These are photos from and by my friend Bill Ellis. There's a memorial at the Auckland Harbour Bridge, in memory of those workers who ...

Back when I was last at Motat a few weeks ago, on the way out and walking past the side of the complex, at the rear of the old St Saviour...

Image: AWHS Collection At the St Jude’s “Avondale Then and Now” photo exhibition , a member of the local community approached me and aske...

I'm grateful to a very kind friend of mine who regularly gets up as early as the dawn chorus and so offered to take a couple iof snaps ...

A photo taken Friday, while the old 1907 Church Hall at the back of St Jude's Church was being set up. The committee members at St J...

This time last year, I was tinkering around in the Blogger site, after having had an odd dream about ordering a blog from a post office of ...

A photo essay.

From the Auckland City Council's City Scene , 24 February 2008: "A new public sculpture marks the site of the city's origina...

St Matthews-in-the-City, on Hobson-Wellesley-Federal Streets, is one of my favourite all-time buildings. I'll post more images a littl...

The local Avondale Community Board have completed a number of heritage mural projects in the area -- this is one of them. The images are of...

The original website being on Geocities, which is closing down its free website now, I've shifted the Avondale-Waterview Historical Soci...

The Domain’s fourth decade as a park began with water concerns. The Province’s District Engineer, Henry Allwright (1827-1906), expressed his...

1940 While looking at the Auckland Regional Council's collection of online aerials the other day, I spotted this shape in the old Grafto...

Between March and June of 1903, a new road was formed in the heart of Avondale. It was marked out, formed, gravelled and surface drained, an...

Right: Detail from DP 19781, Faulder Estate subdivision, 1926, LINZ records. Click to enlarge. Updated: 4 January 2012 Looking into t...

While looking for one thing in the newspaper reels at the library this afternoon, I found another -- a case of juvenile burglary in Avondale...

More from the Chapman letters -- No. 20, published in the Southern Cross, 6 November 1875. The first publican's license, the first one...

Another excerpt from G. T. Chapman's tales -- this one "Old Identities No. 19", Southern Cross, 30 October 1875. Speaking of...

George Thomson Chapman , from 1875-1876, sent a series of letters of remembrances to the editor of the Southern Cross under the heading &quo...

Khartoum Place, off Lorne Street in the city, is a place commemorating three struggles, really. First, the name Khartoum itself comes from t...