Copy of 1867 formal notice of requirement to vaccinate. Reproduced here by kind permission of Pauline Rundle and family. In 1863, amidst r...

Just putting up a link to Presbyterian Archives' post on St Paul's Trinity Pacific Church , and its sad fate during the 22 February ...

This from the Taranaki Herald , 2 March 1886. An elopement, attended with more than the usual degree of the romantic, is reported to have ...

On 19 March 2011, the Friends of Waikumete with Auckland Council will be commemorating the 125th anniversary of the first burial at Waikumet...

Neville Exler, a fellow member of the Avondale-Waterview Historical Society, emailed this photo  yesterday of the drinking fountain and com...

Another of my favourite buildings when I was in Christchurch in 2007 -- the Catholic Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament .  This Herald arti...

More photos I took when I visited Christchurch. in 2007. One of the heritage complexes in Christchurch badly damaged by the 22 February ear...

I took this photo in March 2007. Today, the spire to Christchurch's Anglican Cathedral is rubble. When the city was struck with the 7....

Another blog I've just stumbled upon. Thames NZ Genealogy Resources is not just a names-and-lists genealogy resource, it also includes ...

Passing through Newmarket last Saturday, I had a chance to get shots of two pieces of street art there that I've missed before now. T...

Riversdale Reserve, Avondale, today is made of from three parts: part of lot 19, all of 20 and part of 21 of a subdivision of one of the or...

These were bought in an antiques shop on Garnet Road in Westmere named Babushka Antiques. As I said to the proprietor there yesterday, ...

Bill and Barbara Ellis submitted the above image yesterday, taken "somewhere in Henderson". Thanks folks! Much more colourful th...

The Howick branch of the NZ Society of Genealogists were all abuzz over the links last Saturday. I thought, though, that unless you paid a h...

Image from Wikipedia . Last week, I attended one of the Auckland Central Library's lunchtime talk sessions , "Honoured Māori wome...