Theatre managers advertised ‘White Christmas’ as a new motion picture unlike any seen in New Zealand before.
Remembering Christmas’s of times gone by.
Signalman Kenneth Scott’s letters from the Solomon Islands during World War Two.
The Public Works Department engineer who built top secret Northland defences in World War Two.
William Carthew arrived on the West Coast of New Zealand in 1866 and prospected for gold for about five years.
HMS Indefatigable’s visit to Picton on it’s return from the Pacific fighting the Imperial Japanese at Okinawa and Japan.
A look at the private life of Lady Eliza and Sir George Grey.
Leslie Adkin, a renaissance man of sorts used photography to bring to life the characters and their personalities in a way rarely seen in the 1900s.
A look at one of the Eltham’s most distinctive features - it’s famous toy wall.
John Stackhouse shares memories of his grandmother and his beloved boston buns.
Cleaner to fireman to driver was Peter O’Brien’s progress within the locomotive branch of the New Zealand Railways.
Di Morris writes of the trials and tribulations of South Canterbury settlers.
Wayne Batchelar writes of the history of the ‘Willowbank’ farm – now the site of Massey University.
Michael Toohey investigates the origins of cycling in New Zealand.
Remembering the ‘most up-to-date retail grocery outlet’ in Tauranga in the years after World War Two.
Bathing was a different procedure in the 1940s for the Julian family compared to modern day conveniences.
John Grant recalls searching for uranium ore in New Zealand.
Sue Bye details the vital role played by the ship’s surgeon on voyages to and around New Zealand.
Gertrude Burgoyne’s journey from Dunedin to Te Kao in 1899.