All Blacks Player – George Maber

To mark the occasion of :- Bledisloe Cup 2015: Australia v New Zealand, ANZ Stadium in Sydney Aug 8th Last year, 2014, marks the 120th anniversary of the death of George Maber, one of the very first All Black Rugby players . He was to play his first All Blacks game at Christchurch in 1894. […]

Isaac Goss – A Christian Man in Every Sense – Grave tales

Issac William Goss Undertaker This is one of my favourite photographs. It is of the Goss family taken at their home in Piesse Street, Boulder in 1910.  The family was well known for their Undertakers business in Piesse Street, Boulder. Many of the headstones in our local cemeteries have their maker’s name on them.  This […]

The Bardoc Murder:

The grave of the victim of the unsolved Bardoc murder is on the bank of the creek leading down from Lindsay’s Soak which is crossed by the road from the Dark Horse (mine) to the Bellvue (mine) about three miles east of Grants Patch. The fenced grave is on the North bank of the creek […]