Image courtesy Birkenhead Historical Society The following appeared in the August/September newsletter of the Birkenhead Historical Societ...

Sad to see a sign I've grown up with deteriorating like this. The laurel leaves which formed a wreath around it are gone -- I doubt the...

 I visit Totara Avenue regularly, mainly because the Whau Local Board have their offices there, and I attend the monthly meetings to keep a...

From Wikipedia . Phil Hanson, a previous guest post author here on Timespanner, has given me the heads up this morning on this -- the deba...

I visited Wynyard Quarter only last August. Now, according to the NZ Herald and central Auckland business association Heart of the City, ...

I posted about the Queen's Head Tavern façade , at the corner of Mayoral Drive and Queen Street, back in late December 2009. Since then...

On a slightly murky day (it fined up later in the afternoon) at Mt Roskill Shops, intersection of Dominion and Mt Albert Roads, I spotted s...

 Between a car park and Dominion Road, at Mt Roskill shops, a walkway is adorned by a colourful mural, called "Time Machine" , by...

"Looking south from the foreshore of Mechanics Bay showing the Maori Hostelry (right), Gittos Street (left to right centre), Maori ...