb9"},{"address":"16-18 Hardinge Street","location":{"latitude":-36.84685848490796,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052,"longitude":174.75799101001215},"placeId":"ChIJqSuUgfFHDW0Rv4huLviU0_Y","media":[{"content":"### **FANSHAWE STREET – TE PANE IRIIRI**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ffanshawe.jpg?alt=media&token=b8520795-8b78-4984-b1e7-8e9b7ae57386","type":"img"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ffanshawe%201.jpg?alt=media&token=2b7e73e8-b398-4bdb-ae8a-9eacd18ed80f","type":"img"},{"content":"The Maori name for the land surrounding the junction of Halsey and Fanshawe streets is Te Paneiriiri, ‘the head hung up’. It apparently was the scene of a victory ceremony performed by the Ngati Poua. Two large timber companies (Leyland O’Brien and the Kauri Timber Company) were located on the seaward side of Fanshawe Street. Tiny Dock Street, which had its own wharf, was situated between\nHardinge Street and the eastern Freeman’s Bay shoreline. The wharf was a casualty of the reclamation. At the end of WW2, Maori were encouraged to move to the city from rural areas. A converted war depot building on the corner of Halsey and Fanshawe Streets became the ‘Maori Community Centre’ substituting as a marae and\ngathering place for the newly arrived Maori. Most famous were the dances and showbands that played there including such greats as Prince Tui Teka and Billy T James. Today the site is owned by local tribe Ngati Whatua.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_8.mp3?alt=media&token=e2d2d2d3-c0cd-4852-b248-84b7d4f6261d"},{"address":"55 Wyndham Street","location":{"latitude":-36.84602611018597,"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052,"longitude":174.76113951967892,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421},"placeId":"ChIJBy_v6_BHDW0RiMYrgqk0ql8","media":[{"content":"### **BRICKFIELD BAY**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fbirckfield%20bay.webp?alt=media&token=0a115d71-ce48-4f89-af66-a89ca2535463","type":"img"},{"content":"This tiny bay was situated below Hardinge Street at the foot of Wyndham Street, and was a mere indentation of the much larger Freeman’s Bay. It marks the site of one of Auckland’s earliest industries, brick making. At the foot of Nelson Street was a small wharf, where fishermen landed their catch. The Maori name is Te Hika a Rama. Rama lit a fire here to warm his grandchild. This was in a time of conflict and the fire inadvertently alerted his Ngati\nWhatua enemies across the harbour to his whereabouts whereupon he was attacked and killed.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_9.mp3?alt=media&token=f7a85def-4ca4-4bd6-9207-c79cfaadd6b0"},{"address":"9 Wolfe Street","location":{"latitude":-36.84489583279821,"longitude":174.76448846966082,"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421},"placeId":"ChIJjXzqI_pHDW0RJCUvIf4cQaE","media":[{"content":"### **SMALE’S POINT – PT STANLEY – NGAUWERA**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fport%20stanley.webp?alt=media&token=44274079-22f2-4c6c-995f-4f50d6bfd62c","type":"img"},{"content":"Smale’s Point separated Freeman’s Bay from Commercial Bay, which was centred at the foot of Queen Street. In 1840 the point was named after Captain Owen Stanley, of H.M.S. Britomart. Shortly afterwards, a Captain David Smale bought a property on the point (‘hauling goods up by windlass’) and the area became known as\nSmale’s Point, until it was cut down in the 1880’s to allow Albert Street to extend into the wharf area. A pā once stood on the old cliff line near the Customhouse corner of Albert Street and Customs Street East. ‘Nga u wera’ means ‘the burnt breasts’ though the origin of the name is not now known.\n\n","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_10.mp3?alt=media&token=31d53712-b24d-429d-9423-51862096d7eb"},{"address":"Swansons Sandwich Bar","location":{"longitude":174.76537368335661,"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052,"latitude":-36.84628652713925,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421},"placeId":"ChIJI3sXTPpHDW0RqcSZm4jj4gE","media":[{"content":"### **SWANSON STREET**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fswanson%20street.webp?alt=media&token=6fabae6c-40fa-437e-852b-8d127633f4b4","type":"img"},{"content":"The high land here defines the inner limits of Commercial or\nStore Bay, the first area of European settlement in 1840. Until 1883 Swanson Street was known as West Queen Street. A Maori track. Te Tarapounamu, led up Swanson Street to a pa on the ridge, possibly Nga Wharau Tako. Mills Lane was named after Thornton, Smith and Firth’s flour mill nearby. Josiah Clifton Firth (1826-1897) became a\nprominent businessman and landowner.