Further to Preserving the signs in cyberspace post. I had thought of this book when Sandy sent through the link she'd come across, and...

Can't say this chap looks too happy. Not as happy perhaps as this other chap (maybe because Chap No. 2 got the colour gig). Carrying a ...

Found at one of my favourite second-hand bookstore haunts, Ariel Books on Symonds Street -- a postcard showing St Andrews , probably datin...

Sandy sent an email yesterday (what would I do without you, Sandy?) about a site called Preserve , dedicated to fading typography on the wa...

Just spotted Rare Thoughts this evening. Some interesting mini-articles there about upcoming attractions from the Sir George Grey Special C...

Pity our local P.C. Plod in the early days. This from the Observer , 17 February 1900. Constable Crean, of Avondale, finds his temper rath...

This from the Auckland Star, 13 December 1882: An accident, fortunately unattended by serious results, happened to Potter's 'bus th...

The new trench station at New Lynn opened yesterday (but I was detoured into Waikumete Cemetery ...) .So, here's some images from Day Tw...

This used to be a brilliant mural, visible as the trains pulled in to the second station site at New Lynn (the last above-ground one). Sad ...

Walking along (and ducking into the Waikumete Cemetery part of the way due to lack of footpath on the west side of Glenview Road) to get to...

Sandy , one of Timespanner's frequent commenters (thanks, Sandy) put up a link to her photos of Waikumete Cemetery in a comment to the ...

I saw the start of the shelters going up yesterday. It's starting to look more like a train station, now.

Back in July last year, Phil Hanson sent me a clipping from the Western Leader about a mural completed by artist Mark Whyte, on a power c...

Yes, I wrote to the Western Leader because Matthew Gray keeps insisting on calling the George Maxwell Memorial Cemetery , "Orchard Str...

From a bus tour booklet I've been putting together for the West Auckland Historical Society: In 1876, 100 acres of the present site w...

  While walking through a small park off Hurstmere Road in Takapuna, on Saturday 20th February, I was taken by the way the sun gave these s...

I've just uploaded Part 3 of The Zoo War to Scribd -- J J Boyd's Royal Oak Zoo , and his war with the Onehunga Borough Council. O...