I see the Route 321 “Hospitals” bus getting along Gillies Avenue in Epsom. And I can’t help thinking it’s a pretender… it’s no match for the number of hospitals served by its predecessor, Route 18...
I recently visited the Epsom Community Centre in Gillies Avenue, and I found the place very different to recollections of my youth in the 1950s. Back then it was the Auckland City Council’s Epsom...
Volcanic action over much of the Auckland isthmus gave a legacy of numerous lava caves, and while they did not have the attraction of glow worms as at Waitomo, nor unusual fossils found in caves near...
Epsom’s Regent Theatre at 427 Manukau Road, near the Greenlane West intersection, opened in the mid-1920s and closed in the early 1960s only to reopen as the upmarket Lido Continental Cinema. It...
We were definitely “St John kids”: father’s ambulance work as a volunteer had a profound effect on our family’s life for all those years we lived at home. St John was inextricably woven into all our...
Epsom Hotel, Potter’s Paddock, Alexandra Park and the Showgrounds The old Epsom Hotel was central to the earliest development of the district, including Potter’s Paddock which became Alexandra Park...