Documentary Filmmaker. Archive Producer. History Geek. Collector of ephemera, photographs, postcards, and other windows into the past. May contain vintage stuff. Kiwi living in Cornwall, UK.
TV/Film, MilHist, Sharks, Shipwrecks, Dance Cards, Dinos, Aviation, Birds, GLAM, Archives, Museums.
Well that was a bucket list experience! I’ve seen the northern lights! Stunning aurora display tonight at Tintagel, Cornwall, UK.
Unedited photos taken from my phone.
Check out those hats! Amateur photograph taken below Rocks Road, Nelson, New Zealand. Circa late 1910s - 1920s.
"Stewart Island trip". Guessing this was taken while crossing Foveaux Strait, New Zealand. A trip I've made many times. It can be treacherous, but it looks like they picked a good day for it.
Found photo. Likely late 1930s. My collection. #Rakiura #Aotearoa #history
'Blitzkreig Bar', a photo booth in New York City, popular during the Second World War. Possibly in Times Square, or Coney Island.
I can't make out the name of the ship on the tallies, but the shoulder badges indicate that the three men are New Zealanders.
Kiwis on the march. Another photo from the same collection, no note on the back of this one but suspect it was also taken at Featherston Military Camp, New Zealand, likely 1917 or 1918.
Found photo. My collection. #FWW #History #NewZealand
"The last morning in Featherston"
Presumably later in the day, these Kiwi servicemen started their long journey to the other side of the world. Final destination.. the Western Front.
Found photo. Featherston Military Camp. Likely 1917 or 1918. My collection. #FWW #History
Another view, the lifeboat now clear of Makura. Three years after these photos were taken lifeboats were launched from a similar vessel, the RMS Tahiti approx. 550 miles SW of Rarotonga.
Only that occasion wasn't a drill. The Tahiti sank, with no loss of life
📷 My collection. #FoundPhoto
Lifeboat drill on RMS Makura, en route to Papeete, Tahiti, in 1927. For nearly three decades she connected Aus/NZ to North America via the islands. Built 1908, scrapped in 1937.
One of her most famous passengers was Zane Grey, who traveled on Makura in 1926.
"The Royal Mail ship Makura was no leviathan, but she certainly was a greyhound of the sea. In less than an hour I saw the mountains fade into the fog. That last glimpse of California had to suffice me for a long time."
📷 My collection