Tuesday, December 31, 2019

“The Hairbreadth Train Affair” at Otahuhu, 1911 – the heroism of Francis Arthur Claude

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On the southern side of Portage Road in Otahuhu, around number 130, the Auckland Saleyards Company used to have their stock pens from the 1...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

When a rusty pistol fired once -- the death of William John Turner, 1945

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SCHOOLBOY SHOT  PLAYING WITH PISTOL  OLD RUSTY WEAPON  NOT AWARE OF DANGER  "It is disturbing that any boy of secondary scho...
Sunday, April 14, 2019

Peace bonfires on Mount Eden, 1919

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"Showing a bonfire on Mount Eden for the peace celebrations at the end of the First World War," 19 July 1919.  Auckland Lib...
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A Pleasant Point Railway Easter

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Bryan Blanchard from the Pleasant Point Museum and Railwa y sent these in the other day, writing: "Easter 2018 with The Silly Old Stati...
Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Ellen Melville, the Kosie vote splitter

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Images: Left – Mayor Gunson, 1920, 1093-ALBUM-214-11, Sir George Grey Special Collections  Centre – Kosie Theatre building, April 201...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Early Chinese in Wellington

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(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...
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Friday, July 27, 2018

"We are borrowing one of your 'planes": an early theft from Mangere Aerodrome

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(Image: NZ Herald 24 April 1934) 'PLANE STOLEN. CRASH IN DARKNESS AT MANGERE 'DROME. "FLYING TO AUSTRALIA." B...
Friday, August 4, 2017

When the "Queen of the Goths" won the first Avondale Cup

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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...
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Minding other people’s children — Samuel Albert Nelmes

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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...