Talk:Milton, New Zealand

Milton kink

If anyone has a better picture of the Milton kink, feel free to replace the one I put there. An aerial photo would be great (although hard to get, I assume). Blarneytherinosaur 07:18, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

That said I managed to find these aerial photos of Milton. Too bad it's so small and (probably) copyrighted. Blarneytherinosaur 07:31, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm hoping to be travelling south through my old hometown in a couple of weeks (I'm in Dunedin now) - I'll see what I can do then. I was going to stop and take a photo of the church for the Robert Lawson article anyway (and possibly one of the school for the Toko High article too), so stopping at the kink wouldn't be much of a problem. Sorry I can't offer an aerial one though! (two edit conflicts... third time lucky?) Grutness...wha? 07:40, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Great! I think a good picture of the kink would be "worth a thousand words", so to speak. Blarneytherinosaur 08:15, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Done - took a bit longer to do than I though (thanks to my car needing repairs), and it wdasn't the easiest thing to photograph, but I think it's an improvement. I added a photo of the church, too. Grutness...wha? 08:14, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Re. the origin of the kink. My neighbour lived in Milton around the start of WW2 and assures me the kink was at the north end of the town then, and there was a large tree there. Garethvaughan 02:50, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Yup, definitely. My dad grew up in Milton about that time (ask your neighbour whether he knew a family called Dignan :) Grutness...wha? 23:27, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Have just been having a look at the cadastral parcels layer of Milton and it looks like the original road surveyed through the township doesn't have a kink in it at all... because the original road would have been Springfield Road / Cross Street / Table Hill Road. On either side of the road are separate subdivisions: Deeds Registry Plans 3, 5, 87 and 125 to the south-west, and Deeds Registry Plans 68, 126 and 306 to the north-east. These would have been surveyed out at different times and most probably by different surveyors. Note that there are kinks of various sizes in the other streets intersected by Cross Street / Springfield Road, as well (which means that the "Union" of "Union Street" could even be an indication that it is two separate streets joined together). I'd have to actually find a LINZ office (not an easy job any more) and look at their aperture cards of original plans of Blocks XI, XII, XVI and XVII, Tokomairiro SD, to see what the underlying surveys would have looked like, but my guess is that what passes for a main street now are the most convenient pair of internal streets of these subdivisions. Daveosaurus (talk) 09:31, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Makes a lot of sense. FWIW, I used to live in one of those other "kinked streets", Spenser Street. Grutness...wha? 22:44, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

great article!

just a heads-up here about the good work you've done on the milton article, you guys! it's really good. Kinzukiwi-lphs 23:07, 10 June 2007 (UTC)kinzukiwi-lphs

I'm sure I'm not alone here in saying compliments are always welcome! Cheers - Grutness...wha? 05:06, 11 June 2007 (UTC) (LPHS - Logan Park?)

Tokoiti

Hi, Great page on Milton but a lot of people would object to Tokoiti being described as a suburb of Milton. Most Tokoiti residents see the area as an independent entity. The council may like to see it as a suburb but the people that live there don't agree. I am thinking of creating a Tokoiti page when I have time. BruceAtTokoiti (talk) 09:11, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

That's probably a reasonable idea - it is a suburb, but it's a special case, since Milton grew out of Tokoiti (or Fairfax, at least), rather than Tokoiti being a smaller town that was absorbed by it. Grutness...wha? 20:57, 20 December 2008 (UTC)