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Keith Fuller, The Auckland Grammar School War Memorial
Jill Richards, Glimpses of a Mt Eden Doctor: Dr J.F.G. Richards
Jim Millar, Early days of Presbyterianism in Epsom
Keith Fuller, The place of Riukiuta-Te Tatua (Three Kings)
G. Bush, I. Crabtree, J. Grant, World War II – through children’s eyes
John Stacpoole, Stone Houses: an address to the Epsom & Eden District Historical Society, 2001
Jeanette Grant, Pre-supermarket shopping
Muriel Williams, Dogs – an anecdote from the 1920s
Helen Laurenson, Were we amused? Some reflections on the theatre in Auckland in 1883
Graham Bush, The Epsom History Project – a progress report
Valerie Ayers, The Epsom windmill
Ron Carter, Frances Rountree, Jeanette Grant, TROLLEYS
Mary Dobbie, ‘Moorend’ and its legendary hospitality
Muriel Williams, Epsom Methodist Sunday School
Jill Richards, Dr Dorothy Richards
Jeanette Grant, Out of sight, out of mind – ‘the bunker’
John Stacpoole, A comment on the `Kelly House’
Ann Baxter, Round and round the mountain -1968-2002
Keith Fuller, The mauri stone – Te Toka tu Whenua
Jeanette Grant, Francis Sinclair of ‘The Pines’ 1834-1916 notes taken from Hugh Laracy’s talk to the Society
Owen Kendall, St Barnabas history
Christine Black, Bews’ School : Mt Eden Collegiate School 1895-1914
Jeanette Grant, Dr Bruce Golden
C.E. Keith Fuller, The Cornwall Park Olives: their failure – a hypothesis
Muriel Williams, The Queen’s Birthday
Valerie Sherwood, The Royal Oak Hotel
Mary Dobbie, Herbert Boucher Dobbie – ferns man
Jeanette Grant, Lava Caves: fact or fancy?
Bryan Boon, Early Golf in Auckland and Epsom
Ann Baxter, Robert Rees Remembers
R. Graeme Gummer, The Crossroads
Mavis Fenelon, Memorials and Memories
CE Keith Fuller, A road by any other name: the riddle of St Andrews Road
Jack Baker, From the Pacific to the Tasman – The only coast to coast tramway in the world
Edna Griffith, Horse-drawn buses
Muriel Williams, The day of the go-slow strike
Jeanette Grant, My tram trivia
Jack Baker, Fond memories of the Regent, Epsom, in the 30s and 40s
Jeanette Grant, Ruth Coyle of the Rutland Group
Joyce Roberts & Jeanette Grant, The RSR railway in Kimberley Road
Jeanette Grant, Household medicine
Ella Greenwood, Greenwoods Corner and the southern part of Epsom
Helen Laurenson, The Crystal Palace, Mt Eden – ‘The Theatre Luxurious’
Bryan Boon, Partying in the early 1930s
Mavis Fenelon, Matareka
Jim Millar, Janet and Greenwoods Corner
Gail Griffin, The part that Eden and Epsom have played in my life
Jeanette Grant, The library that never was
Muriel Williams, Royal Oak School and the essay competition
Linda Cocks & Jeanette Grant, The origin of the St Andrews font
Harold Stone, The buried guns of New Zealand
Jeanette Grant, Cooking, from the range to the microwave
David Armishaw, Auckland Teachers’ College – reminiscences of the 1960s
Norma Bush, Interview with Mr Stacey Cox
Helen Laurenson, Hearts and soles
Jeanette Grant, A victim of its own success
John Stacpoole, Construction of Old Government House
Norma Bush, The Stirling Garden Centre
Bryan Boon, Places in Mt Eden registered with the Historic Places Trust
Graham Bush, Piers Nicholson and the England Epsom
Jeanette Grant, Eden Enterprises
Eric Laurenson, Wheels over Kakariki
Valerie Sherwood, How the fight for the Epsom Community House was won
Eric Laurenson, Kerbstones
John Stacpoole, Old social life, Old Government House
Basil Hutchinson, Well-drilling in Epsom
Jack Baker, Auckland’s Everton
Bryan Boon, Places in Epsom registered with the Historic Places Trust (Part II)
Ian Thwaites, Ruth Mary Coyle
Helen Laurenson, That takes the biscuit
Christine Black, Epsom Girls’ Grammar School: 1917 – 2008
Jeanette Grant, Decline and fall of the Eden-Roskill RSA
C. E. Keith Fuller, The Quarrymen of Three Kings, Auckland
Hugh Laracy, Dominion Day: was it ‘merely cosmetic’?
