Birkenhead, New Zealand

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Birkenhead is a part of North Shore City, one of several cities in the metropolitan region of Auckland in New Zealand. It lies on the north shore of the Waitemata Harbour, four kilometers northwest of the city center of Auckland.

Birkenhead was up to the annexation in North Shore City was a separate town and borough. This included the areas of Birkenhead Point, Highbury, Chatswood, Verrans Corner, Birkdale and Beach Haven. After the merger is less clear whether " Birkenhead " also Verrans Corner, Birkdale and Beach Haven covers.

The southern part of the suburb of Birkenhead Point, is situated on a headland between the Chelsea Bay and Little Shoal Bay, one kilometer west of the northern entrance to the Auckland Harbour Bridge. To the north are the suburbs of Northcote and Highbury, west of Chatswood and the corporate campus of Chelsea. In the south-east, south and south- facing boundary of the site to the Waitemata Harbour.

History

Birkenhead was described in 1883 in the New Zealand Herald as " wild and desolate ", it was separated from the city by the Auckland harbor and sparsely populated. However, it was chosen in 1882 as the site of New Zealand's only sugar refinery. 1883 began construction of the Chelsea Sugar Refinery later. The company built houses for many of its workers, and so the suburb Birkenhead was created. The refinery was for many years the major employer of the area and still exists today.

As the former location of kauri forests camped here temporarily Dumdigger who dug the fossil dammar resin of trees. Auckländer families went on the weekend by ferry across the Waitemata Harbour to dig in the fields around Birkenhead to resin. Thus they caused damage to the roads and farms, so that the resin search was regulated by the city council.

1883 an agricultural estate was named " Mayfield " auctioned and allocated in the order in plots. Birkenhead may have been named after the town of the same name on the River Mersey opposite Liverpool. The English Birkenhead was at that time, known for its elegant and expensive houses, its lake and its picturesque park, which was copied in New York's Central Park.

Birkenhead was one of several areas around the North Shore, which were popular with the middle class as residential areas. This usually professionals or businessmen, used as a commuter boat service for the Auckland Harbour to Auckland. The wharf in Devonport, Northcote and Birkenhead were very busy until 1959, the construction of the Auckland Harbour Bridge, the situation changed radically. The ferry to Birkenhead, however, was taken in the 1980s to service and won with increasing congestion on the bridge again strongly in popularity.

Important people

• Clement Lindley Wragge, the meteorologist who introduced the naming of cyclones for individuals who spent his last years in the Awanui Street No. 8
• Son Rudall, former New Zealand filmmakers ( Rewi 's Last Stand )
• Hone Tuwhare, poet and short-term member of the City Council of Birkenhead

Education

Birkenhead has two elementary schools, the Birkenhead School and Verran Primary School, both of which are koeadukative elementary schools for grades 1 to 6 with a decile rating of 10 and 7, respectively, and 341 and 243 students.

The Birkenhead School was founded in 1919 as a branch of the Northcote School in Auckland, the Verran Primary School was founded in 1964. .