A comment came through this morning from Leonie Norton that a new website is online from the Friends of the Civic. Definitely worth a ...

Red outline of the extent of Basque Park today, overlaid on map of legal descriptions from LINZ website - crown copyright. A reader n...

I had cause to visit the Auckland War Memorial Museum again on 2 July. On leaving in the afternoon, I cut across one of the grassed area...

A non-New Zealand topic, this. I bought this postcard recently, and thought of my grandmother Elinor Smith who was in London during the ...

What's in a name? Babylon Flats is one of those place names which has faded from use (at least where it once was), yet it dated ba...

Farmers Union Trading  Coy building, 5 February 1924, ref 1-W302, Sir George Grey Special Collections,  Auckland Library The Farmers ...

John Adam gave me the heads-up recently about another piece of street art in the central city. It took me a wee while to sort out my jou...

The "Columbia", as she was in pre-"Show Boat" days. Auckland Star 28 September 1926 Avondale local historian Eric...

In the course of a few weeks' time the new tepid salt water swimming baths which are being built at Freeman's Bay by the Auckl...