Valerie Sherwood, Citizen and scientist: Algernon Withiel Thomas
Bryan Boone, The Californian Bungalow
Joan Butler, Eric Laurenson & Jeanette Grant, Right to the Door
Norma Bush, The Real Mackie
Graham Bush, The Epsom Well
Graham Bush, A Tribute to Professor David Cole
Jim Millar, Wairoa and Epsom
Olive Clarke, Teacher Training in the 1920s
Veronica Friedlander, London to Auckland in 1955
C. E. Keith Fuller, God Defend New Zealand
Jeanette Grant, Eden Edifices
John Grant, My Auckland in 1955
Basil Hutchinson, Dr Torrance’s Street
Eric Laurenson, Preservation and Progress
Don McArthur, Normal School changes during World War II
John Stacpoole, Ian Beresford Madden
Ian Thwaites, Hilda Wiseman, artist
Norma Bush, Once a trammie always a trammie
Jeanette Grant, The Epsom Community Centre Inc
Jack Baker, The Epsom Bowling Club’s early years
Margaret Barriball, Charles and Ann Barriball and family
C. E. Keith Fuller, Three Kings Grove
Olive Stubbs, Classroom chronicles 1928-1963
Bob Kinnear, Henry Woods of Mt Eden
Betty Barnes, A local dairy
Jack Baker, Dad’s cars
Jeanette Grant, Petrol rationing in New Zealand
Bryan Boon, May to August 1945
Joan Butler, Washday blues
Val Sherwood, Welcomed by strangers: William Low
Christine Black, My Epsom villa
Jeanette Grant, Spending a penny
Jack Baker, Eden Park’s early years
Cynthia Landels, My story, that of a bungalow
Valerie Sherwood, Withiel Drive: Glimpses of the first 50 years
Jeanette Grant, Thomas Aubrey Chappe Hall, 1873-1958
Josephine Power, Josephine’s phrases
Bryan Boon, A gentleman’s residence
Jeanette Grant, Bert Bannister and the ‘Maori Motorbike’
Christine Black, Now you see it, now you don’t!
Helen Laurenson, Remember, remember the 5th of November
Roger Bartley, My memories of the Sharpe Road area
Jock Carnachan, Jottings: Shipherds Avenue history
C. E. Keith Fuller, St Andrews Reserve
Jack Baker, Three little streets
Eric Laurenson, Hooves over Kakariki
Leslie Truscott, My grandfather was the mayor (Recorded and transcribed by Norma Bush)
Muriel Williams, Elizabeth (Bessie) Kendon (nee Blomfield)
Jeanette Grant, Things we take for granted
Gwen Stone, The Mt St John garage
Basil Hutchinson, Meccano and Hornby Trains in Epsom
Valerie Sherwood, Pawns of fortune: the Cleghorn family
Josephine Power, Thomas Sheridan: prisoner of war
Jeanette & Reay Grant, The 1984 Queen Street riot
Valerie Sherwood, Jean Batten living in Epsom
Martin Thomas, A critical review of the evidence in regard to ‘New Zealand’s First Stone House’, 753 Mt Eden Rd
Paul Waite, A heritage betrayed
Jeanette Grant, Under threat
Valerie Sherwood, A Christmas holiday in Central Otago
Christine Black, First Mt Eden Collegiate School 1887-1892
Helen Laurenson, Two for tea: the Mt Eden tea kiosk
Jeanette Grant, Growing up with guns
Valerie Sherwood, Alfred Domett
Helen Laurenson, Early schools in Auckland
Jeanette Grant, Time Out
Cynthia Landels, A postscript to my story of a bungalow
Graham Bush, Epsom Road Board members
Brian Davis, J. P. Moulin and the Stonyhurst subdivision
Peter Friedlander, Preserving Auckland’s volcanic cone
Jeanette Grant, Two Mt Eden reserves
Mavis Fenelon, Epsom Memorial Arch – ANZAC Service
Helen Laurenson, The trouper and her trooper
