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A Short History of Birkenhead A Young Lad's Life in the 20's - Glad Durham
A Nasty Four Lettered Word - WORK- Glad Durham My Mothers Story - Margaret Paine
A History Of Anglican Worship In Birkenhead - Alec Utting Beach Haven/Birkdale Wharf - W J Hilder
Beach Haven - The First Time I ever Saw This Place - Tess Franklin Birkdale on the Shore - Glad Durham
Birkdale Forever - Cliff Utting BIRKENHEAD 1790 - 1906 Timeline
Birkdale and Beach Haven Telegraph Service Birkenhead 1902
Birkenhead The Name - Brian Potter Birkenhead 1888 - 1988
Birkenhead 1903 Birkenhead Coastline Tour
Birkenhead Centenary Birkenhead Wharf to Highbury as it used to be
Birkenhead's Last Picture Show Blennerhassett
The Catholic Cemetery Catholic Worship in Northcote-Birkenhead
Chelsea Village Chelsea Cottages

The Chelsea Sugar Refinery Wages Edward Farrington

Changing Highbury

Christmas Dinner at the Fordhams - 1919

The Darling Bays of Mud

Early Days In Northcote1936-1957

Early Birkenhead and Birkdale
FRANK LARKING - MAN OF THE PEOPLE Excerpts from The Tatler 1922
Highway Holdup in Birkdale Ferry memories
I Remember Growing Up in Birkenhead in the early 1900s
Life in Birkdale and Birkenhead Holidays at the Bay in the 1920's and 1920's
Memories Joe
Memoirs of a Grocer’s Daughter In the 1940s. Lets Go Shopping - Brian Potter
Milk The Mosquito Fleet

My Childhood in Birkdale.

MAORI AND PAKEHA ON THE NORTH SHORE, 1840 - 1926.
The Northcote Fuel Tank Farm to 1989 Memories – What are Memories
Old Birkenhead Names

Methodist Worship in Birkenhead - Alec Utting

Pioneering in the 1950’s My Arrival in Auckland
Ranch House Percy Allison & Barbara Doyle Northcote 1821 - 1964
Robed Choir - All Saints Anglican Church Odd Bods From Birkenhead
Some of my first 90 years Philip Callan - Early settler of Birkenhead and Northcote
Strawberrys and things Presbyterians in Northcote & Birkenhead - Alec Utting
The Beach Haven Star Boys Road Works in Mokoia Road
The Ferry and I Settling in Birkdale
The True Beach Haven - Ray Johanson Specials
The Verran House at the Corner Sugar Bag Days
Whats in a Name The Postie
Zion Hill Reminiscences by Norman Wilson Unsung Heroes
Where Birkenhead Meets the World Washdays in the 30's
Women and Children First Clement L Wragge
Christmas Break Up at Sharpes. 1952 New Years Resolutions
The Lagoon Santa Comes to Island Bay

Birkenhead’s Oakley Quarry

Our Neighbours from Scotland
Christmas Afternoon at Hinemoa Park Birkenhead Orchards
   
   

Members Stories about other Places

A Dropper's Paradise

A Journey

A Working Mother

Amberry's Milk Run

Christmas 1953

Christmas Treats

Eketahuna Ellerslie Racecourse
Germany – Army of Occupation Grampa's 90th
J C Sharlands Message Boy

John and Emily Fairburn

Life on the Waipapa Dam (1957) Louis
Memories Milking
Motoring in the twenties My Bicycle and me
My Early Years My First Train Journey out of Auckland 50 years ago
Our First Cat Rosalie My Darling

Sarah Ann Shepherd

Sketch From My Life
Something to Crow About The Dunny
The Honeymoon

The Lying in State of HRH King George VI

The Polio Epidemic The Two Georges
Easter 1968 Waikato Born and Bred
Waitara The Water Diviner
Water Melons UNCLE CHARLIE’S MEDAL.
Immigrating to New Zealand  
   
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
 
Typhoid Outbreak CROWN LANDS NORTHCOTE DISTRICT
ACCIDENT AT BIRKENHEAD BIRKENHEAD AND NORTHCOTE FRUIT AND FLOWER SHOW.
BIRKENHEAD TOWN HALL BIRKENHEAD TELEPHONE CHARGES.
GARDEN PARTY AT BIRKENHEAD PROPOSED BIRKENHEAD SCHOOL
FREE TRIP TO ZOO AGREEMENT REACHED ON BUS STOPS.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

 

 

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