My AccountHistory – Pioneer vintners
Wed, 18 Jun 2014
The Levet family from Ely, Cambridgeshire, were among the first Albertlanders to leave England. Charles, Kezeiah and their five children, Joseph, Charles, William, Frances and...
/HistoryHistory – I am a volunteer
Wed, 4 Jun 2014
Recently I was asked the question: “Do you still work?” My answer was: “Yes, I am a Wednesday Worker at the museum.” “Oh, you don’t...
/HistoryHistory – The Great War
Wed, 7 May 2014
The Great War (1914-18) took place when my mother was a girl. She grew up baking for basket socials and patriotic fetes to raise funds...
/HistoryHistory – The house that Harold built
Wed, 16 Apr 2014
When I consider the rigmarole involved in building a house these days, I think of how simple it was in my grandfather’s day. It was...
/HistoryHistory – Crowning glory for Warkworth
Wed, 2 Apr 2014
On the day George V was crowned King of the United Kingdom and the overseas dominions, the children of the Rodney district assembled at Warkworth...
/HistoryHistory – Gum-digging at Snells Beach
Wed, 5 Mar 2014
In 1904 Messrs J Clayden and J Parkinson discovered a substantial deposit of kauri gum on the low tide mark at Snells Beach. For three...
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