I received the following email today from Shale Chambers, in response to this earlier post on the streets of the Shawville and S.L. Hirst su...

Over Easter, the New North Road/Blockhouse Bay Road intersection was closed down to through-traffic. Auckland City advised that pedestrians ...

I ventured out yesterday to hear a talk on an archaeological investigation of a West Auckland historical site. As the talk was being given i...

I am a true, born-and-bred Aucklander, second generation (my paternal grandfather came here in 1912, and three out of my four grandparents h...

Image of karaka fruit, from Wiki . There are three Karaka Bays in the Auckland Region that I know of (comments, please, if I've missed o...

The second-to-last journey of the 72-ton topsail schooner Dauntless was to convey a cargo of cement to Port Chalmers in late June, 1875. Sh...

The other day, I had a bit of a trawl through a reel at the Auckland Library which had fragments of early New Zealand papers on it. For the ...

Another blog I'll add to the left-hand list: The New Zealand Journal , found this morning via Jayne's Our Great Southern Land blog....

Image from Wikipedia . Back in late March, an item was to be auctioned which was claimed to be a piece of timber from the Kororareka flag...

Some interesting history summarised on the website for the Michael King Writer's Centre at Devonport, on Auckland's North Shore, abo...

While I was in Matamata, I felt too tired to continue the main day of the historical conference there and attend the scheduled dinner, so I ...

Image: Old St. Paul's Church, by Edward Ainsworth, 1843, Auckland City Art Gallery . To me, one of Auckland's great historic tragedi...

This is a name, now, which has been expunged from Auckland’s street maps. Rokeby Street, between Queen Street and the southward curve of Whi...

Back in February , I had a wee bleat about Kenneth & Leslie Avenues, and Collins and Ethel Street. Mainly, the bleat was about the Auckl...

Story here. From the article: "Devonport Community Board is looking at options for replacing brass horses that were stolen from the me...

Scribd link here . For the first time since the Pt Chevalier Times was inaugurated late last year, it's hit the four-page mark, due to ...

The northern part of Matamata's Centennial Drive doesn't have anywhere near the heritage features as the older one I posted about e...