John Russell of the St Jude's Anglican Church congregation, has worked since 2009 to bring together a record of the burials at Avonda...

Lion tamer, 1873. From Wikipedia. I've just added another bit from The Zoo War -- this one on early menageries in the country, fr...

Another TradeMe purchase – this one quite possibly a Tanner Bros photo of the gates to the Auckland Domain (right), with the Auckland H...

Detail from what is believed to be a portrait of Abel Tasman (pictured) and his family, 1637. From Wikipedia . A bit from the Novembe...

I was in Manurewa township today to give a talk on Chinese history in Auckland to a U3A group. Heading from the train station there, I t...

2008 aerial, from Auckland Council website Edited, 24 October 2016: the house has now been demolished. I’ve had a number of people c...