Notes: North Street was a short narrow lane which ran east off the top of Tory street in Te Aro (South-Central Wellington)between Francis Street and Tui Street just down from Buckle Street. It is shown on Thomas Ward's survey map of 1891 from which you can see it had a number of small tightly packed houses with the "Prince of Wales" pub on the corner. This was quite a notorious part of town, in its time, with problems associated with over-crowding and poverty (e.g. crime, drunkenness etc) . It was largely a Roman Catholic area (note the neighbouring Catholic school and church) of Irish extraction though a Chinese community also settled close-by in Haining Street. The area began to be cleared in the post-war period (essentially bulldozed in a series of urban renewal / slum clearances programmes).
Source - Gábor Tóth
Local and New Zealand History Specialist
Wellington City Libraries
Thomas Ward's survey map sourced from Wellington City Archives. OpenStreetMap
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