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Expanding My Heritage Bubble

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Kia ora, Over the last couple of weeks I've been fortunate enough to be able to take advantage of the slightly relaxed COVID-19 restrictions by visiting some local walking tracks around Dunedin. This included a walk along one of The Silver Stream Water Race Tracks . Water races are a familiar component of historic goldfield archaeology in New Zealand. These are channels that were cut across hillsides to bring water from streams to places where gold was mined.  The Silver Stream Water Race was not established to supply water for gold mining however, but to help meet the demand for water of a rapidly expanding urban population in the nineteenth century. View of North Dunedin ca. 1861 ( Hocken Snapshop , Item 0518_01_003A ). North Dunedin in December 1874 (To create this image I've stitched together two separate photos taken from the steeple of Dunedin's First Church and sourced from  Hocken Snapshop ). In the earliest days of Dunedin ...