VIEW OF DUNEDIN FROM "CHURCH HILL," looking towards Ocean Beach, 1851. A watercolour painting by Geo. B. Shaw in the Hocken collection. All the portion of the harbour seen has since been reclaimed and built upon. The key plan to Mr Shaw’s picture reproduced at top was prepared by Mrs Hocken in 1892. Numbers of interest are — (1c) original portion of First Church; (lb) library and vestry added; (la) final addition. (2) Schoolmaster's section, now site of Sargood’s, Dowling street frontage; (4) present site of Bank of New Zealand; (5) site of present A.M.P. building; (7) site to-day of National Bank of New Zealand; (10 to 20) north side of High street; (22 to 25) Hope street; (28) course of Princes street; (29) present site of Cargill’s Monument; (31 to 32) Water street to-day; (34) present site of Chief Post Office, Kettle’s house at time of sketching; (36) then Captain Cargill’s office, about Liverpool street; (38) "Johnny" Jones’s store, now site of R. Wilson and Co., Bond street; (39) Rev. Dr Burns’s manse, now comer Princes and Jetty streets; (46) Captain Cargill’s house, between the Carroll and Stafford streets of to-day; (54) course of Stafford street; (55) Manse street; (57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 68, 69, 26, and 27) and vacant sections adjoining formed a block bounded byPrinces, High, and Manse streets; (61) present site of Wain’s Hotel; (66) where 'Evening Star' first printed, 12 years after date of painting; (67) site of St. Matthew’s Church; (70, 71, 72) “Little Paisley” now Southern Cemetery; (73) Hillside road, now Main South road; (76) Forbury; (78) The Swamp, now Anderson’s Bay, St. Kilda, etc.; (80) Forbury sandhills, now St. Clair.
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Evening Star, Issue 23503, 17 February 1940, Page 29 (Supplement)
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278VIEW OF DUNEDIN FROM "CHURCH HILL," looking towards Ocean Beach, 1851. A watercolour painting by Geo. B. Shaw in the Hocken collection. All the portion of the harbour seen has since been reclaimed and built upon. The key plan to Mr Shaw’s picture reproduced at top was prepared by Mrs Hocken in 1892. Numbers of interest are—(1c) original portion of First Church; (lb) library and vestry added; (la) final addition. (2) Schoolmaster's section, now site of Sargood’s, Dowling street frontage; (4) present site of Bank of New Zealand; (5) site of present A.M.P. building; (7) site to-day of National Bank of New Zealand; (10 to 20) north side of High street; (22 to 25) Hope street; (28) course of Princes street; (29) present site of Cargill’s Monument; (31 to 32) Water street to-day; (34) present site of Chief Post Office, Kettle’s house at time of sketching; (36) then Captain Cargill’s office, about Liverpool street; (38) "Johnny" Jones’s store, now site of R. Wilson and Co., Bond street; (39) Rev. Dr Burns’s manse, now comer Princes and Jetty streets; (46) Captain Cargill’s house, between the Carroll and Stafford streets of to-day; (54) course of Stafford street; (55) Manse street; (57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 68, 69, 26, and 27) and vacant sections adjoining formed a block bounded by-Princes, High, and Manse streets; (61) present site of Wain’s Hotel; (66) where 'Evening Star' first printed, 12 years after date of painting; (67) site of St. Matthew’s Church; (70, 71, 72) “Little Paisley” now Southern Cemetery; (73) Hillside road, now Main South road; (76) Forbury; (78) The Swamp, now Anderson’s Bay, St. Kilda, etc.; (80) Forbury sandhills, now St. Clair. Evening Star, Issue 23503, 17 February 1940, Page 29 (Supplement)
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