Postcard purchased June 2013. At front, left, Peat's gift shop, and his Treasure House. Rear, left, Alec Bishop's house; at right...

Glass-house tomatoes; New Windsor brand, grown by A. A. Currey, Avondale. 20 lbs. nett. Unity Press Ltd. [1930-50]. Reference Number: Ep...

Customs Street East, and Point Britomart, 1876-1878. From Auckland Harbour Board Album 68, page 1, Bill Laxon Maritime Library, Voyager N...

Social media still doesn't thrill me to bits, but if it can help with at least one thing, it's useful. A lot of pain-in-the-you-kno...

Garth Houltham of the Mt Roskill (Puketapapa) Historical has worked very hard since 2011 to put together a genealogical database of folk who...

I received some enquiries in recent weeks as to the history of the site and buildings at the Avondale Community Centre, 97-99 Rosebank Ro...

Well, after months of prevarication, here it is. I'd still term this a work in progress. I have to fix up some formatting, a bit of t...

Postcard of the Waitomo Caves Hotel. Tourism reached the glow worm caves at Waitomo in the late 1880s, around the time the tourist boo...

A bit of lost Auckland, via a postcard purchased from overseas. On the back is written: "This YWCA here is the 2nd largest in the...

Continuing from this post. Photography by Greg Kempthorne Another email today from the State Highway 16 Causeway Upgrade Project f...

A postcard featuring a set of lost ruins in New Zealand -- I couldn't resist. The card is dated 1910, which seems likely. In 1906 (s...