| | Title | Albany heritage trail. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 02 October 1998; p. 6 | | Description | Members of the Albany Mainstreet group seen at the site of the township's historic Lucas Creek landing. The landing is one of several newly marked sites on a heritage trail through the area. Remnants of a wharf can be seen from the trail. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Albany reserve still a hidden treasure. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 06 July 2001; p. 7 | | Description | Silverdale resident Dawn Evans says there is a spot in Albany just as beautiful as it was in the 1940's that hardley anyone knows about and is vastly underused; the only access to it is via stepping stones across Lucas Creek which are covered in slime. Some of the features of Gills Reserve include a waterfall and water hole, scenic lookouts, walking tracks and a picnic area. The council has prepared a management plan and welcomes any suggestions from the public on the reserve. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Albany's first teacher among photographs. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 08 June 1999; p. 15 | | Description | Appeals for historical information relating to Albany have turned up rare photographs of the township's first schoolmaster, George Henry Morton and his wife Elizabeth. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Albany's past retold. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 08 March 2002; p. 3 | | Description | A history of Albany has been compiled by resident Robert Stevenson and ex-Albany resident Alison Harris. The book is called "Once there were green fields : the story of Albany, New Zealand". | | View full record |
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| | Title | All in the family. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 05 May 1994; p. 15 | | Description | Four generations of the Gill family were part of a large group who took part in the inaugural walk of the new Gills Reserve walkway in Albany recently. Mayor Paul Titchener and his wife Prue led the walk. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Basin history study. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 19 March 1999; p. 2 | | Description | A team of researchers are seeking information on the social history of the Albany basin. A book is planned. Contact: Robert Stevenson, P.O. Box 300016 Albany 1331. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Big changes in store for thriving Albany. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times, 19 January 2006; p. 8-9 | | Description | Westfield New Zealand has begun earthworks in preparation for the building of what will be one of the country's biggest shopping malls. Malcolm Black talks about other planned developments in the Albany Centre. Includes an aerial photograph of Albany Village in February 1950. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Book captures Albany's past. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 08 March 2002; p. 5 | | Description | A history of Albany has been compiled by resident Robert Stevenson and ex-Albany resident Alison Harris. The book is called "Once there were green fields : the story of Albany, New Zealand". | | View full record |
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| | Title | Change domain name - residents. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 26 June 1997; p. 10 | | Description | Council has named a reserve to the north of Oteha Valley Road in Albany, Hooton Park, after the Hooton family of early Albany. The Hooton family owned a dairy farm in the early 1900's, on the site where the stadium now stands. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Descendants delve in past. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 29 September 1998; p. 26 | | Description | Researchers Robert Stevenson, Catherine Gudgeon and Alison Harris are keen to write a history of the Albany basin. All are descendants of early European pioneer, William Stevenson. Book should be finished mid 2000. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Early Albany on show at picnic | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 16 February 1995; p.7 | | Description | A collection of historic paintings and photographs featuring early Albany will be shown at the Mainstreet Picnic in the Park being held at Kells Park on Saturday | | View full record |
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| | Title | Farewell to fruitful Albany. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 29 August 1996; p. 20 | | Description | Mr Leo Floyd's orchard on Bush Road is the second to last of the old orchards to go in the urban development of Albany; he remembers the days when up to 100 orchardists made Albany their base. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Hall of fame member has Albany link. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 27 July 2000; p. 26 | | Description | A prominent businessman, Sir William Alfred Stevenson, whose early life was spent at Albany, is among commercial leaders inducted in a newly established business hall of fame at Manukau City. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Hard slog. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 04 December 1998; p. 19 | | Description | Photograph of fruit growers using a hand-made wheelbarrow at an Albany orchard, early this century. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Heritage ramble through village. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times, 15 July 2004; p. 26 | | Description | Brief article promoting the Heritage walk around Albany, as part of the "Shore History Fest", which celebrates North Shore's heritage. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Historian's notes go to university. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 22 August 1997; p. 6 | | Description | Notes and records of late historian Jack Welsford have been passed to the Massey University Albany Campus library. His book "The Station" was based around his collection of lands and deeds records, committee minutes, newspaper articles and anecdotal jottings. | | View full record |
