Sunday, July 31, 2022
The lonely death of David Snodgrass
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Part of the block of West Queen Street between Wyndham (left) and Swanson Streets, from 1865. David Snodgrass' bakery would have been ar...
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Three faces of the United Service Hotel
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The three faces of the United Service Hotel, corner Queen and Wellesley Street West, Auckland. Originally called the Rifle Volunteers Hotel ...
Anton Seuffert's first Wellesley Street workshop
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4-86, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections [detail] The highlighted building in this c.1866 image of Wellesley Street West was Samuel He...
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Collapse of the Beehive Toy and Fancy Repository, 1865
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536-Album-285-10-1, c.1864, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections The old Market Reserve block on Queen Street (at right, Aotea Square t...
The assault on Daniel Caley, 1868
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View looking along Queen Street from near Karangahape Road, c.1860s. 4-399, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections One Saturday night in Ma...
Harriet Powley, and the Queen Street Fire of 1873
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4-418, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections [detail] The highlighted building, I believe, was the one used by Harriet Powley for her mil...
William Smithson, and his Ship Inn
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Image: 4-415, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections [detail] The Trafalgar Inn on Queen Street, 1860s, between Wyndham (left) and Swanson...
Ephraim Mills, and his Market Hotel
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Detail from 4-53, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections The Market Hotel mid 1860s, at the corner of Cook Street and Grey Street (later G...
King David Sykes and his Turkish Baths
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"Looking south along Queen Street from the Wellesley St intersection, showing the premises of R H Bartlett, R Hobbs, F Hewin and Brothe...
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Thursday, April 21, 2022
Street Stories 25: Steam communication, and White Swan Road
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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...
Saturday, January 29, 2022
Hallyburton Johnstone: the complex benefactor
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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...
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Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Death on Batkin Road
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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...
Friday, July 30, 2021
The Mt Eden Gaol “Cuckoo!!” Mutiny of 1865
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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,...
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