Just off Pitt Street and close to Karangahape Road, on the edge of Freeman's Bay, two domes serve as landmarks for passing traffic and ...

Back in December last year, I did a post on the memorial to the Costley Ward time capsule at Auckland City Hospital. Sandy posed the qu...

Image from Wikipedia . The Norman Ng Building in Karangahape Road has undergone a refit. For decades last century it was a fruit and vege s...

One of my discoveries today on a day basically spent rambling through history from Karangahape Road to Parnell and then down to near ...

My apologies for the blurred image -- shot this afternoon from inside a moving bus. This is the intersection of Blockhouse Bay and Great No...

I felt this was worth linking to -- helps answer the question I often get from folks as to how I manage to get around Auckland without a car...

No, I'm not talking about the one who is probably New Zealand's most famous present-day John Campbell . It's the historic one...

My mother once ran a dairy in Taylor Street, Blockhouse Bay (called the "Bounty Dairy") in the early 1960s. She told me of a day w...

The following comes from the NZ Herald , 3 September 1941. It's one of those things I picked up a while back, and tucked away -- then ...

The New Lynn works. Image from a letterhead held in the J T Diamond collection, Waitakere Central Library, Henderson I started researching...