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Wednesday, March 12, 2025

In search of the Grafton Ghost

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This spirited article from one of my favourite 19th century Auckland newspapers, the Observer , 10 August 1889. OBSERVER EXPEDITION OF FREE...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

The unfinished St Pauls of Symonds Street

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  Google street view image 2022, and artist's impression of the intended full project from NZ Herald , 12 June 1894. I've often wond...
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Saturday, October 19, 2024

A New Zealand Senior Citizen Advocacy timeline

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  "Elderly man and woman," Berry & Co, 1920s, Wellington. B.046771, Te Papa Museum collection.  This will definitely be a work...
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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