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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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