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Napier and Hawke's Bay > Local History
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This book is a mosaic of anecdotes and personal accounts of country life, over a century, in an isolated and raw hill-country region, on the East Coast. With collaborative contributions by present and past residents of 23 Ballot blocks in the Clydebank Community. (From the introduction)
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No reply from publisher as at October 2008. On the third of Febraury 1931 at 10.47am., a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Hawke's Bay. In Hastings at least 93 people lost their lives, with hundreds more injured. In this book Michael Fowler details the destructive impact of the 1931 quake on the Hastings CBD and its subsequent recovery. The 25 city blocks of the CBD are catalogued with hundrreds of previously unpublished personal stories and photographs, which tell dramatic sotries of the destruction and heroism. Discover the horror of ... read more
Golden thread : the history of the Dannevirke Hunt (Handling fee and/or freight charges may apply)
Hilary Pedersen and Susan Berry
The Golden Thread is the history of the Dannevirke Hunt Inc. The Hunt celebrated their centennial in April of this year. It is a coffee table hard cover book containing over 400 photographs.
Napier's most famous Art Deco Hotel, once New Zealand's most premiere Rock Hotel, dubbed by many musicians as the 'best gig in the country'. While other venues were 'wine, women and songs', The Cabana was SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK 'N' ROLL!! New Zealand's own comparison to The Beatles famous home at the Cavern. This book also contains a CD of previously unpublished live recordings from the Cabana. There is also a hardback signed limited edition version available for $130 The venue has now reopened as the Cabana, meaning there will be ... read more
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Now very limited edition - Napier's most famous Art Deco Hotel, once New Zealand's most premiere Rock Hotel, dubbed by many musicians as the 'best gig in the country'. While other venues were 'wine, women and songs', The Cabana was SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK 'N' ROLL!! New Zealand's own comparison to The Beatles famous home at the Cavern. This book also contains a CD of previously unpublished live recordings from the Cabana.
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Record of J H Coleman's life from arrival in New Zealand in1859 until his death in 1928 aged 94; acquisition of pastoral land in Hawke's Bay; very early sittings of the Maori Land Court in Hawke's Bay; Royal Commission into land dealings, particularly concerning the Heretaunga block (James escaped); the making of his fortune; his commercial and philanthropic activities; the lives of his four privileged step-children; division of his wealth; the lives his own children and grandchildren.
Hawke's Bay Rugby Heritage. Volume 1 (1875-1945), paper back also available for $40
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Napier today is a tourist destination for New Zealanders and overseas visitors, a popular port of call for tourist ships. In 1931 the population of the town was just over 16,000, today the population is over 57,000. It is one of New Zealand's warmest regions on the Pacific Ocean coastline of the East Coast of the North Island. This wooden Victorian town was replaced after the 1931 earthquake and fire with the fashionable architecture vogue of the 1930s, the modern American style of the era which is known today as Art Deco. In Febru... read more
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DoP 2008, Hawke's Bay 215x185mm / 82pp Tells the poignant stories of the lives and deaths of those buried at the historic Napier Hill Cemetery. Tales from the Victorian era through to the 1931 earthquake are uncovered in this publication accompanying the exhibition jointly curated by Gail Pope, the archivist at the HBMAG, and well known filmmaker and writer Peter Wells. Somebody
Dop 2008, Napier 192pp softcover Catalogues the cinemas built in the Hastings and Napier central business districts during the period. This book also tells tje stories of 'show stoppers' - when disasters such as the 1931 Hawkes Bay Earthquake wrecked and closed every cinema in Hastings and Napier, and the triumphant rebuilding in magnificant Art Deco and Spanish Mission styles.
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