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A social history of named student houses in Dunedin, New Zealand

flatnames — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 21:07:30 +0000

Recently I had the opportunity to submit a post to the University Histories blog. This research group, based at the University of Manchester in the UK, conducts research on the history of universities. You can read it here.

https://universityhistories.com/category/students-and-student-life/

Missing details

flatnames — Mon, 30 May 2016 07:15:32 +0000

Can you fill in the blanks?

While Ive collected details of flat names and address for over 500 flats which you can see on the flats map, I do have a list of named flats where details are missing. Ive heard about these flats from a variety of sources: memoirs, emails, facebooks posts

In order to map a flat I need an accurate address (even if that street doesnt exist anymore, like with Hobbit) and to see patterns of naming over time I need to know the decade that flat was present in.

How you can help

If you have any details about any of the following flats, please do email me at flatnames[at]gmail.com mentioning the flat by name and any details you remember.

Khublah Khan written by Samuel Coleridge, in an opiate haze c.1797 [1].

Whether or not this is the case, the flat was certainly around too early to be named for the 1980 roller-opera starring Olivia Newton John, and the hit song of the same name written by Jeff Lynne.

We walked out of that door turned hard left and back into the shop, where they made the most amazing bacon burgers and chips Mrs Verkerk always remembered us all 20+ years later, when she was in the new store ( which her son owns now).[2]

The family shop, known as the Campus Wonderful Store is still 138 Union St where its been feeding local students with pies, chips and grocery items for decades.[3]

Photo taken from the intersection Forth and Union Sts looking towards the site of the flat Xanadu (yellow building) and the Verkerks store on the corner of Eden and Union Sts. Image source: Verkerk Family (via Judy Fisher)

Corner building opponents concerns dismissed, ODT 10 November 2016.

Shambles (1950s and 1960s)

flatnames — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:02:34 +0000

Where Scribes Bookshop is now, on the corner of Great King and St David Streets in Dunedin, there was once a notorious flat, called the Shambles. It was well known for it’s parties and as a location to go to continue drinking once the pubs had closed.

It’s not entirely clear from where the name of the flat originated: it may have been the shambolic nature of the place itself, or it may, as has been suggested by a former resident, been named for a place in Manchester of the same name.

Shambles is an old name and derives from Viking word Shamel apparently meaning ‘bench’, ‘booth’ or ‘shelf’ and the name is found in many places in the UK where there are market places.

The most famous example such a place is the Shambles in York which is allegedly mentioned in the Doomsday Book, one of the few streets that is. This would make it over 900 years old.

This is a quintessential medieval street with upper storeys of buildings stretching out across the street precariously towards each other. The street was once a flesh market (hence also being known as Flesshamel) that is, a street of butchers. Livestock were slaughtered in the streets and it’s been suggested that it is this resulting mess that provides the word shambles with its contemporary definition. In fact the OED gives three definitions: 1) a mess or muddle, 2) a butcher’s slaughterhouse, 3) a scene of carnage.

Reports about the Shambles in Dunedin, of parties and exploding pans of golden dough boys from the 1950s and 60s, suggest the OEDs third definition may be most approprite for explaining the name of our Great King Street residence.