Image: Mt Taranaki, formerly Mt. Egmont, from Wikipedia . Edit: 18 March 2019, further info on his education career, and adding in links to...

I found this in the Auckland Star , 16 January 1923. Toll gates have never been popular and when about fifteen years ago the Egmont County C...

I found this interesting article in the Auckland Star of 17 January 1923 today. "The lodging of a petition against the return of one o...

The story of J. J. Boyd's Aramoho Zoo is part of The Zoo War (2008), but I thought I'd publish the chapter online as well, seeing ...

Mrs Margaret Richardson, Avondale Primary School's "Cocoa Lady". Photo courtesy of Mrs Richardson's daughters, Mrs Gagen a...

When Patrick Moran of Kumeu died after falling off a train close to the JJ Craig brickyards in St Georges Road on 10 August 1900, it was a b...

The early 1890s for Auckland was a time of (European) people's real concerns over a perceived takeover of Auckland's fruit and vege...

An incident took place on a summer’s evening in Avondale over a hundred years ago, which led to a police line-up, an arrest, and not one but...

Avondale isn't especially renowned as a sheep district -- but, along with cattle, sheep were the occupiers of many of the large farms in...

Following on from this earlier post . I woke up this morning, and wondered, "Well, if Matson from Canterbury was the first successful o...

My good friend from Back Roads wrote in comment to the first ostrich post : "Dick Scott contended in Seven Lives on Salt River that N...

Image above: from the Observer, 10 October 1908. The Nathan family owned 2,656 acres at Whitford, near Auckland, and they decided in 1887 to...

I've just found this site today: Archaeopedia New Zealand , a Wiki for New Zealand archaeology. Quite a bit already loaded on the site, ...

Sometimes, we here in Avondale can get really fired up about politics. This article from the Auckland Star, 9 February 1905 , comes from the...

In 1907, the parish of St Jude's Church in Avondale finally had enough money to get their long-planned Sunday school building/Parish Hal...

Greenwood was an early landowner in Avondale, including Allotment 66 in the New Windsor area behind what was later to become Methuen Hamlet...

The signs are up regarding the change from January 19th 2009 to the temporary platforms at Trent and Tait Street, and the total stoppage of ...

A wee tale found on Papers Past. Observer, Volume XXI, Issue 1137, 13 October 1900, Page 16 My Dear Muriel,— I must tell you of a story I he...

Image taken April 2002. Avondale-Waterview Historical Society collection. I remember visiting this shop, The Gentry at 1685 Great North Road...

Well, I've just finished the article I mentioned back at this post and loaded it to Scribd. Canvas City: The 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Ri...