Images: Left – Mayor Gunson, 1920, 1093-ALBUM-214-11, Sir George Grey Special Collections  Centre – Kosie Theatre building, April 201...

(I'll be adding to this as time goes on as it is also permits). Port Nicholson to New Zealand’s capital Wellington’s story, as with...

(Image: NZ Herald 24 April 1934) 'PLANE STOLEN. CRASH IN DARKNESS AT MANGERE 'DROME. "FLYING TO AUSTRALIA." B...

At the July 2017 meeting of the Whau Local Board, the Board’s members approved naming a new street in Avondale, just off Sandy Lane near As...

It started with a phone call from someone who wanted to know where her great-grandfather Samuel Albert Nelmes had lived in Avondale, in th...

Updated 15 August 2019 In Auckland in the 1890s, two men from different civilisations would cross each other’s path in the course of the ...

Overlay of the camp areas, on 1940 aerial of the racecourse. 1940  September  1st Battalion, Auckland Regiment, have daily parad...

Above is how the Orange Coronation Hall looked back in 2006. Previous blog post here . Yesterday -- this is the new Orange. Tony ...