Lion cubs Maud and George were born on February 16 1913 at Wellington Zoo. The authorities held a "plebiscite" to determine th...

Got these via a Trade Me auction just recently.  These images have appeared in publications before now -- but even so, and after all the...

The Sandspit here is the one from where travellers take a ferry out to Kawau Island across the Hauraki Gulf. Here, at the end of a day t...

Updated 27 February 2025. This particular journey of my curiosity began once I brought home from a book sale The Beauty of the Bay : St Ma...

I passed this window by yesterday, heading down Wellesley Street West, just up from Elliott. Why did I take the photo (with the owner...

Heading home on Tuesday, lots of stuff floating around in the noggin from  having been to a meeting of fellow history-minded people -- ...

Further to these posts: Miss Newey's Cottage Remembering Miss Newey Last Thursday, the Aucklander was the first to take up the ...

Back in January, I was alerted that someone was selling a Benjamin Gittos token on Trade Me. Unfortunately, I lost out on that particula...

Last Tuesday, Alan Perrott’s article “Stepping Back in Time” appeared in "Canvas", part of the NZ Herald . Online, the article h...

i Updated and edited 10 October 2016. Invited to the reopening of the Fickling Centre in Three Kings today, I took the opportunity to do...