Valerie Sherwood, Amy Maria Hellaby
John Adrian Speer, Writing off a regiment
Hugh Laracy, Introducing Captain William Ross: an ‘Epsom Salt’
Lisa Truttman, A misleading date: Alfred Cucksey and his Mt Eden store
Helen & Eric Laurenson, Mt Eden misinformation cast in bronze
John La Roche, Mount Eden’s water supply
Jack Baker, My roaring forties
Helen Laurenson, Two Epsom names on a Mount Eden honours board
Jeanette Grant, Mount Eden School 1877
Graham Bush, Burnnand’s Band at the ‘Epsom Trots’
Valerie Sherwood, Dr Constance Helen Frost
Jeanette Grant, The Udy family of Mount Eden
Geoff Fisher, Memories growing up in Epsom and Newmarket
Cynthia Landels, The changing face of St Andrews Road
Jeanette Grant, War memorials in the Eden and Epsom areas
Brian Davis, John Davis: builder, contractor, councillor
Jeanette Grant, Auckland’s first supermarket
Greg Smith, A tribute to Mrs George
Helen Laurenson, Super salesman Roy McCall
Elaine Bartley, The Doctors Walton
John Richards, A few memories of the past
Jeanette Grant, MENPS memorial gates update
Anne Sanders, The Manor Private Hospital
Helen Stowell, Mount Eden Mayoress’ Welfare Committee
Val Sherwood, Nurse Effie Warbrick of Edenholme Hospital
Natalie Taplin, Epsom reflections 1946-2014
Jennifer Wilkins, The early history of Bramwell Place
Harold Stone, Epsom memories [2002]
Graham Bush, Tenth anniversary of The History of Epsom
Grant & O. Clarke, Buying a house in wartime
Cynthia Landels, Annie Mona Burgin, a vicar’s daughter
Jeanette Grant, Quarries—now you see them, now you don’t
Val Sherwood, The origins of the New Zealand Police
Mavis Fénelon, The creation of our NZ heritage and our NZ identity
Val Sherwood, Dr Robert Vaux Zinzan
Margaret Barriball, An early 20th century immigrant to NZ
David Pittman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Mount Eden Gaol
Dr Vincent Chan, Whose house is it anyway?
Jeanette Grant, The Maungawhau School Fair
Val Sherwood, Thomas Bracken
Doris Layland, Reminiscences of my early days
Jeanette Grant, The Rev Dr Arthur Guyon Purchas
Colin Percy, Memories of an old macrocarpa
Val Sherwood, Flickers from the past: the story of Iohn Edward Batten, our first film star
Bryan Boon, Iohn Puttick, Miles Dillon, Chris Taplin, Reay Grant, Mike Grant & James McArthur, Auckland Grammar School through seven decades
Helen Laurenson, Shadows of past endeavours: Margaret White
Jeanette Grant, The domestic day
Cynthia Landels, Wash Day, way back then
Graeme MacCormack, Memories of ‘Woodend’
Natalie Taplin, How my forebears came to New Zealand
Jeanette Grant, Sheep in the city
Valerie Sherwood, Two remarkable women: Sister Duffus &…
Helen Laurenson, Dame Dorothy Winstone
Martin Thomas, Coldicutt connections
Eric & Helen Laurenson, Tale of two houses: the mansions of Princes St
Roger Morgan, Able Seaman Robert Alfred Caney
Helen Laurenson, Globe trotting
Jeanette Grant, Modern medicine — 1944 style
Helen Laurenson, The EEDHS makes history
Lisa Truttman, The canal promoter, David Bruce Russell, and his dream of a Whau River Canal
Don McArthur, School days 1937—50
lohn Grant, Educated in England 1942-53
Eric Laurenson, Life at Model Country School 1942-48
Jeanette Grant, My first day at school 1945
Jeanette Grant, How did we get here?
