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Local history of North Shore
A select, annotated bibliography.
Crammed full of useful facts and statistics.
Four volumes of interviews with longtime Birkenhead residents, and their memories of the development of the area.
These collected seven volumes of his 'enthusiastic' histories were originally published in the 1970s and early 1980s in the North Shore Times Advertiser. This has been indexed by Simon Lewis (1999).
Provides a good description of Birkenhead at the beginning of the twentieth century. Intended to promote residential settlement in the area.
(Note: not held at Auckland City Libraries)
A well written history, aimed at school level. It incorporates many themes and other materials from McClure's work.
A short publication, devoting one or two pages to each bay.
Written to assist with walking tours of the different bays, pointing out interesting historical features along the way.
A guide to history, services and businesses in Greenhithe.
Brief histories of Mariangi, Murrays and Campbells Bays.
Details of the economic development of the area.
A good bibliography of materials held at North Shore libraries.
Cover title: A history of Northcote.
Covers the twentieth century in the main, but gives a good flavour of local life in the area.
A good, solid, history of twentieth century Northcote.
The Glenfield Historical Society have combined photographs with profiles of some pioneering families to describe the move from countryside to suburbia.
A range of contributors describe the development of the Lucas Creek area, from early Pakeha settlement to the present rapidly urbanising suburb of Albany.
Celebrating the centenary of the Chelsea sugar works. The Sugar Company archives are at Birkenhead Public Library.
Published by the Takapuna Businessmen's Assn. Includes historical information and a map of 1958 Takapuna.
The North Shore Historical Society's official history of the Takapuna area, with well written themed chapters.
A useful compendium of facts and statistics, including the history of the Takapuna area in the nineteenth century.
A well researched guide to the development of rural Greenhithe.
Probably the best of the local histories of the Devonport area.
A good source of factual information on places and organisations in the area, compliments McClure.
The quintessential local history of the area.
A detailed history of the local area, incorporating the memories of long time residents.
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