Hidden Hamilton

She was working full time at the age of 11, travelled alone by ship from Genoa (Italy) to Sydney to marry a man she had not seen for five ye...

'All these shops, but nowhere to buy a nail!' This was my husband’s recurring lament, after we moved to live in Hamilton. We...

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

'I was so happy growing up there, and have tried to recall the events and experiences that made it so. I want others to be happy there, ...

'I could wrap you up in newspaper and there wouldn’t be a gap anywhere!' This somewhat startling skill comes from working in M...

'You can sit next to him. He’s one of those' . George Yanis was 8 years old, in 3 rd class at Tighes Hill Primary School. The bo...

'I rushed out the front door - everyone was coming out of their homes. I looked towards Beaumont Street from our elevated front driveway...

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...

It means 'a pile of rough stones'. One of Hamilton’s rare surviving late Victorian homes, Fettercairn is truly a survivor. Over the ...

The popularity of the television series of this name shows how keen many of us are discover the human dramas that might have played out in t...