Thinking about summer!
Some things never change, including the desire of men to dress as girls, funny that! Here’s Russell Collins and Bob Hall playing ladies in their best Hawaiian florals at the [ Read More ]
In days gone by…..
The first Piha dance in the Piha Hall was in July 1936, organised by Ivy Phillipson, Mrs Neville Ussher, and Mrs Watt. Guests included the Brownes from Karekare, Yearburys, Hallidays [ Read More ]
How the phone got to Piha
In 1928 a determined Horace Mobbs and his two sons, Fred and Alan, pulled a lone telephone wire through the bush from Anawhata to the Karekare exchange. Piha and Anawhata [ Read More ]
All about Stores at Piha
The first store at Piha was at the Piha Mill, run by Jack Ingram, brother of the first Mill manager, Chris Ingram. Jack was married to Mary Bethell, daughter of [ Read More ]
Dick Kibblewhite
Richard (Dick) Kibblewhite was an Auckland architect who tried to subdivide Piha in the 1920s, starting as early as 1923. Advertising in his Auckland CBD office street frontage was his [ Read More ]
Wilf and Ella Hilford, lovers of Piha’s pohutukawa
Wilf and Ella Hilford were two of the original community that settled at the end of North Piha Beach, Ella, or Marcella Wardrop Luke Hilford, having purchased Lots 46 and [ Read More ]
Cairn at Te Waha marks gifts of land
It may have been 50 years late, but on Friday 4 November, a small group of Auckland Council regional park rangers and descendants of the Rose family, gathered at Te [ Read More ]
The Church of the Sacred Heart, Garden Road
The Church of the Sacred Heart, nestled among huge pohutukawas in Garden Road, was given by Trixie Wales in memory of her husband Stan. He was an Auckland importer and [ Read More ]
Bach settlement
After the closure of the Mill in 1921, Piha went through a period of quiet. But in 1926, Richard Kibblewhite, an Auckland architect, attempted to subdivide Piha. Plans were [ Read More ]