FIND THESE STEPS – Just off 11 Salamanca Road, at McKenzie Terrace.

Steps into Mount Street Cemetery..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIND THESE STEPS – Start from McKenzie Terrace at Victoria University,  and from Boyd-Wilson field off The Terrace.

Map Source: openstreetmap.org

This is a bit of a trek – from near Salamanca Road to nearly the end of The Terrace, going through the lower level of Victoria University.

Along the way – great views, and a memorial to a lost tree.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIND THESE STEPS – At 20 Dorking Road., and from the lower level from Prince of Wales Park

Ms Irvine-Smith notes that Dorking Street’s name comes from Dorking in Surrey, England.

Somewhere in the biography of Shirley Smith by Sarah Gaitanos there is a mention that Bill Sutch grew up on Dorking Street, but I can’t find it exactly.

Here, the Dorking Street steps are a lovely entrance into the Prince of Wales park and past the small, but usually busy, community garden.

Dorking Street, Boxhill. Reproduced in The Changing City – Wellington by Rosemary Barrington (1974, Reed Education publisher),

undated photo credited to the National Library.

 

In every worthwhile effort there will be controversy. And so it is with steps. These are included here under a cloud. They are each more pathway over a hill than steps over a hill but even so there are steps. And the views are spectacular.

NORTHLAND ROAD ZIGZAG

Find these steps – Just before Northland Village, at 51 Northland Road.

Northland is named for Viscount Northland, writes Ms Irvine-Smith, and he was killed in World War I. His father, Earl of Ranfurly, was New Zealand’s Governor from 1897 to 1904.

Steps! Disused, covered with foliage, but steps even so.

 

ATHENS ROAD, MIRAMAR

Find these steps – Beside Holy Cross School, at 2 – 6 Para Street, and from the top at 36 Otaki Street.

There they are! Steps leading to a tiny, tiny little bit of park with a great view and appreciation of that view in evidence by the many beer bottles left behind.

 

PINELANDS AVENUE, SEATOUN

 Find these steps – In Seatoun, opposite the ferry, at the end of Pinelands Avenue, and from the top at 7 Fettes Crescent.

It’s a beautiful pathway, a nice tramp, and the views are fantastic – over Wellington Harbour and to the site of the sinking of the Wahine.

But it is a stretch to include this pathway in a collection of steps – but here goes. There near the top you can see the remains of steps that were there before. So, steps.

 

 

 

 

 

FIND THESE STEPS – Between 41 and 39 Bombay Street, and at the top at the end of Bankot Crescent at 50 Bankot Crescent.

 

 

FIND THESE STEPS -At the end of Bombay Street, between 8 and 6 Bombay, and at the top between 8 and 6 Quetta Street.

Ms Irvine-Smith doesn’t include this street or the steps in her book, The Streets of My City, but the tragic earthquake in Quetta, Baluchistan, India,in 1935. may have prompted the name of this street in 1940.

Evening Post, 19 November 1941, CC-NZ-by-NC-SA

These steps could be a bit of a danger.

 

 

 

 

FIND THESE STEPS – at 22 Ohiro Road and at 6 Maarama Crescent at the top.

This unnamed set of steps and walkway arrive directly on Ohiro Road, with no pathway on the street, and the busy traffic makes finding the steps rather risky.

FIND THESE STEPS – Between the Northland Surgery and the bus stop in Northland Village, and at the top of Governor Road.