Official Bay just to the left of Point Britomart in the centre. Copy of an oil painting by Samuel Stuart showing Auckland waterfront. Ref...

It doesn’t pay to always take a photograph at face value. Certainly, they are a valuable resource in the quest to find out more about the p...

Today being a fine day, and at the end of Auckland Heritage Festival, I trotted out as one of 20,000 holders of a free ticket to see Ali...

Text of a talk I gave on Lynfield this morning, for Auckland Heritage Festival. Lynfield: from coastal wilderness to modern suburbia.

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...