Friday morning, I decided to cut loose, and have a morning's trek along Matamata's existing Heritage Trail, the Centennial Drive. Th...

From the Hawera & Normanby Star, 8 September 1885. Great consternation was caused in Waitara this morning by seeing our energetic police...

I have been away for four days in Matamata. The purpose of the excursion was (a) to attend a conference of historical societies belonging to...

It is thought in reports on the building that Alberton, the 19th century Mt Albert home of Allan Kerr Taylor (Kerr, his middle name, beca...

Back to the Auckland City Street Names database. Back in 2007, the database was updated regarding their entry for Benfield Avenue in Mt Alb...

Southern Cross, 18 January 1867 One of those comically-contemptible cases which frequently come before the Resident Magistrate was heard yes...

Now, don't get me wrong. I think that the initiative by Auckland City Libraries to put up a database of information on Auckland City'...

Out of the blue, Jan Tully from Melbourne sent me an email about a photograph she had come across while sorting through some family history ...

One of the enduring and endearing landmarks along New North Road in Auckland is the rocket in Rocket Park, close to the Mt Albert community ...

Back in January, I posted about the signal box at the New North Road/ Blockhouse Bay Road corner. Today, while hanging around Rocket Park i...

The information I used for the post originally written in 2002 on Grubb's Avondale bakery came from a phone conversation in 2001 with K...

Around 1919, the Thode Brothers (Arthur Edwin Forbes Thode and Percy Raymond Forbes Thode) ran a store at the corner of Rosebank and Great N...

I spoke recently to some students at Unitec -- a really wonderful experience. One of the last questions I was asked in the session was about...

I found the following couple of exam papers today in a file at Archives New Zealand. The file was about the original site of Mt Albert Schoo...

Song of a Mormon Elder in New Zealand. Come all ye Gentile sinners And listen to my song ; It's for your good I speak to you, I won'...

A nasty surprise awaited a diligent government servant in Avondale one October Monday morning in 1889, in the days before we had a resident ...

Here in Avondale, an application has been made for resource consent to replace an existing Islamic Centre with a full-fledged mosque at t...