Wednesday, August 23, 2023
The disappearance of Walter Ashton, 1948
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Portrait of Walter Ashton by Clifton Firth, 21 April 1941. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 34-A32. Walter Ashton disappeared from ...
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
The battle for "Wolverton Park"
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The Avondale side of Te KÅtuitanga Olympic Park, briefly known as “Wolverton Park” during the 1970s bureaucratic stoush. Google street vi...
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 ...
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