Ian Kendall from Melbourne in Australia has a page on Rampant Scotland.com on place names in Auckland . I found it by chance while ferreting...

Fifth issue of the Pt Chevalier Times is out (better late than never ...)

Another link added to the list at the left: The Community Archive, a website collecting together the contact and holdings details of instit...

Google News Timeline . Enter a date and other keywords, and watch references come up from online sources which may help with research -- or ...

 Updated 19 December 2013. LOSS OF H. M S. 'ORPHEUS.' The Rev. Charles B Haslewood — In the Darlington Telegraph , of April 11...

My thanks to guest contributor Phil Hanson for the following piece he put together on Ken Maunder Park in New Lynn, and the story behind the...

My apologies for the blurriness of the image -- I was able to take one shot from inside a moving suburban train heading back out west to Avo...

In my work, I deal with early survey and subdivision plans a lot. I have a deep love of maps, and these types are no exception. Having dow...

Saw this interesting article by Paul Moon in the Herald today, on Matariki and just what it may be supposed to mean. I'm still not qui...

I think that this could be a " Beware of the taniwha " sign. This is Coronation Bridge, Henderson, the pedestrian accessway fro...

Mainline Steam will soon have to move from their present base at Parnell, which is land owned by KiwiRail. The good news is that there'...

It's a frosty morning here on the Avondale ridge ... Waiting for my morning coffee to take effect, and spurred on by Jayne's latest ...

Image from Wiki . (Updated 8 September 2020) Isaac Robinson was, in 1865, a 25-year-old (or 31 years old, the accounts vary) 5’ 8” tall Ir...

You know, when I saw so many details were out of kilter in Anthony Flude's two editions of Henderson's Mill , you'd think I woul...

An article in the April 1973 issue of the Auckland-Waikato Historical Journal caught my eye a couple of weeks ago, entitled, "The Ear...

I found a brief paragraph in, of all places, the Poverty Bay Herald from 3 July 1888, which gives an example of how the early roads, paid f...

Continuing from Henderson's Mill : Ben Copedo is one of West Auckland's foremost historians and researchers. I have the highest rega...

Anthony Flude’s revised edition of Henderson’s Mill (2008) costs around $30 retail. Right now, I wouldn’t buy it at that price. I don’t th...