Detail from 1957 Whites Aviation image, showing the large glasshouses complex at 5-7 Riversdale Road. Today, this site is now housing. Nat...

  A 1966 view of Kaukapkapa Railway Station and surrounds, showing 1. the West Coast Road (SH 16) level crossing; 2. the site of the impact ...

  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...