White Swan Road in Mt Roskill. A swan's neck? Someone who kept swans? Named in honour, for some reason, of the June 1862 wreck off the W...

Image: NZ Herald 3 August 1927 Here is a man for whom the legacy, 160 years after his birth, of the enduring fame he had intended for himse...

  A young immigrant, having served his country during World War II, travelled to New Zealand for a new life. Here, he found love, but he als...

Mt Eden Gaol as it was a few years after the incident, in the 1870s. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 4-155   I don’t know about you,...

 Image from NZ Police Gazette , 2 October 1912 "Keith Russell Jones, a well-dressed young fellow of 23, who had come only recently from...

  Image from NZ Police Gazette , 1 October 1913 Martha Tainui. Her place in New Zealand criminal history is that she had a record stretching...

Image: NZ Police Gazette , 4 November 1914. Thomas Francis Hill (DOB noted in the military file as 1890, but could be wrong) seems to have j...

  "The Eight Hour Day Committee", 1890, image by Winifred Gladys Rainbow. Really, the six signatories to the illuminated address p...