My friend Liz from Mad Bush Farm mentioned last night that she had a photo showing the Queens Wharf and the sheds/structures which, here in...

The Looking at Local History blog author, stoneferrian, has been kind enough to say a few words about this blog (earlier this month): ...

A good friend of mine, and fellow Avondale-Waterview Historical Society member, has just now published his completed research into the peopl...

This from the Ohinemuri Gazette , 10 October 1913, regarding John Mildenhall of Kitchener Hamlet (now the Holly Street, formerly Rifle Range...

Additional text 4 June 2025 Too late for this year’s Anzac Day, I know, but I felt this was more than worth the post.  Today a friend g...

Hokitika township, ca 1870s Original print Reference No. PA7-51-05-1 Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of...

I received in the mail today a transcribed list of a 6 June 1863 Militia Roll for the 2nd Battalion Auckland (from the Blockhouse Bay Histor...

It's at the edge of the patterned brick frontage to SkyCity in central Auckland, overshadowed by the bulk of the Sky Tower, the landmark...

In March 1892, a man named Frederick Deeming was convicted in England of the murder of his wife and children, and burying them in cement in ...

Sandy in her comments to my Fine Lines post earlier, added a link to a YouTube vid of part of the Close Up documentary series, this bit o...

Back in 2009, I posted about "Aspiration" on upper Lorne Street in the city, and photographed the statue with a beer bottle stuck...

Today, I did a power point presentation at the Auckland Central Library, called Fine Lines . Seeing as I put a lot into it, I thought, hey -...

Well, with a report from Council as to what's happening with Avondale's oldest building so far, I've brought out the first issue...

This is from the NZ Herald, 17 October 1928. LONG WALK BACKWARDS REMUERA TO ST.HELIERS UNUSUAL WAGER TAKEN UP MIDNIGHT ROAD PROCESSION ...

The Hard to Find Secondhand Bookshop on Onehunga Mall is one of the places I try not to go near too much -- because invariably, I come away...

From Wiki. Australian military cemetery at the Quinn's Post site in Çanakkale. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribu...

I did a research summary back in 2006 on the Orange Hall in Newton, back in 2006. Funny how, all of a sudden, I'm hearing about it again...

Elaine Read, editor of the Otahuhu Despatch , the newsletter for the Otahuhu Historical Society, has very kindly granted permission for me ...

At a recent Police Court enquiry a precocious child of tea summers was placed under examination, when the constable enquired of him if he un...

Last Sunday, I was invited to join a party of historical society folk from Waikato and West Auckland, visting the Waitakere Tramline near S...