When Santa visited Warren Duff in 1949, it left an indelible memory and a legacy that continues to this day.
Commercialism may have changed some of the ways we celebrate Christmas but the spirit remains the same, reflects Bev Wood.
New Zealand’s third Christmas stamp, a depiction of the ‘Madonna in Prayer’ was chosen as the world’s most beautiful stamp of 1962.
Jimmy, flew on three Pacific tours during World War Two, achieving ‘ace’ status by shooting down four Japanese fighters, and sharing in another kill.
The story of a little mallard duck who found his way home.
In 1893, a threatening masked figure came striding into the elegant Criterion, pistol in hand, demanding money.
It began as a journey of hope ... With 433 passengers, including 125 women and 126 children, the Cospatrick departed England in 1874, on a voyage bound for New Zealand.
Alan Papprill shares his memories of time spent in the Boys Brigade.
In the early morning of 10 January 1928 an attempt to complete the first flight across the Tasman Sea was undertaken.
In the last year of the 19th century, Frederick Osborne Bentley, aged only 15, was sent by his family to the other side of the world.
During a time of peace, came shocking news. Every boy from 12 to 21 years old must register for compulsory military training.
‘A clever bugger’ who invented and designed a ‘heavier than air’ machine that could fly.
Billy Mouat, along with his two sons, Don and Max, saw something in their land that no one else could.
Described by the press of the day as ‘steam canoe’ she was a peculiar iron craft traversing the water.
Peter Averi provides an insight into his broadcasting career in New Zealand.
The Waitaki High School’s Hall of Memories is a war memorial both unique in design and function.
A look at the design of hospitals and related buildings in the first few decades of the 20th century.
