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Microwaves & Memories: Recipes from the 1980s
Tuesday 4 March
Long before air fryers and meal kits, kiwi home cooks relied on recipes like these, quick, clever, and designed for the microwave.
Beryl Fletcher
Monday 20 January | Resources,
Hamilton City Libraries has launched a new archive collection of literary papers from acclaimed feminist author Beryl Fletcher, who was based in Kirikiriroa Hamilton from the 1970s until her passing…
Whakapapa Research
Wednesday 20 November
Researching your whakapapa - Showcases how you can use our resources to research your own whakapapa.
First New Zealand Company Ships to Arrive in New Zealand
Wednesday 20 November | Resources,
The New Zealand Company was an organisation founded in early 19th-century England that arranged for the hire of various ships to carry British migrants from England to New Zealand, lured…
Looking back at libraries in Kirikiriroa/Hamilton - Part 5
Wednesday 31 July | Library History,
Hamilton's Carnegie Library c. 1925 2023 marked the 30th year that the Central Library has been operating from our current location in Garden Place.
Summer Art School 1978
Monday 25 March
This summery image is the cover of the programme for the January 1978 Summer Art School, administered by the Waikato Society of Arts.
Hamilton West Town Belt
Friday 1 March | Camera Obscura,
Hamilton West town belt 1912 HCL_07049 This elevated view—once only possible from the top of the Frankton water tower - shows a developing Hamilton in the early 20th century.
Loading "Rawhiti" at Hamilton
Friday 1 March | Camera Obscura,
This is Roose Wharf in Hamilton, pictured in an era with very little mechanisation in shipping.
No. 2 Dam
Friday 1 March | Camera Obscura,
Do you know this spot? 1978. 01. 454 This week’s idyllic lake scene comes from the Pick Collection, a collection of personal papers and images from Mr R. D.
Masonic Lodge
Friday 1 March | Camera Obscura,
This modest yet historically significant building still stands on Grey Street, opposite Steele Park, as it has since 1877 - one hundred and forty-six years after its foundation stone was…
Burley's Drapery Store
Wednesday 28 February | Camera Obscura,
Flier for Burley's Drapery Store advertising clothing, manchester, fabric and other items by mail order HCLE_00059 This flier promotes goods available at Burley’s Drapery Store in 1929, shortly before the retirement…
Hamilton Harmonic Society
Wednesday 28 February | Camera Obscura,
HCL_00267 In July 1963, the Hamilton Harmonic Society celebrated its tenth anniversary with a concert at the Methodist Centre.