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_11.mp3?alt=media&token=748ffb23-8cc7-49f7-ba38-96b4955710a6"},{"address":"Pixelstax","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":-36.84561132198984,"longitude":174.76651093997893},"placeId":"ChIJaTTLMuRHDW0R0Z0R7JVbxXM","media":[{"content":"### **LOWER QUEEN STREET**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Flower%20queen.webp?alt=media&token=4410cb70-f0a3-4277-ada1-548911df324a","type":"img"},{"content":"This portion of Queen Street is built on the first land to be reclaimed from the sea, in 1859. Fort Street (originally ‘Fore’ Street) marks the original shoreline and the centre of Commercial Bay, which was chosen as the commercial hub of the new capital by SurveyorGeneral Felton Matthew, in 1841, and has remained so today. Nearby Shortland Crescent was the first ‘main’ street in Auckland.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_12.mp3?alt=media&token=b1ac0d6e-00bc-40d1-90a8-9f95b00af42d"},{"address":"Barrowclough S J","location":{"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"longitude":174.76731818506306,"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052,"latitude":-36.846724586582674},"placeId":"ChIJo27hhPtHDW0RV1eWscT12XA","media":[{"content":"### **FORT/GORE STREETS**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ffort%20street%201.jpg?alt=media&token=f95255fe-ebc4-424d-8c0a-76f5644641a3","type":"img"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ffort%20street.webp?alt=media&token=06e6514a-6254-4671-b531-237bdfa18ad3","type":"img"},{"content":"Fort Street led along the original shoreline. There were steps up the hill to the Britomart Barracks. The Maori name for this area is Te One Panea, ‘beach of the heads in line’. It is said the heads of slain enemies were stuck on posts from one end to the other of the foreshore.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_13.mp3?alt=media&token=89d6e9aa-0abe-4648-879b-add44d6e9f09"},{"address":"54 Customs Street East","location":{"longitude":174.77001843349527,"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052,"latitude":-36.84525735923156,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421},"placeId":"ChIJa6dGJfxHDW0RxXMWnT1GEyU","media":[{"content":"### **BRITOMART PLACE**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fbritomart%20place.jpg?alt=media&token=286520ce-d752-462d-9b65-3697f25a65ca","type":"img"},{"content":"This is a comparatively recent place name, given to the street to the east of the Britomart transport terminal. The name was taken from the demolished Point Britomart. H.M.S. Britomart was a British brig which visited Auckland in the 1840’s. Nearby was the Metropolitan Church of St Paul (Anglican) at Emily Place. St Pauls was known as the ‘soldier’s church’ as it was attended by the regiments at nearby Fort Britomart and the Albert Barracks\n(Albert Park).","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_14.mp3?alt=media&token=d201cd79-e672-4fe1-875a-243d31ef31a3"},{"address":"Evo Cycles Britomart","location":{"latitude":-36.84465634831861,"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"longitude":174.7715741147239},"placeId":"ChIJIb6d2P1HDW0R9sQmjzWxFO8","media":[{"content":"### **PT BRITOMART**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fpoint%20britomart.jpg?alt=media&token=cd7dea94-ef6c-47c1-8232-bcb5902eecd7","type":"img"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fpoint%20britomart%201.jpg?alt=media&token=1399edda-cabd-4066-b075-7c8754e944e0","type":"img"},{"content":"This site marks the end of Point Britomart, a headland which\nwas known firstly as Flagstaff Hill, and then shortly afterwards, Pt. Britomart. Auckland’s first European fort was established on the point on the site of an old pa, Te Rerenga-oraiti (‘the leap of the survivors’) in 1840. The ancient name describes two similar incidents when attacking Ngati Whatua forces drove their foe off the end of the headland with only few surviving the leap into the\nWaitemata harbour below. The headland was demolished in the 1880’s and used as fill in nearby Official