Sunday, March 27, 2016
The tales to tell of "Kernel Bell"
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These days if I, as a townie Aucklander, say the phrase "Winterless North" to my Northland friends, they'll likely roll the...
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Saturday, February 6, 2016
The leaning (water) tower of Hawera
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Reaching Hawera on a recent weekend trip with the committee of the NZ History Federation, during a petrol stop there, I looked arou...
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From Wellington to Auckland at speed - 1923
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NEW MOTOR RECORD. WELLINGTON TO AUCKLAND TIME: 15 HOURS 25 MINUTES JOURNEY THROUGH RAIN A new motor-car speed record between Auck...
Friday, December 25, 2015
Auckland's Anti-Eviction Committee, 1931
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NZ Herald 13 October 1931 From out of the desperation of the Great Depression of the late 1920s to mid 1930s, the scarcity of relie...
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Tuesday, December 8, 2015
The McLean Motor-car Act 1898
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This originated because William McLean, a Wellington businessman and member of Parliament, imported two tiller-steered Benz cars in Fe...
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Auckland Old Folks Association Coronation Hall in Gundry Street, Newton.
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What caught my eye was the bit about it being a coronation hall. I'm so used to such halls in the country being connected with mon...
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East Street Methodist Mission Hall
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East Street, off Karangahape Road, was chopped up severely by the motorway development of the 1960s-1980s. But here is a survivor I ca...
Adventures in street naming ...
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... or, things going a bit loopy in Avondale ... The image is from c.1919, and is of the house that was at 1 Trent Street in Avonda...
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Monday, November 9, 2015
Apples to thoroughbreds – the Apple Farm of Waiouru Peninsula, East Tamaki
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When I first came upon references to the Apple Farm of East Tamaki, I thought it was interesting but would be a considerably shorter story ...
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Friday, November 6, 2015
Death at Ayr Street, 1958
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(John Cardwell from the Timespanner page on Facebook did most of the research for the following, as well as provide the image of the ...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Death in Raymond Street: Peter William and Beatrice Mabel Clos, 1928
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NZ Herald 27 January 1928 The news broke for Aucklanders in the pages of the NZ Herald on the morning of 27 January 1928: two bodies...
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