Locations within this tour
Stop 1 Main street looking north
This street used to be known as Main street. It housed many shops as it does today, but the traffic was a lot different.
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Stop 2 Goldie street / AC Peacock Produce Merchant
Shiploads have not been the only general merchandise shop on this site. The business became Peacock and Lewis in 1923. The building was destroyed by ...
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Stop 3 Hotel Federal
The very first hotel on this site was a weatherboard building called the Royal Hotel. Mr John Bauld was the first licensee in 1892-93. In ...
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Stop 4 The ‘Bottom Don’ merchants
The Wynyard branch of the River Don Trading Company was established about 1904. Being a large establishment and able to bulk buy goods, the company ...
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Stop 5 National Stores
The very first hotel on this site was a weatherboard building called the Royal Hotel. Mr John Bauld was the first licensee in 1892-93. In ...
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Stop 6 Looking South along ‘Main’ street
This streetscape has changed a bit, and so has the traffic. The sounds you would hear along this street would have been very different from ...
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Stop 7 Sadler solicitors
There's not much here these days but at one time, this part of Goldie street was known as "The Esplanade" and was filled with a ...
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Stop 8 Wynyard Wharf
In the mid-1850s trading and fishing vessels are recorded as having been moored in the Inglis River at spots from the Cape Road bridge back ...
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Stop 9 JH Stutterd’s Store
The very first hotel on this site was a weatherboard building called the Royal Hotel. Mr John Bauld was the first licensee in 1892-93. In ...
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Stop 10 JH Stutterd’s Store and residence
The very first hotel on this site was a weatherboard building called the Royal Hotel. Mr John Bauld was the first licensee in 1892-93. In ...
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Stop 11 The Old Wynyard Courthouse
If these walls could talk they would have some interesting tales to tell of rogues and robbers, and administrators of the great and the good!
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Stop 12 The Old Post Office Wynyard
Find out what Gavin is about to get up to. This part of Goldie Street used to be known as "the Esplanade' and has alot ...
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Stop 13 Loading the ‘Pauline’ Camp Creek Wynyard
This part of Camp creek was a lot busier than it is today. It would be hardly recognisable to people who lived and worked in ...
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Stop 14 Mr Slater the Boat builder’s cottage, Camp Creek
Mr Slater the boatbuilder used to build his boats on this site- it was a thriving little enterprise for many years. Prior to that, this ...
Location Detail Walk Specifics
- Complete walk - Allow 90 min
- Actual walk time - Allow 60 min
- Comfortable walking shoes recommended
- Cafes along the way
- Printable Map available for this tour
This tour will take you on a hidden history tour of Wynyard by foot, scooter or bike.
Stand in the position that corresponds to the stop picture. Select the corresponding picture on your map to launch a short video vignette revealing Wynyard’s hidden history at that site. Pictures with a blue frame can be tapped to access the video vignette.
Alternatively if you have a printed paper map scan the QR code linked to the site number.
Take a moment to follow the footsteps of those that have gone before you. Who were they? What were their lives like? What were their dreams, and hopes? We are separated from them by time, but connected by the place within which we stand and observe. Their history lives among us.
Enjoy discovering our hidden history!