Today I finished walking a number of streets that I had done part of yesterday. I walked 24 streets
313. Haig Street
314. Iona Street
315. Henderson Street
316. Mailer Street
317. Brunel Street
318. Mosgiel Street
319. Lawrence Street
320. Havelock Street
321. Durham Street
322. Whitby Street
323. Galloway Street
324. Argyle Street
325. Ventor Street
326. Springhill Road
327. Crosby Street
328. Cook Street
329. Picardy Street
330. Lesney Street
331. Maryhill Terrace
332. Mitchell Avenue
333. Crewe Street
334. Macnee Street
335. Laurie Street
The first street I walked today was Glenpark Avenue where a cable car operated in straight line from the back of the Mornington Cable Car House on Mailer Street from 1885 to 1955. It was the world's steepest public tramline and was nicknamed 'the big dipper' as it first went steeply down then back up Glenpark Avenue similar to a roller coaster. Today there is not much to see where the cable car went and the steepest part now has houses with steep steps up to Mailer Street.
Glenpark Avenue goes to the bottom of the very steep part before becoming Haig Street and moving around and up the hill with a couple of short streets branching off. It was good to walk along Iona Street to be able to look onto Glenpark Avenue and see where the cable car went.
It is interesting to compare how the area looks now compared to the turn of the century when the tramline was operating. Mostly the houses have changed but there are some buildings that still remain.
Once onto Mailer Street I had a look around the Cable Car House where a group called the Light Rail Trust are hoping to restore the cable car line down High Street and have cable cars running again in Dunedin. The Cable Car House was not open today so I could only look in from the outside. Also on Mailer Street is the historic Mornington Post Office which was built in 1905 and operated as a post office until it's closure in 1990.
After Mailer Street, I was onto walking the streets behind the main shopping area of Mornington, which are steep and narrow. In English Avenue I found a hidden gem where part of the children's playground has a seat that has a lovely outlook towards the harbour.
One thing I noticed on my walk today was the number of churches. This one in Glenpark Avenue is an impressive church. It was opened in 1881 as the Mornington Presbyterian Church and operated for 127 years until it closed in 2008.
Also of note is the lych gate to St Mary's Anglican Church on the corner of Lawrence and Whitby Street.
And to finish today is a Google map of the streets (in red) of the streets I have walked so far. This is about 20% of the streets that I need to walk and does not include the Aramoana and Middlemarch streets that I have walked.
Distance walked: 10.2 km Walking time 2 hr 2mins
Total distance: 218.3 km Total walking 40 hr 46 mins