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| | Title | How did Albany get its name? | | Source of Article | Albany & East Coast Bays News, 20 February 2010; p.8 | | Description | Until 1890 the Albany area was known as Lucas Creek. The name came from a local flax miller known as Daniel Lucas or Clucas. It is said that the name change to Albany was suggested by local transport operator Alex or Captain McArthur, who ran the cutter 'Spray' and later the steamer 'Gleaner' in the 1880s and 1890s. The name came from the youngest son of Queen Victoria, the reigning monarch, who was Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. Photographs are of Lucas Creek and the Albany Hotel in the 1920s. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Inn will celebrate 130 years. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 26 November 1992; pp. 24-25 | | Description | The Albany Inn will celebrate 130 years of service to the community, over three days starting tommorow, Friday November 27. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Looking for Goldie's land. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 26 June 1997; p. 5 | | Description | The late Jack Welsford, who wrote the unpublished historical book about Albany "The Station", believed that the artist Charles Goldie owned land at Albany. An early list of landowners in his book, attributed to early land deeds, includes the name Goldie, and the occupation "portrait painter" next to the name. Auckland City Gallery staff cannot confirm this. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Memories served up on a tray. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 03 November 1998; p. 12 | | Description | A large silver tray which was presented to postman Tom Horton by residents of Albany township in 1904, is being returned to the people of Albany. It is now with Albany's Mainstreet heritage committee. Tom Horton carried the mail from Birkenhead, through Albany to Silverdale. He died in 1930. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Memory lane in Albany | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 26 October 1995; p.7 | | Description | Today's busy and some say dangerous Albany Hill is a far cry from the country road that wound up to the Albany Hotel in 1947 | | View full record |
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| | Title | Name game behind Schnapper Rock Rd. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times, 12 October 2006; p. 12 | | Description | Article gives the origin of the name of Schnapper Rock Road, taken from the book, "Street names of Auckland - their story", by John Davenport. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Pioneer's paintings sought. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 18 September 1998; p. 7 | | Description | Researchers for a book on Albany's history are keen to trace two water-colour paintings by early Albany resident Alice McArthur, which are thought to have hung at Long Bay's Vaughan Homestead once. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Power goes underground. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 31 October 1997; p. 8 | | Description | Underground conversion of Albany's power supply; Power New Zealand removed 33,000 volt power lines from above the old Albany Highway. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Pretty cottage on the move. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 10 March 1998; p. 33 | | Description | One of Albany's oldest homesteads is about to make way for a huge development in the area. The 1890's cottage is to be removed from the Bush Road site to make way for a condominium-style residential complex (The Grange). Some historical details about the cottage and its ownership. | | View full record |
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| | Title | The last of the great North Shore landbanks. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times, 17 March 2006; p. 8 (supp.) | | Description | Article in the Real Estate guide about the impending sale of the 125-acre farmland on Albany Hill that has been privately owned by the Hosking family since 1958. Also mentions the hill's previous working history. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Thirty-ish now. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 16 December 1997; p. 45 | | Description | Photo of Albany Primary School standard four pupils of 24 years ago (1973). Back then Albany was a quiet rural township with a small post office, a garage or two, a tearooms, a pub and a few shops. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Tickets please. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 25 September 1998; p. 23 | | Description | Photo showing one of Les Foley's buses resting at the top of the Albany Hill. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Trio to make history. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 11 September 1998; p. 1 | | Description | Researchers Robert Stevenson, Catherine Gudgeon and Alison Harris are keen to write a history of the Albany basin. All are descendants of early European pioneer, William Stevenson. Book should be finished mid 2000. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Unsolved mystery. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 16 October 1998; p. 6 | | Description | Electra Phillips buried parts of an expensive chandelier on her Albany farm following a family dispute. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Walking trails point to Albany's history. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 03 May 1994; p.2 | | Description | Groups staying at the Albany Outdoor Education Centre now have access to a detailed map and booklet giving background to a recently established heritage trail in the area. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Yesteryears. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 12 January 1996; pp.40-41 | | Description | Photos reproduced from Auckland Public Library's collection (ferries at Northcote Wharf) and North Shore City Council Archives, ECB Coll. (One of Mairangi Bay, one of Murrays Bay, one of Roy Stevenson at the reins of a horse-drawn vehicle, with May and John Gardner, John Ross, Janet Ross, Mrs Wrigley (visitor), Elsie (?), Mr Morris. | | View full record |
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