Because I now visit Jayne's Our Great Southern Land blog daily, I came across a comment posted by the owner of another NZ history blog:...

Not about trains, this time, I promise ...! At the paddock across the road from the trains, cars and models exhibitions, they staged ploughi...

Just to start: the word "gauge" is one of my spelling blind spots. For some reason, my brain keeps trying to spell it guage. I hav...

Okay, I'm back, after a brief rest to try to get some energy restored. Here are some of the rail-themed photos I took today (other, gene...

A couple of very good friends of mine offered me a seat in their car for a trip to Glenbrook, down in Franklin district, to see the Glenbroo...

In a previous post , I put up some links about vanished railway lines in the South Island. Now, it's the North Island's turn. The No...

Image from Wikipedia . Just pipping the post a day early -- I spotted this NZ Herald article on the history of the day. Quite a good summar...

There are lots of rail lines that used to go places in this country, but don't anymore. This subject came to mind from reading posts on ...

Last year, the NZ Federation of Historical Societies' magazine NZ Legacy had a special railway theme issue. As it was also the centenar...

Last year, the West Auckland Historical Society (of which, I'm honoured to say, I'm a member) published West-Of-Eden , their flagshi...

1840-1855 to be found here . The download size for each volume is huge (I've just taken a look at the 1855 one, which is well over 250MB...

Further to the Riversdale Manufacturing Company posts ... Here is the list of shareholders in the Riversdale Manufacturing Company (who own...

Slightly off the NZ heritage theme to this blog ... A very dear friend of mine, Bill from Where To, Bud?, has sent me a wonderful package f...

Their site can be found here . From the site: "The Puhoi Historical Society records the early history of Puhoi, a settlement created by...

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the cre...

I had a long day travelling, yesterday. It seemed that I was just following history's flow, and letting it take me where it willed. It w...

Yesterday, the local Robert Burns Society put on a celebration at the Domain in honour of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Scots Ba...

Auckland Evening Star , 28 September 1874. A facetious hair-dresser up town (we shall not mention names) sold a bottle of scent to a young l...

From the Auckland Evening Star , 25 January 1875, advertisements and public notices ... "I HEREBY give notice to the Six respectably-dr...

From the Auckland Evening Star , 13 February 1875. I reckon these guys blew any marathons we ever have here in Auckland completely out of co...