Postetrity doesn't always go quite to plan. The death of Mr. Wm. Paterson, founder of the firm of W. Paterson and Co., ‘bus proprietor...

 The name has faded on all bar a couple of plaques and initials on the window frosting ...   For an office building, especially one for...

Fort Lane is a small lane between Fort and Customs Streets in the city, at the back of the old Imperial Hotel. Whenever I'm heading f...

Smack opposite the stop for Mt Eden buses on Customs Street is this lovely bit of parapet architecture which appears to have survived co...

Someone had the good idea to brighten up a bit of Stokes Road intersection with Mt Eden Road for the seemingly endless lines of cars waiti...

I never know quite what I’ll take out of my letterbox, sometimes. Margaret Walther from Kaiapoi sent me a copy of a book she has written...

  From NZ Herald 16 June 1959 A funny thing I find about looking back in the past, even the more recent bits: even though I wasn’t born ...

I see that the Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website has put up a link to ol' Timespanner via the Blandford Park post. (Many thanks, folk...

Newmarket Train Station. It has been called "world class." The two-storey palace of glass and metal, which the Auckland Regiona...

On the corner of Stokes Road, the bottom part almost completely hidden by produce crates, sits a gem of heritage art on control boxes. ...

My friends the Ellises had spotted this control box earlier , and sent me a photo. Today, I got a chance to stop off at Newmarket at take a...

I really do urge you to check out Auckland-West , where the photographer has captured some wonderful images of sights west of Queen Street i...

Just popped another link onto the left-hand list: Maungaturoto Memories , an off-shoot site from Back Roads . I like the title graphics ther...

Timespanner's been a fair bit quiet of late -- but I will return soon. Had some projects on my plate which have diverted my attention, b...

Updated 11 June 2025. It was the afternoon of Friday, 4 March 1955, when Mrs. S. Elliott, wife of the postmaster at Currarong , on the New...

The librarians at the Auckland Research Centre told me about this a few weeks ago -- over the weekend, I did some digging at the Auckland Li...

Australia Trove I've only just found this (oi, Jayne ! Have you been holding out on me??) You may think it odd why I'm adding an...

More items from the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Above is a pram, built by Dick & Cowden's pram works at Newton, according t...

During my recent visit to the Auckland War Memorial Museum, and in particular the Weird & Wonderful section ,  I found that one phrase...

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