Horology
The Richardson Long-Case Clock (1917)
A TREASURE REDISCOVERED This very important hand-made clock case came into my possession in 2019. It is made competently of English Oak, with several iconic…
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Pharmacy
Kai Hanga Rongoa – The Medicine Maker, Whanganui
Recently I was given 3 very important and rare chemist bottle labels that are written in Te Reo Maori. These are unused on a sheet…
Photographs
Postcards of Remuera
The heyday of the pictorial postcard was the early 20th century, with postage being one penny, until December 1907, then this was reduced to halfpenny.…
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Horology
“My Watch” by Mark Twain
“My Watch” by Mark Twain. A humorous examination of having a pocket watch repaired. This small booklet, published by the American Waltham Watch Company just…
Photographs
Picture Information – Gallery
Terry owned a cottage at Leigh in the mid-1980s, and much of his time at his weekend stays was spent researching and photographing the history…
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Pharmacy
Pharmacy Labels used on bottles and containers
When a pharmacist packaged up a dispensed item, there was a legal requirement to label the item’s container with specific instructions for use, as…
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Horology
New Zealand Pocket Watches – Gallery
Here is a sample of a broad range of pocket watches with a New Zealand inscription on the enamelled dial or back plate of the…
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Remuera
Peter Horne / Don Hawke
To round out the chemists in the Remuera shops, Peter Horne opened up business in Hutchinsons Arcade in 1960. There were a few premises relocations,…
Remuera
Great South Road Chemists
Only segregated 50 years ago by the incision of the Southern Motorway, this area was traditionally and integrally a part of Remuera. These shops display…
Remuera
Wylie’s Pharmacy
The founder of Wylie’s Pharmacy, Roland Wylie became a chemist because he liked the smell of a chemist’s shop. Roland was the only son of…
Remuera
Upland Road Pharmacies
William Gabrial Gray The 2nd longest serving pharmacy business in the Remuera area was that opened in 1923 by William Gabrial Gray at the Upland…
Remuera
Remuera Pharmacy
FRED BLOTT The business trading as F.G.Blott Chemist opened in 1909. It was in a two storied building at, what was then numbered as 117…