CTA’s event in this year’s Auckland Heritage Festival was a talk about city centre heritage pubs by our president, Allan Matson, in the Shakespeare Hotel on the afternoon of Saturday 26 September. Allan’s generously illustrated talk showed many of the hundreds of places where one could get a drink in...
Our winter lecture this year was held on the afternoon of 23 August at Kāhui St David’s, 70 Khyber Pass Road, Grafton, a Category A historic heritage place. About 60 people attended, enjoying the playing by Aleksy Kowalski of the 1905 Croft organ as they entered the Great Hall, then...
CTA’s AGM for 2025 was held on Sunday 16 November from 3pm in the Jubilee Building, Parnell, the former Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Main Building, now housing the Parnell Library and community facilities. This building dates from 1909 and was designed by Edward Bartley. In addition to...
The following is a shortened version of a media release (unpublished) sent to the NZ Herald on 1 October 2025. The Last Tour – St James Theatre Another 188 Aucklanders now know what it currently looks like behind the façade of the St James Theatre. Just days before...
Our annual general meeting was held on the afternoon of Saturday 23 November at John Kinder House. Our president, Allan Matson, presented his report of the Board’s activities for the year, and the report will be emailed to all on the CTA database. The Board of 2023 was re-elected with...
Our event in the Auckland Heritage Festival for 2024 was a repeat of the event we held in 2023, namely, several tours of the St James Theatre. There were 105 people on the waiting list from 2023, and so we expanded the number of tours to six, with around 30...
This lecture was to be a talk entitled Partington’s Mill in Early Modern Auckland, given by Christopher Paxton, who specialises in historical and social research. Unfortunately, Christopher was unable to be there on the day, and so the president and secretary of CTA jointly presented his notes, based on the...
A very enjoyable time was had by a small group of CTA members at the home of Martin Law, “Painter of Paradise,” in Mt Eden. Martin’s works have featured as an event in the Auckland Heritage Festival, and, on the afternoon of Saturday 15 June, he made us welcome to...
The Board decided to hold the 2023 AGM on 19 November at Ferndale House, a Category II historic place in Mt Albert. 18 people attended, and our guest speaker was Anna Radford, spokesperson for Honour the Maunga, who outlined the heritage of Mt Albert / Ōwairaka, particularly its trees, and...
On the afternoon of Saturday 4 March, about 30 Civic Trust Auckland members and other guests gathered at John Kinder House to launch CTA’s publication, “The Partingtons and their Mills.” (Details about the book can be found here.) This event was planned as a garden party but the garden featured...