Prospect

Prospect is the society's annual publication containing historical articles and memorabilia.

Copies can be obtained from the society.

Vol 1, 2002

Keith Fuller The Auckland Grammar School War Memorial

Jill Richards Glimpses of a Mt Eden Doctor: Dr J.F.G. Richards

Jim Millar Early days of Presbyterianism in Epsom

Keith Fuller The place of Riukiuta-Te Tatua (Three Kings)

G. Bush World War II – through children’s eyes

I. Crabtree

J. Grant

John Stacpoole Stone Houses: an address to the Epsom & Eden District Historical Society, 2001

Jeanette Grant Pre-supermarket shopping

Muriel Williams Dogs - an anecdote from the 1920s

Helen Laurenson Were we amused? Some reflections on the theatre in Auckland in 1883

VOL 2, 2003

Graham Bush The Epsom History Project - a progress report

Valerie Ayers The Epsom windmill

Ron Carter TROLLEYS

Frances Rountree

Jeanette Grant

Mary Dobbie ‘Moorend' and its legendary hospitality

Muriel Williams Epsom Methodist Sunday School

Jill Richards Dr Dorothy Richards

Jeanette Grant Out of sight, out of mind – ‘the bunker'

John Stacpoole A comment on the `Kelly House^'

Ann Baxter Round and round the mountain -1968-2002

Keith Fuller The mauri stone - Te Toka tu Whenua

Jeanette Grant Francis Sinclair of ‘The Pines^’ 1834-1916 notes taken from

Hugh Laracy's talk to the Society

Owen Kendall St Barnabas history

VOL 3, 2004

Christine Black Bews’ School : Mt Eden Collegiate School 1895-1914

Jeanette Grant Dr Bruce Golden

C.E. Keith Fuller The Cornwall Park Olives: their failure -- a hypothesis

Muriel Williams The Queen^'s Birthday

Valerie Sherwood The Royal Oak Hotel

Mary Dobbie Herbert Boucher Dobbie - ferns man

Jeanette Grant Lava Caves: fact or fancy?

Bryan Boon Early Golf in Auckland and Epsom

Ann Baxter Robert Rees Remembers

R. Graeme Gummer The Crossroads

Mavis Fenelon Memorials and Memories

CE Keith Fuller A road by any other name: the riddle of St Andrews Road

VOL 4, 2005

Jack Baker From the Pacific to the Tasman - The only coast to coast tramway in the world

Edna Griffith Horse-drawn buses

Muriel Williams The day of the go-slow strike

Jeanette Grant My tram trivia

Jack Baker Fond memories of the Regent, Epsom, in the 30s and 40s

Jeanette Grant Ruth Coyle of the Rutland Group

Joyce Roberts & The RSR railway in Kimberley Road

Jeanette Grant

Jeanette Grant Household medicine

Ella Greenwood Greenwoods Corner and the southern part of Epsom

Helen Laurenson The Crystal Palace, Mt Eden – ‘The Theatre Luxurious'

Bryan Boon Partying in the early 1930s

VOL 5, 2006

Mavis Fenelon Matareka

Jim Millar Janet and Greenwoods Corner

Gail Griffin The part that Eden and Epsom have played in my life

Jeanette Grant The library that never was

Muriel Williams Royal Oak School and the essay competition

Linda Cocks The origin of the St Andrews font

&Jeanette Grant

Harold Stone The buried guns of New Zealand

Jeanette Grant Cooking, from the range to the microwave

David Armishaw Auckland Teachers' College - reminiscences of the 1960s

Norma Bush Interview with Mr Stacey Cox

Helen Laurenson Hearts and soles

Jeanette Grant A victim of its own success

VOL 6, 2007

John Stacpoole Construction of Old Government House

Norma Bush The Stirling Garden Centre

Bryan Boon Places in Mt Eden registered with the Historic Places Trust

Graham Bush Piers Nicholson and the England Epsom

Jeanette Grant Eden Enterprises

Eric Laurenson Wheels over Kakariki

Valerie Sherwood How the fight for the Epsom Community House was won

Eric Laurenson Kerbstones

John Stacpoole Old social life, Old Government House

Basil Hutchinson Well-drilling in Epsom

Vol 7, 2008

Jack Baker Auckland^'s Everton

Bryan Boon Places in Epsom registered with the Historic Places Trust (Part II)

Ian Thwaites Ruth Mary Coyle

Helen Laurenson That takes the biscuit

Christine Black Epsom Girls^' Grammar School: 1917 – 2008

Jeanette Grant Decline and fall of the Eden-Roskill RSA

C. E. Keith Fuller The Quarrymen of Three Kings, Auckland

Hugh Laracy Dominion Day: was it ‘merely cosmetic'?

