Monday, August 24, 2020
The Glen Eden Strawberries and Cream scandal
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(Left) Portrait of Christopher James Parr, former mayor of Auckland, and Reform Party candidate for Eden in the 1919 general elections, f...
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Friday, August 21, 2020
The Cardwell Street Murder, New Lynn, 1928
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(left) 1st Viscount Cardwell, and (right) detail from 1865 map of New Lynn, NZ Map 4498-5, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections In a p...
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Saturday, July 11, 2020
William Newell: the £22,000 man
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On Tuesday 9 February 1943, the readers of the NZ Herald that morning would have found this bit of news as they sipped their tea and ate th...
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Smoothing Coburg Street in the late 1880s
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Image from Webbs Auction site, accessed July 2020 The image above came online, and I found it intriguing. The caption said it was the site o...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
"Good-bye now. I am off to Aussie": Frederick Demchy's short and disastrous flight, 1945
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"Loading Lockheed Lodestar 'Karoro' aircraft." May 1945.Ref: WA-01296-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Z...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Avondale’s Racecourse by the River Part 2: Surrounded by Change (1923-2019)
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Spring racing at Avondale, from Auckland Weekly News 27 September 1923, AWNS-19230927-47-1, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections ...
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