Piringatahi - Heritage Collections Up Close

Name: Piringatahi - Heritage Collections Up Close
Start: 2025-09-20T02:00:00+12:00
End: 2025-09-20T03:00:00+12:00
Location: Heritage Collections Reading Room, Level 2, Central City Library, 44-46 Lorne Street, Auckland, New Zealand 1010

Schedule

Sat Sep 20 2025 at 02:00 am to 03:00 am

UTC+12:00

Location

Heritage Collections Reading Room, Level 2, Central City Library, 44-46 Lorne Street, Auckland, New Zealand 1010 | Auckland, AU

Join us for an up-close look at items from our sports-related heritage collections. These include lantern slides from some of the earliest Auckland Tramping Club outings, invitations from the organising committee of the Empire Games and photos of the athletes' village at Ardmore Teachers College.
Look through Dave Cameron's boxing and wrestling archive of scrapbooks, photographs and magazines; the Empire Games organizing committee archive and photo albums; and the Auckland Tramping Club archive. Hear stories from historic local sports books and magazines including the first New Zealand footballer to be signed for an English professional club; the origins of the Halberg Awards & early accounts of the Auckland cricket team's tours of the country.
Free, bookings essential. Spaces are limited to 20 per session
Bookings through this email:
[email protected]