Post last updated: 16 April 2012, with information from Sheryl Avery. Way back in 1940, Mr. D. Ringrose included in his recollections of ...

Many years ago, probably the mid to late 1980s, I photocopied a couple of photos from the vertical files held at Avondale Library, back...

In these days of the ever-continuing demise of public phone boxes in the wake of the cellphone revolution, younger generations will wonder ...

This is the third ship which brought part of my bloodline to New Zealand. I don't know the names of the first two yet, the ones which ...

This is Murchison. Up until now, when mentioned to me, my brain would drag up the tidbit of a certain earthquake of note which took place...

I kept seeing this mural while on the buses whizzing past it along Great North Road through Grey Lynn, and was determined one day to take p...

Discovered this morning: my Zoo War has been included on a bibliography (.pdf file) put out by the Aussies at CSIRO. After the initial sur...

The Bird Barn just off Lincoln Road in Henderson is a landmark for bird owners in Auckland. Trudging back up Lincoln Road yesterday in the...

An update to Heritage burns . This morning, I left the house early for two reasons: to be in time for a bus all the way up Lincoln Road ...

Even though I've only been around a tiny bit over four-and-a-half decades, I do remember when Lincoln Road, coming off the North-Western...

There's an article on the NZ Herald site tonight, a pall of smoke rising in a leaden sky thick with early summer rain, and a piece of ...

A business trip to Helensville Museum yesterday saw me having a munch of corned beef sandwiches while sitting on a seat on the verandah ou...