Bye-bye Big Tree

Big Tree – it’s an advertisement for benzine. You can only just make out the words on the roof of the wharf shed. They were on the other side too for a few years. This “new” Government wharf  opened in 1927. Several years later Lord...
Someone to Buttonhole

Someone to Buttonhole

Russell Town Council 1956-9 Original photo © Russell Museum This photo shows the members of the Russell Town Council 1956-9 seated outside the entrance to the Russell Library. The room that the library now uses as a workroom was the Town Council room where meetings...
The High Place

The High Place

Original photo © Russell Museum Leo White’s Singer car on Maiki hill in 1930. This photo shows Leo White’s little Singer car believed to have been the first car to drive up to the flagstaff on Maiki hill in 1930. Leo worked for the Auckland Weekly News as a...
Summer by the Sea

Summer by the Sea

Original photo © Russell Museum Phyllis Boucher congratulates Charlie Baker Long hot summer days draw locals and visitors to the beach whether Kororareka Bay, Oneroa or Tapeka. Locals too enjoy a swim, particularly our children who learn to swim as naturally as they...
Summer Bounty

Summer Bounty

Original photo © Russell Museum Percy Kydd with delicious bounty Here is Percy Kydd with the result of a summer dive in the Bay, a photo taken by Warkworth photographer Tudor Collins in the1950s. Percy was one of a family of 12 children whose parents were David Henry...