Local History Stories
Keep up to date with our local history stories.
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Pat Lawlor and the works of 'Mr Wellington'
With the kind permission of his extended family, the most significant published works of Pat Lawlor have been digitised for the first time on Wellington City Recollect. -
Wellington’s Café Culture: the Visual Guide
“Coffee’s done more for cities in the past 25 years than architecture’s done in the past 150.” (Sir Ian Athfield, 1940 – 2015) -
New Zealand Railways and the Remutaka Deviation
Photographs from the New Zealand Railways Department capture the modernisation of train routes in the Wellington region, with a focus on the Upper Hutt to Wairarapa connection.
Recent stories
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- Past author event: Watch Fact and Fiction, Writing History
- One Hundred Years of Local Theatre
- Video Interview with Daniel Beban: parts one and two
- Author Interview: Daniel Beban
- RAD: Radio Active Digest now on Wellington City Recollect
- Te Tiriti: Te Whanganui-a-Tara, 29 April 1840