By Roselyn Fauth
Blogs by WuHoo Timaru
- Meet James Craigie: The man, the wife, and the children behind the name
- At the Boundary: Looking Closely at the Aigantighe Gates
- What About the West? A park, two entrances, and a civic ambition
- Ashbury Park Gates erected by the North End Ratepayers and Improvements Association in 1926
- Gloucester Gates, Timaru Botanic Gardens
- Parks, Gates, and the Making of a Town
- Hands up if this playground gear looks familiar? When a Faulkners Playground Booklet Looks Like Your Childhood
- 100 North Street: McCahons Drumrankin and the Burns Croomlea
- A Gate on Wai-iti Rd and a Oldsmobile
- Strictly Cash: What One Small Advertisement Reveals About a Changing Timaru
- The First Car on the Motor Horizon in Timaru was the 5-H.P Single Cylinder Oldsmobile
- Who is Joan Evans (nee Hanan) and why is she holding this photo album?
- When dental care came to school: how a world first reached Timaru
- What I learned about the National Council of Women, South Canterbury Branch
- We went to Ashburton last night… and I came home even more grateful for heritage
- The Grain Giants: Atlas on on Turnbull Street
- The Grain Giants: Bruce's brick mill that changed Timaru
- The Grain Giants: Belford Flour Mills and Timaru’s Oldest Surviving Mill
- The Women of WuHoo - My Year of Hunting for Women's Stories
- The Woman Beside the Newspaper: Searching for Elizabeth Goldthorpe Kerr
- Curating Timaru’s Stories: The Kerr Family, the Timaru Herald, and a Kitchen at the Foot of George Street
- Betty Curnow: Her Connection to Henry Le Cren
- Rosemary Campbell, Timaru Girls’ High, and Coming Full Circle
- Craighead’s First Diocesan Principal: The Life and Loss of Violet Salmond
- The Night I Realised the Side Quest Was the Point
- Did You Know A Local Waimate Lad Gifted This 53-Room Mansion to Women in Need
- Looking Closer at a Palliser Block on Beverly Road
- Almost 100 Years at the TGHS Hawkesbury 'Gate of Learning'
- Fifty Years in Print: What the 1930 Jubilee Article Records about Timaru High School and TGHS
- Beatrice Rae Wilson: A life of learning, leadership and service - TGHS
- The House on the Highway Bend - Orari Estate homestead
- I wasn’t looking for a house... Orari Gorge Station
- A picnic on the grounds of St Thomas’s Anglican Church in Woodbury
- Enquire Within: What an old book taught me about women’s lives, rights, and learning the rules
- Ellen Shephard Tripp, Eleanor Tripp, and the Library Written Before It Was Built
- Who Was Eleanor Tripp?
- A Trip to the Eleanor Tripp Woodbury Library
- William Williams, Kumara, and a Rock from the Roadside
- Coal, the Coast, and the Cost We Forgot
- At the Grave: Lavinia Morrison and the Life That Did Not Make the Headlines
- Remembering Margaret Sinclair - Mrs Mills the harbourmasters wife of LeCren’s Terrace
- Same but Different: What a Trip to Dunedin Taught Me About Timaru, Girls’ Education, and Why Public Schools Matter
- Same but Different: A Lawson Detour, a Side Quest, and the Making of Otago
- The Ladies of Larnach Castle
- Following the law: A history hunt into marriage, power, and women’s lives
- Part Two: A Side Quest in Stone, Brick and Grain Helps me Better Understand Timaru
- Grain Giants. Part One: Borrowed Momentum at Oamaru
- Two Shepherds, One Corner: A Timaru side quest through law, loss, fire, and a familiar name and the "levanting Timaru storekeeper"
- The Carvers and the Scratchers of Oamaru Victorian Precinct
- When a life was not your own
- Following the Breadcrumbs: Jane Runciman and a Timaru Chapter of Women’s Ambition
- Larnach Castle, the Tomb, and the People Who Shaped Them
- Reading Timaru through the work of architect R. A. Lawson and our past post office
- A trip to Seacliff and its local links of mental health
- Remembering War: Why We Have War Memorials in New Zealand
- When the War Almost Reached Our Shore
- Where Time Met the Sea: The Sundial on the Caroline Bay Memorial Wall
- Keeping Time in Timaru with our Council Town Clock
- The Timaru Sundial Trail
- The Stereo in the Attic And Our Radio Past
- Did you know Timaru once threw champagne parties for frozen meat?
- The Grain That Built a Region
- Among Fossils and Headstones: A Story of Sweat Bees
- Who remembers the Sullivan & Spillane store on Stafford Street?
- Same but different - rail at Caroline Bay
- Walk This Way: Be a Tourist in Your Own Backyard
- Meet the Halls: A reputation to earn a street name and then to loose it
- Take a trip to Rosewill - More than a hall - a link to the pupils and school of the past
- A Sunday Drive to a Native Nook on Bassett Rd, off Rosewill Valley Rd
- Janet Street and her Hawthorn Tree
- Sister M. A. Hall: A life in maternity care and leadership
- Two Healers Side by Side: Why Timaru’s Hospital and Botanic Gardens Belong Together
- The Baronet Who Preferred Not to Be Called “Sir” Basil Arthur
- A gloomy day rātā hunt
- Christmas carols at St Mary's Timaru
- Timaru Christmas Lights and lighting from necessity to celebration
- Castle Claremont: from lava to legacy
- Where Are the ten Who Died: Remembering the Men Lost in the Benvenue Disaster
- Heroes on the Shore
- Heroines Who Asked, Gave, and Had to Face the Sea
- Queen Alexandra, the Lifeboat, and a Civic Square: Tracing Timaru’s Royal Connections
- Join us for the unveiling of a Memorial for Those Who Rest in Free Ground and Unmarked Graves
- When Women Put Their Hands In, Aoraki Moves Forward
- Timaru’s Roses: The Gardens the World Comes to See
- Hope Cottage – A Bricklayer’s Pride in Temuka
- Meet the Bowkers
- Inspired by a information sign... The Rise and Fall Peeress Town...
- What Happened to the The AMP Society Office of Stafford Street?
- A History Hunt: Discovering Timaru’s Coat of Arms
- If These Walls Could Talk: The Story of Timaru’s Trades Hall Societies Clyde Carr Memorial Hall
- How Timaru’s Buildings Remember Government Life
- The Life of Dr George E. Gabites, Timaru’s Hospital Superintendent
- The Architects of the Oxford's Sunshine Parapets and Union Jacks: James Turnbull and Percy Rule
- Unearthing Percy Watts Rule: A Story from the Aoraki Heritage Archive
- SHOW US YOUR TURNBULL & RULE: Part One. Kelly and Forrest’s Early 1919 Arts & Crafts Home
- Timaru’s Early Port: A History Hunt on the Open Beach and Early Rhodestead
- A For Sale Sign, a Coronation, and a Century of Shopping: Thomson’s Coronation Buildings (Farmers)
- Hazelburn School: A Sign by the Roadside
- Hunt for History: Why Is It Called the Empire Hotel Addition?
- Remembering Betty Curnow: A Timaru Connection to Modern New Zealand Art