I found an old photo in a fairly cheap old frame in a wonderful antique shop on Dominion Road today -- and it has helped solve a bit of a m...

I was told about this just today: the National Library have put the first two decades of the AJHRs, 1860s and 1870s, online and (like Papers...

Image from NZETC. Post updated, with additional information and corrections, 14 February 2011, and 13-14 February 2016. On 15 July th...

Yes, why not have a theme sign for a cafe next to the train station? I haven't been in the cafe, so no comments from me regarding the t...

In pulling together a talk at the Central Library for next Wednesday on medical records, I came across another interesting blog: Genealogy N...

Information from the Charlotte Museum, on their upcoming event day in September. Further to t his post. Mt Albert's only museum is org...

Once again, Bill and Barbara Ellis have very kindly given permission for their photos to appear on the blog. This time -- more control boxe...

Guest spot photographs from my friends Bill and Barbara Ellis, showing the construction work in progress at the site for the new Onehunga T...

This, from the NZ Herald, 3 October 1928. Residents of Tititrangi have suffered considerably at the hands of trespassers in search of shru...

Updated 19 April 2020. Following is another guest post, this one from Arnold Turner, member of Mt Albert Historical Society. THE HISTOR...

World War II, together with rationing restrictions and reduced imports, caused some interesting incidents here on the homefront. This is j...

I don't think I've posted about these before. They were "completed" in 2007. I use quote marks, because the original Com...

You'll find this at the Birkenhead Historical Society 's museum here in Auckland.  My friend and former President of the Society Ra...

Today, I took delivery of a pile of business cards for the blogsite. Readers may think it a bit odd, a barmy history nut like me ordering u...

In October last year, I came across four heritage billboards at Henderson Train Station . Now, there's four new ones. Click to enlarge...

I don't know enough about this, one of my favourite buildings on the North Shore. This may be the telephone exchange built in 1902, ...

This gravestone beside St Paul's Presbyterian Church on Albert Road in Devonport caught my eye because of the blankness of it. Philip H...

CatB has very kindly given permission to share the following from a scrapbook in her collection. Click to enlarge. The 67th AA Searchligh...

Well, probably not all that old, compared with some of the stuff you'll find on this blog. But -- it's been around for a while.  ...

Outside the civic offices and library at Takapuna is a very different type of war memorial. This one commemorates the fallen from the di...