
Prospect
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