parnellheritage

Find out about the rich history of Parnell’s orphan home.

Public libraries in Auckland had their humble beginnings in the Mechanics Institute only a year after the new settlement was established.

A glowing review of this gracious villa in York Street.

Uncover the origins of the Gardens.

In January 1963 a wrecker’s ball swinging from a crane demolished the building known as Paddy’s Puzzle.

Robert Tod, the fiery, argumentative Scottish merchant, met John Vesey Parnell at Beirut on the coast of Syria.

In 1878 William Swainson, a former Attorney General, sold five acres of land to a purchaser who first cloaked his identity

This is a story of the journey through time of a piece of wood which at some stage was transformed into a hitching-post.