The steam ferry  Toroa on the Waitematā harbour, 1950s. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections T0470 (Guest post from the Toroa Preserva...

  One of the overdue projects I’m working on during this continuing pandemic is an index of all the issues of the Avondale Historical Journa...

At 63 Riversdale Road in Avondale, there stands a protected, heritage scheduled Norfolk Pine. About 80 metres away in Riversdale Reserve sta...

From around 1926 to late 1935, Cecil Hastings Herdson and his dental practice was part of the developing suburb of Avondale. He used the roo...

One thing with going back to a research project that's been simmering away for a few years on the ol' back burner, is that things ca...

Once again, a dip into the Christchurch Press snippets online from the 1950s has brought up a snapshot of life in Point Chevalier. “Mr...

  (Left) The Press (Christchurch) 2 May 1951 The news snippet at right caught my attention one day. Hard to miss a report of someone paintin...

The Elephant House at Auckland Zoo. Detail from Henry Winkelmann image, 1-W0652, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections This year, Auckland...

Part of the block of West Queen Street between Wyndham (left) and Swanson Streets, from 1865. David Snodgrass' bakery would have been ar...

The three faces of the United Service Hotel, corner Queen and Wellesley Street West, Auckland. Originally called the Rifle Volunteers Hotel ...

 4-86, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections [detail] The highlighted building in this c.1866 image of Wellesley Street West was Samuel He...

  536-Album-285-10-1, c.1864, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections The old Market Reserve block on Queen Street (at right, Aotea Square t...

View looking along Queen Street from near Karangahape Road, c.1860s. 4-399, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections One Saturday night in Ma...

 4-418, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections [detail] The highlighted building, I believe, was the one used by Harriet Powley for her mil...