Sunday, August 25, 2024

The October 1897 Breakwater Road accident

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  Map from the City of Auckland Plan, 1908. Inset image of T W Leys senior: photo of a painting by C F Goldie, Auckland Libraries Heritage C...
Friday, September 1, 2023

"With intent to injure or annoy ..." The 1949 Blockhouse Bay milk poisoning case

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  Highlighted in this snip from a 1947 White's Aviation aerial photo is the house where Gilbert and Adrienne Honey lived with their chil...
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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 Kōtuitanga 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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