Overshadowed by modernity on either side, the 1930 former Auckland Electric Power Board Building, now known as Landmark House, still mana...

A bus shelter today in Auckland can look like this. It can take ages for someone from the Powers That Be to agree to put through the pape...

According to the North Shore Libraries' site (to be all part of Auckland Council from next Monday),  these pottery tiles were made by ...

Image from Wikimedia Commons, by JohnstonDJ, from here , under under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Sa...

Now, when it comes to the repainting of heritage buildings, I'm very subjective and quite judgemental as far as the results are concern...

While having an all too bland lunch at a cafe across the road today on Takapuna's Hurstmere Road --  I spotted the lettering of an old ...

Andrew from the High Riser blog emailed overnight to give me the head's up on a beautiful piece of art deco design on a building in Ran...

Back in November 2008, I posted the story of William Inskip's sad death down a well in Avondale in 1886, after initial publication the...

 I received the following email today from Peter Cooke, of the NZ Military History Committee. You might be interested in this brochure of ...

A website found by chance: Derek Quinn's Fire Stations- Auckland Region .

I have been trying to get out to see the Howick Historical Village for absolutely ages. Finally last Sunday, thanks to Mt Albert Historical...