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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Thames (NZ): Missing people at Butt's Corner, Pollen Street c1870

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Just a quick post about 'ghost' figures or rather figures that appear as a blur in the early photographs of the Thames. Now to one...
Thursday, January 9, 2020

Thames (NZ): Finding / Making Panoramic Views of Thames

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Do you love looking at photos of the old Thames Goldfield? Trying to recognise landmarks and where the photo was taken? May be you have a ...
Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Thames (NZ): Newspapers on the Thames Goldfield

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Introduction Perusing old newspapers is one of my favourite activities. While websites like Papers Past ( New Zealand) rivals anything ava...
Sunday, January 5, 2020

Thames (NZ): Shortland & Grahamstown on the Map

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While the blog has featured maps in the past , the search for those specific to Thames is always of interest when trying to identify past an...
Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Thames (NZ): News Years Honours - any Thamesites?

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Just a quick shout-out regarding the New Years Honours List 2020. I didn't recognise any Thames names (born / lived here), but if you ...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Thames (NZ): Jacarandas add colour around the town

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Let me start, by saying I am no tree expert, merely a gardener with too many camellias! There is one tree though that has always captured my...
Saturday, December 28, 2019

Thames (NZ): 100 years ago - roll on 1920

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Introduction THAMES STAR, 29 DECEMBER 1919 As we near the end of 1919, lets take a moment to look back one hundred years and consider w...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

Thames (NZ): 1973 Message for Thamesites concerning Telephone Calls

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Background (From blog 27 November 2011 ) When did Thames get the telephone?  In the Thames Star 6/3/1891 , it was stressed that Thames ne...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

Thames (NZ): Checkout the 2019 History Gems

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Tourist / History Attractions at The Thames Before 1900, what did our Thamesites and their visitors consider to be "worth seeing...
Friday, December 20, 2019

Thames (NZ): Hetherington Shop advertisement

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The business folk of Thames were great entrepreneurs, the successful ones that is! There were hundreds of shops, of all variety on the Tham...