John Grant, Uranium hunting round Karamea
Tony Surman, Stephen Surman of Mount Eden
Brian Davis, John Davis 1856-1939
Helen Laurenson, Sir Ian Hassall, New Zealand’s first Commissioner for Children
Helen Laurenson, Tale of a ‘two~storied house’
Jeanette Grant, Book reviews
]eanette Grant, Covid-19 at home
Cynthia Landels, Covid cat & mouse
Pam Robinson, The polio epidemic 1947-48
Jeanette Grant, My family’s other epidemic stories
Geoff Fisher, What we did before TV
Helen Laurenson, Cinderella and the IYA children’s session
Jeanette Grant, NZ’s first licensed real estate agent—Christine Barfoot
Jeanette Grant, Olive Stoddard—a life of service
Lisa Truttmann, The true story of Waite’s Hall
Cynthia Landels, Coming to Auckland
Groves Teal, A letter from the past
Don McArthur, Painting of Bycroft’s Mill
Anne Else, Mount Eden 1956
GWA Bush, Epsom: archetypal tram suburb
Jeanette Grant, The end of the Epsom Community Centre era
Jeanette Grant, Editorial
Val Sherwood, Helen Barbara Laurenson (1937-2021)
Graham Bush, Tribute to Helen Laurenson
Lisa J. Truttman, Tribute to Helen Laurenson
Bob Wallath, Recollections—an Epsom schoolboy in the 1930s
Jeanette Grant, Petrol rationing in New Zealand
Miles Dillon, Spare the rod and spoil the child
Jeanette Grant, The 1953 Royal Tour of NZ
Cynthia Landels, 100 years of Guiding at St Andrew’s Church
Val Sherwood, Nurse Effie Warbrick of Edenholme Hospital
Jeanette Grant, Whare Tane — 26 Clive Road
Jeanette Grant, Boyd’s Royal Oak Zoo
Judith Wallath, Two different streets
Jeanette Grant, Robert Herman Wallath MP, 1874-1960
Margaret Barriball, Val Sherwood, Frank & Marion Trainer
Tributes to Elaine Bartley, Graeme MacCormick
& Natalie Taplin
Eric Laurenson, Time Out and EEDHS
Judith Wallath Foote prints in Epsom
Grant & Wallath A mystery to solve
Jeanette Grant 13 Kakariki Avenue
Basil Hutchinson Hydrotherapy
Alex Grant First impressions of AGS in 1983
Jeanette Grant Book review: Voices of World War II
Jeanette Grant The tunnels under Albert Park
Frances Loo Eileen Loo obituary
John Grant What NZ was like in 1955
Judith Wallath The end of the Mt Eden shot tower
Val Sherwood Lancelot Eric Richdale DSc OBE 1900-1984
Cynthia Landels My peripatetic grandfather
Linda Fletcher Anzac Day: the history of the poppy
Rosemary Speer My early nursing days in NZ
John Denny A familiar image?
Val Sherwood Mollie Spackman obituary
Jan Alldritt-Miller Number 37 Mount Eden Road
Jeanette Grant Life before plastic
Eric Laurenson Church design
Jeanette Grant The Doctors Roberton
Ian Thwaites Hilda Wiseman Part II
Ronald W. Jones Rawhiti Hospital
Louise Richardson An Anniversary Weekend like no other
Jeanette Grant Cynthia Landells 2023 will be remembered as the year of flooding
Jeanette Grant Five Auckland cemeteries
Val Sherwood Miss Ida Dorothy Cupid, 1900–1960
Jeanette Grant Depression days
Jeanette Grant Getting to school
Reay Grant Waitangi Day 1994
Cynthia Landells My final story, that of a bungalow