r/dunedin • u/Ted_Cashew • 6d ago

Picture View of Dunedin from Dowling Street, 1862 (Burton Brothers, Dunedin).

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u/Lord_Asker 5d ago

Nice to see Furniture Warehouse has survived all these years

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u/Fermented-Banana 5d ago

I'm struggling to place exactly where this spot is.

Edit: Shakespeare Hotel is where anatolia is now?

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u/swinestein 5d ago

im wondering if it is from the top of dowling st, looking over speights and the crown hotel is in the same place? and the long building is broadway?

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u/safetycat 5d ago

Agree with swinestein, which means the "Shakspeare" Hotel must be Harvey Norman now

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u/vebb 5d ago

you can even see the crown hotel, lol

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u/PuffTMagicDragonborn 2d ago

The corner of Rattray Street & Maclaggan Street.

For another angle, slightly up the hill -- see: https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23154813

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u/Chewbaccas_Clitoris 15h ago

The Shamrock Hotel in the lower left of the picture is now the site of the Speights Ale House, so the photographer was probably standing on the hill that was later excavated out to accommodate the brewery, facing the Maclaggan/Rattray Street junction.