Some news of great concern came through via the latest Puketapapa Local Board meeting on 31 January that a proposal may be made soon to A...

September 21 2012 saw me visiting the Nathan Homestead on steep Hill Road, on the occasion of the launch of a heritage photo exhibition ...

Well done to the team at Auckland Council Archives! Auckland Zoo 90 Year anniversary

A postcard from my collection, unknown date. This follows on from Part 1 , on guns in the Domain. They face seaward, grim though ant...

Update 27 August 2019. I purchased the postcard above because the image intrigued me -- promoting the pantomime Aladdin here in Ne...

I'll stick my neck out and estimate that this photo is from around 1922-1924, the period John Barr was putting together his history...

For $2, I bought this photo from a seller at the Blockhouse Bay Antiques & Collectibles market yesterday. On the back was the reason...

A sure sign that my mind was in a whirl from early October 'till late December last year -- is that in not paying attention to my su...

Photographed this artwork by Sean McCarthy (2012) yesterday along Whitney Street, New Windsor. It's quite cool -- but how many woul...

This year being the 150th anniversary of the wreck of HMS Orpheus , attention is focused on that tragedy by many heritage groups around the...

At the Avondale-Waterview Historical Society meeting in December last year, a few came up to me remarking on the renaming of Saxon Rese...

Avondale College when it opened, 2 February 1945 (Auckland Star). Builders' ladders still in evidence, with conversion work still on...

I may have headed to the Zoo yesterday to see the tigers , but I did take other photos as well. There was the Galapagos Torto...