Detail from SO 16220, 1911, LINZ crown copyright Back in 1911, under a special act of Parliament which validated a previous agreement ...

From my postcard collection, c. 1912 I found the following recently while looking in a collection of manuscripts collected by John Barr (NZ...

Another one of the Timespanner-photos-taken-from-a-moving-bus. I should have alighted and done it properly, but schedules had to be kept re...

Updated and edited 18 February 2021 A comment received this week to this post on a sign at Constitution Hill set me on another exploration ...

I'm throwing this open to the floor, and ask for all and any help in terms of increasing my knowledge of weird 19th century terms -- in ...

Check out the Auckland Trains and Transport blog for images of the refurbished heritage trams arriving at Jellicoe Wharf a few days ago, de...

The following came from the Auckland Star 25 May 1932, written by "Old Timer": Mention of the fact that the Auckland Harbour Board...

With an air of what would appear to us today, more than a century later, as classic Victorian-Edwardian Gothic horror dripping from his word...

From the Auckland Star , 2 December 1899. AVONDALE SOUTH. By S.H.W. I was surprised lately on visiting the above district to note the sign...

The Auckland Star (formerly Evening Star ) is now online at Papers Past from the above issue through to the end of 1903. They're prom...

John Russell emailed me tonight with his memories of Auckland's harbour ferries, in response to the earlier post on the vehicular ferrie...

This image gave me a fit of the giggles tonight, I must admit. It was sent to me by Claire Gummer from A Latitude of Libraries blog, who w...