Rest In Peace, Craig. #CavvyBoy www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...
In Dunedin today a talented school mate from Caversham was farewelled. How talented? On his coffin was an Emmy Award and on the day of his death he was nominated for another. RIP, Craig. #CavvyBoy #FuckCancer
See, I'm not alone in my disappointment at the admission of my South Dunedin bros! #CavvyBoy #ockhams #books
Main South Road taken near Catherine Street, Caversham, c. 1975. DCC Archives, Planning Series, Green Negative Folder 'St Clair' 034
My child hood. #CavvyBoy
Aerial view of Dunedin NZ. Carisbrook & Hillside Workshops in foreground. Hocken Digital Collections https://hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/8846
My Precious.
Caversham ca. 1926/27 (new Caversham School is visible and opened 26 March 1927). My old fmr State House home at 40 Ryehill St on Calton Hill is certainly still to be built. Aotearoa Series produced by Hugh & G K Neill www.postcard.org.nz/hugh-g-k-nei... #CavvyBoy #Caversham
Part 1 of a 2-part panorama of the Hillside Railway Workshops, Dunedin. Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives. Ref: APG-1053-1/2-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
Part 2 of a 2-part panorama of the Hillside Railway Workshops, Dunedin. Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives. Ref: APG-1052-1/2-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
A panorama of the old hood of South Dunedin 'The Flat' 100 years ago with Hillside Railway Workshops in the foreground taken in October 1925 by railway employee and amateur photographer Albert Percy Godber who lived in shot at 9 Baker Street, Caversham. #CavvyBoy #Caversham #SouthDunedin #Dunedin
South Road, Caversham c 1977 DCC Archives, City Planning Series, Negative sheet 9/21
South Road, 1976 Photographer Claire Rutherford Box-221-024-001, Hovken Collections
Dance to thy daddy, to thy mammy sing;
Thou shalt have a fishy on a little dishy,
Thou shalt have a fishy when the boat comes in.
When we came home to Caversham in 1977 we were well supplied — Caversham Fish Supply 300 South Road and our go to Fairway Takeaways at 304. #CavvyBoy
In 1927 politician Thomas Kay Sidey secured the enactment of the Summer Time Act, a daylight saving measure that he and his Caversham and later Dunedin South constituents had long supported. New Zealand Free Lance Collection (PAColl-0785). Reference: PAColl-7171-04. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
We are now on Sidey Time. #DaylightSavings #CavvyBoy
Caversham Shops, South Road at intersection with Playfair Street, c. 1977 DCC Archives, Photo Box B/25
This is the Caversham I remember when the family returned to Dunedin after a six year Odyssey in North Island. #CavvyBoy
Fill the Swamp! Back to the Future for South Dunedin.
The Chinese market gardener is standing on the site before it became King's High School in 1936. Fond memories at King's (not the 1930s!) of Saturday nights at the Forbury races. #WagingOnWetlands #CavvyBoy #Dunedin
Cracked chimney stack forces closure of Gasworks Museum in Sth Dunedin www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...
Growing up in Caversham the trinity of Carisbrook, Hillside Railway Workshops and the Gasworks (all seen here) dominated our view and sense of identity as a working-class suburb. #CavvyBoy #Dunedin
Part two of a three part panorama of Dunedin. Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives. Ref: APG-1887-1/2-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
So I used to walk across Tonga Park (former Chinese market gardens seen at exteme left and formed as a park and named in 1933), then along Surrey Street to Hillside Road (then Cargill Road, where shops facing camera). In the foreground the Benevolent Institute and behind it Carlton Hotel. #CavvyBoy
Almost 100 years after my former Caversham School war memorial gates were opened in 1927 they have been refurbished www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin... #CavvyBoy