Two bits of good news has come through on the emails from Michael Wood, convener of the Puketapapa (Mt Roskill) local history forum (and al...

Bruce Comfort took these images in the Waitaki area of Otago, the Airedale District (and very kindly gave me permission to reproduce them h...

The following is from notes I pulled together today on Carrick Paul, 19th century surveyor and architect here in Auckland, and later a railw...

Updated 29 August 2019. Just before midnight, on 5 January 1893, Walter Nelson died from arsenic poisoning from eating just a single pi...

While in Takapuna in May with friends, I spotted these gates as we went past in their car, and said, "I'll come back to get a phot...

Back in May, when I last visited the Auckland War Memorial Museum, I spotted this plinth just outside the front of the building. It looks l...

Edinburgh Castle Hotel in the centre of an Upper Symonds Street scene, 8 February 1928, photographer James D Richardson.  Ref 4-2235, Sir G...

As I grew up and passed this building going back and forth in buses, indeed from when I was knee-high to the proverbial grasshopper, this w...