Book Launch: Mr Ward's Maps by Elizabeth Cox

Unity Books and Massey University Press warmly invite you to celebrate the launch of Mr Ward’s Map: Victorian Wellington street by street by NZ social and architectural historian Elizabeth Cox.

"In 1891, a remarkable map of Wellington was made by surveyor Thomas Ward. It recorded the footprint of every building, from Thorndon in the north and across the teeming, inner-city slums of Te Aro to Berhampore in the south.

Updated regularly over the next 10 years, it detailed hotels, theatres, oyster saloons, brothels, shops, stables, Parliament, the remnants of Māori kāinga, the Town Belt, the prisons, the ‘lunatic asylum’, the hospital and much more, in detail so particular that it went right down to the level of the street lights."

As per, all welcome! See you at the signing table.