History – Page 16 – Number 8 Network

When the cream was collected by boat

This photo was taken about 1908 and is said to have been at ‘Horsham Downs’.

Were they trying to escape a mad dog? Perhaps it was a primitive weather station. Or maybe they were scanning

In her history column in the Waikato Times, Lyn Williams takes a look at John Gordon, after whom Gordonton was named.

We can look back in photographs like this to a time when people lived in houses not a stone’s throw

We have no record of when this photo was taken. We can say with certainty it was after 1908 when

A full moon, and a pyromaniac’s lust for a cheap thrill, saw the old Sharp house in Gordonton reduced to