Local History of the North Shore (Te Raki Pae Whenua)

The New Zealand Collection housed at Takapuna Library provides in-depth coverage of the history of the North Shore. All the libraries hold material documenting the history of their own suburb. These local history collections include books, newspaper clippings files and photographs. They may also include audiovisual material, collections of family and community organisation records, old newspapers, newsletters and other ephemera. You do not need to be a member of North Shore Libraries to view any of these collections.
 

The New Zealand Collection also has microfilm copies of the North Shore Times Advertiser back to the 1960s and some archive copies of other old North Shore newspapers. These are available for viewing in the New Zealand Collection, upstairs at Takapuna Library.

Local History Online

In 2006, North Shore Libraries, Waitakere  Libraries and Rodney Libraries joined together to make their local history photographs and their newspaper, oral history and community archive indexes available to the public on Local History Online. From this website you can look at and request copies of North Shore heritage photographs, search the online index to the North Shore Times, Aucklander and Devonport Flagstaff newspapers published since 1992, and find out about the oral history and community archive collections.
 

Residents have been helping us record the history of the North Shore for a number of years. Their stories are held in the North Shore Oral History Archive at the Takapuna Library – access is by appointment Monday to Friday during library opening hours. Phone 486 8460 and ask for Jacquie Morris or Colleen Christie.

 

This database has been prepared by local historian David Verran, and is an alphabetical listing of people buried in the Mount Victoria cemetery in Devonport.

This Auckland City Libraries database is a guide to the history of North Shore street names.
 

Auckland Museum’s index to street names in the wider Auckland region.
 

A window into the online pictorial collections of a number of library, museum and gallery collections around New Zealand, including the Alexander Turnbull Library, Auckland City Libraries and Auckland Museum, all of which have North Shore images in their collections.