Bay","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_15.mp3?alt=media&token=ed3a42ff-beba-4e4c-b1ba-8aee23e6ff12"},{"address":"Saigonz","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052,"longitude":174.77324845695043,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":-36.846545506435135},"placeId":"ChIJKwa2YgdIDW0RTbJVq5Dqejg","media":[{"content":"### **OFFICIAL BAY – WYNYARD PIER**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fwynyard%20pier%20.webp?alt=media&token=80a5200f-a1bc-465f-baba-943a9add343a","type":"img"},{"content":"Te Hororoa (‘the slipping away’) is a place in Official Bay. Prior to the 17th century invasion of Ngati Whatua part of the pa- here slipped into the sea with a number of people perishing. This was taken as a bad omen foretelling the invasion from the north-west. Official Bay (locally known as Exclusion Bay) was named after the government officials who resided here. These officials were\nmembers of Hobson’s Crown Colony government, established in Auckland in 1840. Wynyard Pier, a timber wharf, was erected in 1851, funded largely by private subscription. It was named after Colonel Robert H Wynyard who settled in the bay in Felton Mathew’s old home","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_16.mp3?alt=media&token=22ad4528-4923-41b3-996c-bc73df3a873c"},{"address":"10 Ronayne Street","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":-36.84899781055963,"longitude":174.77471835267184},"placeId":"Ei0xMCBSb25heW5lIFN0cmVldCwgQXVja2xhbmQgMTAxMCwgTmV3IFplYWxhbmQiGhIYChQKEgmJ7RzEB0gNbRFifUvOfbVoThAK","media":[{"content":"### **MECHANIC’S BAY – TE TOANGAROA**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fmechanics%20bay.webp?alt=media&token=77c7f8ed-0db4-4bb3-a12f-27dea0cc6a61","type":"img"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fmechanics%20bay%201.jpg?alt=media&token=9ed9ff79-0299-4f1a-bbd7-27103705028d","type":"img"},{"content":"Te Toangaroa (‘the dragging of waka a long distance’) is the Maori name for the old bay here. The tide went out along way so if one missed the high tide it lead to an arduous and unwanted task to haul waka to the beach at present-day Beach Road. This site marks the location of the dwellings of the first ‘mechanics’ or workmen who were employed by the government to build the\nfirst houses in the new capital. Here also were Auckland’s first sawmills, boatyards, and a rope walk. Gradual reclamation, completed as late as the 1920s, provided the site for the Railway Station and container wharves.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_17.mp3?alt=media&token=26712502-3f47-4687-9dfb-b2164d2cac23"},{"address":"5 Churchill Street","location":{"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":-36.851076843193496,"longitude":174.77415306658676,"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052},"placeId":"ChIJBR5NFwhIDW0RXi86UDUntI4","media":[{"content":"### **CONSTITUTION HILL – TE REUROA**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fconstitution%20hill.jpg?alt=media&token=3d31cb39-6598-4776-a137-97f2e29181c6","type":"img"},{"content":"Auckland’s first Parliament Buildings were located just over the brow of this hill, on land behind the extensions to the High Court. The hill is reached by an access way from the old shoreline below, and is flanked by Alten Road. Te Reuroa pa, ‘the longer outer palisading’ stood on the Supreme Court site, and also extended to the foreshore. On Beach Road at the foot of Constitution Hill was a Maori Reserve. A Maori hostel built by Ngati Whatua was established here to house Maori traders who arrived from all over New Zealand. In 1848 Maori delivered 20,000 tons of potatoes,\napples, peaches and wheat at this place.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_18.mp3?alt=media&token=23f2890f-bd03-432b-ade7-0e5541f69e06"},{"address":"65 Parnell Rise","location":{"longitude":174.77700387817413,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":-36.851256998671076,"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052},"placeId":"ChIJ_8idjQhIDW0RuitrT45JAh0","media":[{"content":"### **AUGUSTUS TERRACE**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Faugustus%20terrace.webp?alt=media&token=c421a386-996b-4285-a43b-41ca76a6b8b5","type":"img"},{"content":"This area, at the eastern end of the original Mechanic’s Bay,\noverlooked a tidal inlet where boatbuilding was carried on. The Waipapa, a tidal creek meaning ‘the waters of the flats’, flowed down from the Parnell ridge. Augustus Terrace, formerly Selwyn Terrace, was named after Bishop George Augustus Selwyn.