Southdown, New Zealand
Southdown | |
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Southdown Train Station (closed) |
Oranga | Penrose | Mount Wellington |
Te Papapa |
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Sylvia Park |
( Mangere Inlet ) |
( Mangere Inlet ) |
Westfield |
Southdown is an industrial suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. The main company in the suburb was the former Southdown Freezing Works, part of a large industrial zone located near the North Island Main Trunk railway line. The buildings were decommissioned during the 1980s and 1990s, releasing large areas of land to be redeveloped as office parks.
For many years the abattoirs located here were discharging large amounts of untreated waste into the Manukau Harbour. This had a detrimental effect on the ecology of the harbour, which at the turn of the 20th century had been a popular and attractive place to swim, sail, fish and gather shell fish. For most of the middle of the 20th century it was a health hazard and its shell-fish a probable source of food poisoning. Since the freezing works were fully closed in 1981,[1] the water quality has improved greatly.
The Waikaraka Cycleway ends at the bottom of Hugo Johnston Drive, next to the defunct Southdown Power Station.
Hugo Johnston Drive is the site of a historic 2.5ha
References
- ^ New Zealand Historical Atlas - McKinnon, Malcolm (Editor); David Bateman, 1997, Plate 97
- ^ "Asbestos strife plagues firm". The New Zealand Herald. 30 November 2000. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
External links
- Photographs of Southdown held in Auckland Libraries' heritage collections.