Day Thirty Five Roslyn

 Today I had a good workout by walking some steep streets in Roslyn.  I walked 9 streets. 

453. Selkirk Street
454. Littlebourne Road
455. Melrose Street
456. Avon Street
457. Tweed Street
458. Fifield Street
459. Garfield Avenue
460. Pacific Street

461. Merlin Street

The first street I walked was down the hill on Selkirk Street and onto Littlebourne Road whose residents get a good view of the harbour.  It was great to realise that I had walked all the streets that I could see on the other side of the harbour. 

From Littlebourne Road, I followed the streets that skirted around the edge of the town belt where I had walked a couple of days ago.  These streets are quite steep and I had to walk up and down them but they also have some great views  looking towards the end of the harbour. .

One of the benefits of walking on the hills are the fantastic views and I am enjoying seeing Dunedin from different angles as I move around the city. 

 Of course what goes down must also go up and Pacific Street was one of the streets I walked up.  It is a particularly steep street with steps and a hand rail on both sides.  I was very glad to get to the top. 

Something interesting I saw on my walk today was this neat police phone box letter box.  It is quite large and would hold a lot of mail.

And lastly this is the map showing where I have walked so far in my challenge to walk every street in Dunedin.  I have walked all the streets coloured in red. 

Distance walked:  5.6 km      Walking time  1 hr 05 mins    

Total distance: 296.8 km       Total walking  55 hr 41 mins

Day Thirty Three Roslyn

Today I finished a number of streets that I had already walked most of and have already counted so there weren't many streets to count today.  I walked 6 streets

441. City Road
442. Ross Street

443. Stuart Street Extension
444. Strathmore Crescent
445. Erin Street
446. Sligo Terrace

Today I walked past the Observatory in Ross Street, which was established in 1922 by the Dunedin Astronomical Society and is named after local astronomers Arthur Beverly and John Campbell Begg,  The observatory is open to the public on Sunday nights.

The observatory is in Robin Hood Park which is on the edge of the Town Belt and my walk down City Road took me down the hill and through the Town Belt.

I walked part of Arthur Street and past two schools.  The first is Arthur Street School which is the oldest primary school in Otago.  The school was started on the Phillip Laing which is one of the first sailing ships to arrive in Dunedin in 1847.  Once in Dunedin, the school was opened at a waterfront site in 1848 before being moved up the hill. Arthur Street School moved to it's present site in 1877.  

Next door to Arthur Street School is Otago Boys High School.  Originally known as Dunedin High School and opened 1863, Otago Boys High School moved to it's present site in 1885 making it one of New Zealand's oldest boys secondary schools.

From Arthur Street, I turned the corner and walked up the Stuart Street Extension to the Roslyn Over Bridge which was constructed in 1954.  The views from the over bridge make the climb up the Stuart Street Extension worth the effort.  

From the over bridge I walked back through the Roslyn shopping area and down Erin Street which is a narrow one way street that comes out on Sligo Terrace.  The view from the Sligo Terrace playground  looking towards Mt Cargill was also worth taking the time to stop for.  

Today on my walk I saw this memorial in the Arthur Street Playground, beside Arthur Street School.  I found it particularly interesting is that, what is now a playground was the first cemetery in Dunedin.  The first burial on this site was in 1846 and as the city grew quickly, the site became unsuitable for a cemetery and in 1865 the cemetery was closed with the remains being relocated.  This memorial was erected in 1880 and has the names of around 60 known burials at the site, many of them are children who died at sea on their way to New Zealand. 

The other interesting thing I noticed about the Arthur Street Playground is the size of the trees. They are huge! Records show that the trees were planted around 1870.  This picture shows the size of one of the trees compared to the memorial in the bottom left corner.

Distance walked:  5.0 km      Walking time  57 mins    

Total distance: 283.2 km       Total walking  53 hr 04 mins

Day Thirty One Roslyn

 I enjoyed my walk today and despite being on the hill, it was reasonably easy walking .  Today I walked 16 streets.

410. Epsilon Street
411. Gamma Street
412. Northview Crescent
413. Delta Street
414. Beta Street
415. Belgrave Crescent
416. Lundie Street
417. Gowry Place
418. Ann Street
419. Charlotte Street
420. Sheen Street
421. Scarba Street
422. Leven Street
423. Kilgour Street
424. Lawson Street
425. Bruce Street

I started by walking along Highgate and the first point of interest I passed is the World Mission Society Church of God. This church was sold to a Korean religious group in 2012 after the Roslyn and Maori Hill parishes merged.  I have been able to see this church from many parts of the city and it was good to finally get to walk past it. 

From the church it wasn't far till I was onto Epsilion Street and then the next few streets followed on the Greek alphabet theme.  From Gamma Street, I walked along Northview Crescent, and the name suggests that there will be a good view and I am pleased to say that Northview Crescent has a great view of Wakari and Flagstaff.  I have not walked on any of these streets yet.

As I made my way along Highgate the streets became narrower as I  worked my way through the streets behind the Roslyn Shopping Centre.  Part of the shopping centre is the old Roslyn Fire Station which is no longer a fire station and has been converted to a coffee shop.  

Once past the Roslyn Fire Station I was walking the streets on the other side of Highgate where the residents get good views looking towards the harbour. 

As I neared the end of my walk I walked along Lawson Street which is a short street that borders the Belleknowes Golf Club.  It is worth stopping here as the views are superb.

There were a few interesting things I saw on my walk today.  I passed two painted telephone cabinets.  The first is this one at the top of Falcon Street which commemorates Robert Falcon Scott and the  British Antarctic Expedition that he led to the South Pole 

 

And there is this telephone cabinet painted in commemoration of Dunedin becoming a UNESCO Creative City of Literature.  The people painted on the cabinet are writers and poets who had a connection with Dunedin at sometime in their life. 

I saw this lovely gate that matches the house behind it and I also spotted this sign that was awarded to  Highgate in 1994 for being the champion non-grass verge long street.  This is the first of these signs I have seen but then it is nearly 30 years old so maybe other winning streets have not kept their signs.

Distance walked:  9.2 km      Walking time  1 hr 44 mins    

Total distance: 269.6 km       Total walking  50 hr 32 mins