Hidden Hamilton

At the northern end of Hudson Street, Hamilton, amid residential houses, was a veritable hive of industry. But it was more than that – it wa...

It had begun in the kitchen and lounge room of Eric Blatchford’s parents’ home. Eric was just 20, and unable to afford his own place, had br...

The towering silos of the Hamilton Flour Mill had stood as Hamilton’s most prominent landmark for over 90 years in Hudson Street, Hamilton. ...

'Timber is the thing,'  Frank Standen told his daughter Jan. ' It’s all in the taste.' Years later, her father long gon...

It was his private retreat, even though the sound of hammer against anvil blasted my five year old eardrums. I loved crouching against the s...

Webster Street yielded up one of its secrets to me after I stumbled across some photographs of Pearce’s Bakery on the Facebook site Lost Ne...