Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Stratford, New Zealand
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Naming=== [[File:Stratford clock tower Glockenspiel - Romeo and Juliet talking.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Stratford clock tower "glockenspiel"]] On 3 December 1877, the name Stratford-upon-Patea was adopted, on the motion of [[William Crompton (politician)|William Crompton]] of the Taranaki Waste Lands Board.{{cn|date=December 2024}} The town was named after [[Stratford-upon-Avon]] due to similarities of the [[Patea River]] and the [[River Avon, Warwickshire|River Avon]] in Warwickshire.<ref name="heritagemag">{{cite magazine |last1=Martin |first1=Nicola |date=Summer 2024 |editor-last=Dunlop |editor-first=Anna |title=Work of art|magazine=[[Heritage New Zealand]] |publisher=[[Heritage New Zealand]] |pages=12β13 |issue=175 |issn=1175-9615}}</ref> The connection to [[William Shakespeare]]'s hometown led to the naming of 67 streets after Shakespearian characters from 27 of his plays.<ref name="heritagemag"/> Today New Zealand's only [[carillon|glockenspiel]] clock tower plays the balcony scene from ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' three times a day. The spoken words are provided via external loudspeakers - there is no carillon (multiple bells) as would be more typical for glockenspiels in towers.{{cn|date=December 2024}}
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Stratford, New Zealand
(section)
Add topic