Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Alfred Ramsden and his hotel
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The New Lynn Hotel, 1890s. JTD-11A-04959, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections The old New Lynn Hotel at 3178 Great North Road exists ...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Howard Nattrass and the "typiste-flapper"
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Image: Free Lance , 3 November 1920 This is a story that someone, seriously, should take up and make a doco about. The NZ Truth described...
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Monday, October 24, 2022
The Riversdale Road gas emergency, 1975
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Detail from 1957 Whites Aviation image, showing the large glasshouses complex at 5-7 Riversdale Road. Today, this site is now housing. Nat...
Green Light Mystery: the 1952 Kaukapakapa Rail Accident
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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 ...
Monday, August 29, 2022
Toroa, the last steam ferry
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The steam ferry Toroa on the Waitematā harbour, 1950s. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections T0470 (Guest post from the Toroa Preserva...
Friday, August 5, 2022
An ordinary family: the Crees in Avondale and Waterview
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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...
John Watson’s trees: the Boy Who Ran
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At 63 Riversdale Road in Avondale, there stands a protected, heritage scheduled Norfolk Pine. About 80 metres away in Riversdale Reserve sta...
Cecil Herdson, and his gold-toothed dog
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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...
That certain Ligar Canal image ...
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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...
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