Royal Oak

Royal Oak is a small suburb in New Zealand's biggest city of Auckland. It is situated between the suburbs of Epsom north and Onehunga south. Royal Oak is below the nearby governance of the Auckland Council. The populace become 5,421 in the 2006 Census, an growth of 366 from 2001. It is called after the Royal Oak resort that became placed on the Royal Oak Roundabout. In 1909 the lodge lost its licence to sell alcohol. For a few years it turned into a pharmacy earlier than getting used as the premises of Barfoot & Thompson Real Estate Agency. Royal Oak refers back to the tree Charles II hid up all through the Battle of Worcester to avoid capture. In the middle of the Royal Oak Roundabout turned into once located the Seddon Memorial.

Designed by way of John Park, a local architect who changed into additionally Mayor of Onehunga at one time, the shape become erected in reminiscence of Prime Minister Seddon who died all at once in office in 1906. Richard John Seddon 1845 - 1906 changed into immensely famous and there are numerous monuments to him across the u . S .. The Royal Oak Monument became in the form of a Gothic Market Cross and became a mixed tram refuge, gasoline lamp fashionable and consuming fountain.