Ruth Olsen

In its heyday the two-storey Waiwera Hotel, originally built by Robert Graham in the late 1800s, was popular with the rich and famous as a...

Way back in the 1870s the settlers of the Wade (now Silverdale) built a small school for their children on land donated by the Lloyd...

“The place was a hive of industry. The sound of hammer and saw rang clearly through the still frosty air into the blue and gold...

with Ruth Olsen The sailing ship SS Whirlwind arrived in Auckland in July 1859 after a tempestuous three-month voyage from England. On board were the...