Following on from my previous column regarding the 18 surviving maps of Devonport from around the mid-1880s, the footprints of the buildings are shown and sometimes construction details. Dwellings, stables, workshops, and outhouses are all included, with annotations naming ratepayers, and the Road Board/Borough Council valuation figures.
Map 10 shows the odd house focused on Edward Street (now Calliope Road), Anne Street, Clarence Street, an unnamed Fleet Street, and Victoria Road.
Map 11 shows several houses in Albert Street, Church Street, Mount Victoria Road (now included in Kerr Street), Kerr Street, Victoria Terrace (now part of St Aubyn Street), and St Aubyn Street. Allotments on the south side of Albert Road from what was Victoria Road to Church Street were available for sale from January 1885, marketed as the Rosebank Estate. Devonport School, dating from 1870, is shown at the corner of Mount Victoria and Victoria Terrace.
Map 12 shows many houses in Lake (formerly part of Victoria) Road, Mozley (now Mozeley) Street, Cameron Street (now Patuone Avenue), Albert Street, and an unnamed road leading to the gasworks. It started operating in May 1883, with its gasometer, stoke house and brickworks on the foreshore.
Map 13 shows quite a bit of housing in the block formed by Clarence Street, Victoria Road, Mount Victoria Road, Kerr Street, Rattray Street, Buchanan Street, Grey (later Mays) Street, Duder Street (then unnamed), and Beach Road (now King Edward Parade). The old Devonport Library (which opened 10 July 1878) was on the western corner of what is now King Edward Parade and Duder Street. It was later replaced by the Devonport Free Library at the bottom of Victoria Road from August 1887. Allotments in the Mays Street area were available from 1859.
Map 14 shows part or all of Kerr Street, Church Street, Albert Street, Domain Street, Burgess Road, Beach Road and Stanley Street (now Cambridge Terrace). Duder’s Wharf at the bottom of Church Street encouraged the development of housing in this area, particularly down Church Street and around Holy Trinity Church. Along the foreshore are both a shipbuilding yard and a timber yard. Willow Grove (famous for strawberries and cream) and various Alison family dwellings are also shown.
Map 15 shows part or all of Church Street, Cracroft Street (unnamed) and Vauxhall Road. Several streets between Church and Vauxhall have all now disappeared, and most of the housing is at the corner of Church Street and Vauxhall Road. Map 16 shows 16 houses along Albert Street, showing part of Church Street, Everest Street, and Derby Street (unnamed).
Map 17 shows part or all of Beach Road, Stanley Street, William Street (now Eton Avenue), North Head (now Takarunga) Road, Artillery Road (now Jubilee Avenue) and Cheltenham Road. Most of the housing is close to the foreshore. Allotments in different parts of Cheltenham were offered for sale from the mid-1860s, but settlement was slow. Following the fear of Russian invasion from 1885, a torpedo store was built on the foreshore at Torpedo Bay, and this has been added in pencil.
Map 18 shows just 12 houses around part or all of Beaconsfield Street, Cheltenham Road, Cheltenham Terrace, Lake Road (now Tainui Road), Stanley Street, Burgess Road, Vauxhall Road, and William Street (now Eton Avenue).
Map 19 included the northern parts of Cheltenham, Map 20 included Vauxhall, Map 21 included Takarunga North Head, and Map 22 included the golf course, at that time the racecourse. Also, Stanley Point was excluded altogether from these maps, along with Narrow Neck and the Victoria Park estate around Ngataringa and Aramoana Roads. Allotments in Victoria Park were available from October 1882.