Valerie Sherwood Citizen and scientist: Algernon Withiel Thomas

VOL 8, 2009

Bryan Boone The Californian Bungalow

Joan Butler, Eric Laurenson Right to the Door

& Jeanette Grant

Norma Bush The Real Mackie

Graham Bush The Epsom Well

Graham Bush A Tribute to Professor David Cole

Jim Millar Wairoa and Epsom

Olive Clarke Teacher Training in the 1920S

Veronica Friedlander London to Auckland in 1955

C. E. Keith Fuller God Defend New Zealand

Jeanette Grant Eden Edifices

John Grant My Auckland in 1955

Basil Hutchinson Dr Torrance^'s Street

Eric Laurenson Preservation and Progress

Don McArthur Normal School changes during World War II

John Stacpoole Ian Beresford Madden

Ian Thwaites Hilda Wiseman, artist

VOL 9, 2010

Norma Bush Once a trammie always a trammie

Jeanette Grant The Epsom Community Centre Inc

Jack Baker The Epsom Bowling Club^'s early years

Margaret Barriball Charles and Ann Barriball and family

C. E. Keith Fuller Three Kings Grove

Olive Stubbs Classroom chronicles 1928-1963

Bob Kinnear Henry Woods of Mt Eden

Betty Barnes A local dairy

Jack Baker Dad's cars

Jeanette Grant Petrol rationing in New Zealand

Bryan Boon May to August 1945

Joan Butler Washday blues

Val Sherwood Welcomed by strangers: William Low

Christine Black My Epsom villa

Jeanette Grant Spending a penny

VOL 10, 2011

Jack Baker Eden Park's early years

Cynthia Landels My story, that of a bungalow

Valerie Sherwood Withiel Drive: Glimpses of the first 50 years

Jeanette Grant Thomas Aubrey Chappe Hall, 1873-1958

Josephine Power Josephine's phrases

Bryan Boon A gentleman's residence

Jeanette Grant Bert Bannister and the ‘Maori Motorbike^’

Christine Black Now you see it, now you don't!

Helen Laurenson Remember, remember the 5th of November

Roger Bartley My memories of the Sharpe Road area

Jock Carnachan Jottings: Shipherds Avenue history

C. E. Keith Fuller St Andrews Reserve

Jack Baker Three little streets

Eric Laurenson Hooves over Kakariki

VOL 11, 2012

Leslie Truscott My grandfather was the mayor (Recorded and transcribed by Norma Bush)

Muriel Williams Elizabeth (Bessie) Kendon (nee Blomfield)

Jeanette Grant Things we take for granted

Gwen Stone The Mt St John garage

Basil Hutchinson Meccano and Hornby Trains in Epsom

Valerie Sherwood Pawns of fortune: the Cleghorn family

Josephine Power Thomas Sheridan: prisoner of war

Jeanette & Reay Grant The 1984 Queen Street riot

Valerie Sherwood Jean Batten living in Epsom

Martin Thomas A critical review of the evidence in regard to ‘New

Zealand's First Stone House', 753 Mt Eden Rd

VOL 12, 2013

Paul Waite A heritage betrayed

Jeanette Grant Under threat

Valerie Sherwood A Christmas holiday in Central Otago

Christine Black First Mt Eden Collegiate School 1887-1892

Helen Laurenson Two for tea: the Mt Eden tea kiosk

Jeanette Grant Growing up with guns

Valerie Sherwood Alfred Domett

Helen Laurenson Early schools in Auckland

Jeanette Grant Time Out

Cynthia Landels A postscript to my story of a bungalow

VOL 13, 2014

Graham Bush Epsom Road Board members

Brian Davis J. P. Moulin and the Stonyhurst subdivision

Peter Friedlander Preserving Auckland's volcanic cone

Jeanette Grant Two Mt Eden reserves

Mavis Fenelon Epsom Memorial Arch—Anzac Service

Helen Laurenson The trouper and her trooper

Valerie Sherwood Amy Maria Hellaby

John Adrian Speer Writing off a regiment

Hugh Laracy Introducing Captain William Ross: an 'Epsom Salt'

Lisa Truttman A misleading date: Alfred Cucksey and his Mt Eden store

Helen & Eric Laurenson Mt Eden misinformation cast in bronze

Vol 14, 2015

John La Roche Mount Eden's water supply

Jack Baker My roaring forties

Helen Laurenson Two Epsom names on a Mount Eden honours board

Jeanette Grant Mount Eden School 1877

Graham Bush Burnnand's Band at the 'Epsom Trots'

Valerie Sherwood Dr Constance Helen Frost

Jeanette Grant The Udy family of Mount Eden

Geoff Fisher Memories growing up in Epsom and Newmarket

Cynthia Landels The changing face of St Andrews Road

Jeanette Grant War memorials in the Eden and Epsom areas

Vol 15, 2016

Brian Davis John Davis: builder, contractor, councillor

Jeanette Grant Auckland's first supermarket

Greg Smith A tribute to Mrs George

Helen Laurenson Super salesman Roy McCall

Elaine Bartley The Doctors Walton

John Richards A few memories of the past

Jeanette Grant MENPS memorial gates update

Anne Sanders The Manor Private Hospital

Helen Stowell Mount Eden Mayoress' Welfare Committee

Val Sherwood Nurse Effie Warbrick of Edenholme Hospital

Natalie Taplin Epsom reflections 1946-2014

Jennifer Wilkins The early history of Bramwell Place

V0L 16, 2017

Harold Stone Epsom memories [2002]

Graham Bush Tenth anniversary of The History of Epsom

Grant & O. Clarke Buying a house in wartime

Cynthia Landels Annie Mona Burgin, a vicar’s daughter

Jeanette Grant Quarries—now you see them, now you don’t

Val Sherwood The origins of the New Zealand Police

Mavis Fénelon The creation of our NZ heritage and our NZ identity

Val Sherwood Dr Robert Vaux Zinzan

Vol 17, 2018

Margaret Barriball An early 20th century immigrant to NZ

David Pittman Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Mount Eden Gaol

Dr Vincent Chan Whose house is it anyway?

Jeanette Grant The Maungawhau School Fair

Val Sherwood Thomas Bracken

Doris Layland Reminiscences of my early days

Jeanette Grant The Rev Dr Arthur Guyon Purchas

Colin Percy Memories of an old macrocarpa

Val Sherwood Flickers from the past: the story of Iohn Edward Batten, our ﬁrst ﬁlm star