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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Albert Graven and his Avondale Central Service Station

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Detail from JTD-24A-03278-2, December 1967, J T Diamond, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections Published in the June 2023 issue of The Avo...
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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...
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