Another of the oddities picked up from the old newspapers while looking for something completely different ... "Mr David Ross, archit...

From the Avondale-Waterview Historical Society collection: Devonport Wharf, here in Auckland, June 1992, just before its demolition and ref...

Roy Turner, Ladies and Gents Hairdresser, at the top of Williamson Avenue, Grey Lynn,  just along from Foodtown. It's on one of the ...

I was heading along Mayoral Drive, a road in Auckland's CBD responsible for scores of demolition sites in the 1970s, and spotted ano...

I'm in my mid 40s, so I remember the dental nurse's office at Avondale Primary School being called "the murder house" . ...

Well done to Parnell Village ,  which has not only preserved a specimen of the endangered wild Type D telphone box , but also includes lov...

Starting with my post on the telephone boxes of doom from 1924, things proceeded through to Jayne including a link to that on her blog (th...

There's a good opinion piece in today's Herald by Bob Kerridge on the old St James Theatre, slowly decaying away in darkness, which...

This came from the Avondale Sunday market as well. It was inside a shabby looking frame, but it caught my eye (as things can tend to do). ...

My favourite soft drink is ginger beer. I reckon it's a good choice as a favourite, considering ginger beer was around in colonial ti...

This may not look like much, and I've passed it by tons of times while heading along Geddes Terrace, both as a nipper in Primary Schoo...

A friend of mine showed me her copy purchased at a book sale recently, and I thought at the time, "Cool!". A field guide to Auckl...

Such was the headline of an article from 1 February 1957 in the Auckland Star which caught my eye today in the Auckland City Library. I...

The folk at St Matthews-in-the-City who brought you the "measuring fish" billboard earlier this year are now in strife over this...

Just when I think the day is going to be ordinary ... someone sends through wonderful stuff inside an envelope which lands in my letterbox...

Image: Kinder House, 1995, from AWHS collection Rev. John Kinder, and emblem of the Church of England school at Parnell. I was privi...

A range of photos taken this week at MOTAT didn't turn out all that well, but this one did -- so I've popped it on the blog at t...

This is the Avondale Baptist Church, first main landmark in Avondale once the Oakley Creek is crossed (down underneath the road) as one tr...