Yesterday, I visited Archives NZ at Mangere. Amongst a wealth of info on bus companies, court cases, land deals and whatnot -- I asked...

Updated 1 November 2013. At the time of writing this, I'm working on finding out what I can about the names on the above roll of ...

Very approximate extent of William William's original land claim (in yellow, down to the Manukau Harbour coastline), overlaid on 18...

Lemuel Lyes, a collector of things historical and admin of the excellent website History Geek , made an excellent recent purchase of a d...

All credit due to a heritage researcher at Auckland Council, who has found references in Paper's Past to what was the first of Avondale...

Luna Park, at the end, 8 March 1931. Ref  4-7856, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections Said Sam to Sue, “What shall we do? I’m f...

This image, from Lyn Dear’s collection, dates from 1922 six years after the Ponsonby Boys Brass Band had started in 1916. PONSONBY ...

The Railway Terminus Hotel at the right, c. 1871. From Manukau Progress , 1960. Onehunga local historian GGM Mitchell, in a series of...

  Originally published 10 August 2013 on Facebook Timespanner. Dear Auckland War Memorial Museum, I do get it when you folks say that...

David Verran of the Auckland Research Centre at the central library gave me permission to photograph and put this online. The Library ar...

The Prince Albert Hotel, Queen Street, Onehunga (left), 1878. Image taken looking south toward the Manukau Harbour. Reference 4-1384, Si...