Today, there are three ways folk in Avondale can get to Blockhouse Bay by public transport, and vice versa – along Blockhouse Bay Road or St...

Last post update: 31 October 2014 Avondale in 1883 was getting used to its new name from being known as the Whau (so were some of the new...

There had been earlier brickyards in Avondale and immediate districts: Daniel Pollen’s on the Rosebank from c.1855-c.1875, other smaller co...

Updated: 10 September 2019 In a corner of the little graveyard beside St Ninian’s Hall (formerly the Whau/Avondale Presbyterian Church)...

In three parts of Avondale, there are people living in the former workmen’s settlements or hamlets of Wharekura, Matariki and Awataha. But t...

There had been at least two earlier small blazes that September in 1922 – but the one which might have claimed the old 1880s original wooden...

Have a look at a map. From the former Three Guys site, along Great North Road to the Ray White offices, then on down to Elm Street until yo...

Over a hundred years ago, what is now Auckland City was made up of a number of borough councils, road boards, as well as the city council. A...

Yesterday, I attended one of the few Auckland City Heritage Festival events I'll be able to get to this year (as usual, I'm busy res...

Photo taken 6 February 2008, at Olympic Park, on the Avondale side of the border with New Lynn (the other part of the park, although recentl...

Sorry, another tram photo. No more for a wee while, I promise.

"How long," folks who know me would ask, "will it be before she goes sticking a picture of a train or a tram in that Timespan...

In case you, the reader, were not aware, 2008 marks the centenary of the completion of the North Island Main Trunk Line. Feilding & Dist...

This view, seen from the slope of St Mary's Road, made me stop in my tracks. On a fine Auckland day, with the waters of the Waitemata sp...

The plaque alongside these amazing sculptures in Ponsonby's Western Park reads: "Permanent trisculptural installation by New Zealan...

Spotted this sign on St Mary's Road in Ponsonby today. I had a bit of a hand in it, providing the research that went toward the write up...

While I was waiting for a really nice lunch I had today, I was reading Why the Hibiscus? (see earlier post). One bit, amongst many, caught ...

I've just received, from the Silverdale & Districts Historical Society, a wonderful brand new book called Why the Hibiscus? , subtit...

On Saturday 20 September 2008, a sign was unveiled at the corner of what was once a defence reserve in Blockhouse Bay, here in Auckland. Th...

I like this sculpture in New Lynn. It also reminds me that historians like J. T. Diamond reckoned that the Whau Portage, via the Whau River ...