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_19.mp3?alt=media&token=8bf76741-e534-44b8-9979-4d649ae29cd6"},{"address":"101 The Strand","location":{"latitude":-36.849720687668054,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"longitude":174.78004445619243,"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052},"placeId":"ChIJU1HLkwVIDW0RqbOxEXYagAY","media":[{"content":"### **THE STRAND**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fthe%20strand.jpg?alt=media&token=daa82716-2f69-43a4-8fa6-62421bb961b7","type":"img"},{"content":"This marks the original beachline. Pt Dunlop was the landward extremity, named after a British Naval Commander, Robert Dunlop, of H.M.S. Favorite. It was later renamed Barnabas Point, after St Barnabas Church which once stood here but was moved to Mt Eden. The point was cut back in the 1870s.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_20.mp3?alt=media&token=e513a373-4c41-4df2-8265-e79b7b4d0510"},{"address":"19 Kenwyn Street","location":{"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"longitude":174.7840834063658,"latitude":-36.85012616099341,"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052},"placeId":"ChIJZWlerBpIDW0RRMrAzi8qclU","media":[{"content":"### **ST GEORGE’S BAY – TE WAI O TAIKEHU**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fst%20georges%201.jpg?alt=media&token=fa3d9bec-bc9e-4151-83a9-3b4f8ce9c0d2","type":"img"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fst%20georges.webp?alt=media&token=dd39f6bb-024b-4269-964a-be3e4d1a9fb4","type":"img"},{"content":"Taikehu is the ancestor for the ancient Ngai Tai tribe. Taikehu arrived from the pacific islands aboard the famed Tainui waka and named a number of places in the Auckland region including Nga Tuaira a Taikehu (‘the dorsal fins of Taikehu’) being the 3 peaks of Rangitoto. This was originally known as Cooper’s Bay, after the first Colonial Treasurer, George Cooper, then George’s Bay, and finally St\nGeorge’s Bay. St George’s Bay Road led down to the shoreline where remnants of the early cliff survive. The Maori name for the area is Waiataikehu or waiakehu, ‘waters of Taikehu’. St George’s Bay was cut off from the sea in 1920 and then reclaimed.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_21.mp3?alt=media&token=bf1d5c9a-96ba-4838-8a49-715187c3c1f4"},{"address":"Fred Amber Lookout","location":{"longitude":174.78651310898803,"latitude":-36.84862632151729,"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421},"placeId":"ChIJyb8BnfdJDW0RXy7lFbYKIQ0","media":[{"content":"### **CAMPBELL’S POINT**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fcampbells%20point.jpg?alt=media&token=a6b7f21a-81f9-418c-a83c-eb00731ae12f","type":"img"},{"content":"This Point was named after John Logan Campbell (1817-1912) sometimes known as the ‘Father of Auckland’. He was one of the first settlers to purchase land in Auckland, and was Mayor of the City and a local Member of Parliament. His handsome house Kilbryde stood on the Point but was demolished in 1924. The Point itself was cut down in 1929, enabling the waterfront road to proceed and Gladstone\nRoad to curve around directly into the Strand.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_22.mp3?alt=media&token=39344d37-2167-451c-b46b-1808ad7b7be8"},{"address":"25 Judges Bay Road","location":{"longitude":174.7880965535762,"latitude":-36.84986261749261,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"longitudeDelta":0.1773310700361052},"placeId":"ChIJv_arBBpIDW0RFSKGEXiV_E4","media":[{"content":"### **JUDGE’S BAY**","type":"text"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fjudges%20bay%201.jpg?alt=media&token=5941238b-5d6a-4731-bcb9-09c065a027b8","type":"img"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fjusges%20bay%202.webp?alt=media&token=eb671617-b47f-4587-be6d-f1e6fffe1376","type":"img"},{"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Fjudges%20bay.webp?alt=media&token=98191d4b-dbfd-4d92-8864-03f308f16062","type":"img"},{"content":"In 1841 Judge Martin and Attorney General Swainson arrived in Auckland with houses in prefabricated sections. Swainson built on the west side and the Martins on the east of this bay. The little chapel of St. Stephen’s built in 1857 is all that remains of this time. Known as Taurarua ‘the two ropes’ it is thought that this name referred to the two administrators of British justice.","type":"text"}],"ttsFile":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2F78Hn9z439t4J1zvWrk2H%2Ftts_23.mp3?alt=media&token=fc9d9780-4810-47e3-93d1-ae3a479ca9f2"}]