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Prospect

The Society's annual journal, Prospect, was first published in 2002.

Members are encouraged to submit articles and photographs for Prospect .

Topics large and small relating to the history of the Epsom and Mt Eden areas are all welcome as you can see from the contents lists below. This includes stories about families, schools, transport, properties and anecdotes, to list just a few.

Articles are collected by the editor until the end of March. Publication is normally July/August each year.

Copies of Volumes 1-4 are available at a cost of $7.50. Volumes 5-6 at a cost of $8.00 from prospect@epsom-eden.org.nz.

Vol 1, 2002 CONTENTS

2 Keith Fuller The Auckland Grammar School War Memorial
3 Jill Richards Glimpses of a Mt Eden Doctor: Dr J.F.G. Richards
6 Jim Millar Early days of Presbyterianism in Epsom
10 Keith Fuller The place of Riukiuta-Te Tatua (Three Kings)
15 G. Bush
I. Crabtree
J. Grant
World War 11- through children's eyes
21 John Stacpoole Stone Houses: an address to the Epsom & Eden District Historical Society, 2001
31 Jeanette Grant Pre-supermarket shopping
41 Muriel Williams Dogs - an anecdote from the 1920s
44 Helen Laurenson Were we amused? Some reflections on the theatre in Auckland in 1883.

Vol 2, 2003 CONTENTS

2 Graham Bush The Epsom History Project - a progress report
3 Valerie Ayers The Epsom windmill
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Ron Carter
Frances Rountree
Jeanette Grant
Trolleys
11 Mary Dobbie ‘Moorend’ and its legendary hospitality
16 Muriel Williams Epsom Methodist Sunday School
18 Jill Richards Dr Dorothy Richards
23 Jeanette Grant Out of sight, out of mind -'the bunker'
38 John Stacpoole A comment on the `Kelly House'
40 Ann Baxter Round and round the mountain --1968-2002
45 Keith Fuller The mauri stone - Te Toka to Whenua
52 Jeanette Grant Francis Sinclair of `The Pines' 1834-'1916; notes taken from Hugh Laracy's talk to the Society
56 Owen Kendall St Barnabas history

Vol 3, 2004 CONTENTS

2 Christine Black Bew's School: Mt Eden Collegiate School 1895-1914
6 Jeanette Grant Dr Bruce Golden
10 C.E. Keith Fuller The Cornwall Park Olives: their failure - a hypothesis
17 Muriel Williams The Queens Birthday
18 Valerie Sherwood The Royal Oak Hotel
22 Mary Dobbie Herbert Boucher Dobbie - ferns man
27 Jeanette Grant Lava Caves: fact or fancy?
36 Bryan Boon Early Golf in Auckland and Epsom
39 Ann Baxter Robert Rees Remembers
43 R Graeme Gummer The Crossroads
51 Mavis Fenelon Memorials and Memories
55 C E Keith Fuller A road by any other name: the riddle of St Andrews Road

Vol 4, 2005 CONTENTS

2 Jack Baker From the Pacific to the Tasman - The only coast to coast tramway in the world
9 Edna Griffith Horse-drawn buses
12 Muriel Williams The day of the go-slow strike
14 Jeanette Grant My tram trivia
15 Jack Baker Fond memories of the Regent, Epsom, in the 30s and 40s
19 Jeanette Grant Ruth Coyle of the Rutland Group
28 Joyce Roberts & Jeanette Grant The RSR railway in Kimberley Road
33 Jeanette Grant Household medicine
40 Ella Greenwood Greenwoods Corner and the southern part of Epsom
45 Helen Laurenson The Crystal Palace, Mt Eden - 'The Theatre Luxurious'

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Bryan Boon

Partying in the early 1930s

 

Vol 5, 2006 CONTENTS

 

 

 2      Mavis Fënelon                  Matareka

 

10     Jim Millar                         Janet and Greenwoods Corner

 

16     Gail Griffin                        The part that Eden and Epsom

                                                have played in my life

 

22     Jeanette Grant                 The library that never was

 

25     Muriel Williams                 Royal Oak School and the essay competition

 

27     Linda Cocks &      The origin of the St Andrews font

         Jeanette Grant

 

30     Harold Stone                    The buried guns of New Zealand

 

32     Jeanette Grant                  Cooking, from the range to the microwave

 

42      David Armishaw               Auckland Teachers' College - reminiscences

                                                of the 1960s

 

43      Norma Bush                    Interview with Mr Stacey Cox

 

48      Helen Laurenson              Hearts and soles

 

54      Jeanette Grant                 A victim of its own success

 

 

 

Vol 6, 2007 CONTENTS

 

2      John Stacpoole               Construction of Old Government House

 

11    Norma Bush                   The Stirling Garden Centre

 

16    Bryan Boon                     Places in Mt Eden registered with the

                                             Historic Places Trust

 

20    Graham Bush                 Piers Nicholson and the England Epsom

 

23    Jeanette Grant                Eden Enterprises

 

29     Eric Laurenson              Wheels over Kakariki

 

34    Valerie Sherwood            How the fight for the Epsom Community

                                             House was won

 

42     Eric Laurenson               Kerbstones

 

44    John Stacpoole               Old social life, Old Government House

 

55     Basil Hutchinson            Well-drilling in Epsom

 



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