Old Invercargill

It’s been a year or three but Friday Flashback is back and presented by Old Invercargill. To kick things off we have this vintage brochure from THC Resort Hotels really captures the spirit of adventure and the lush beauty of New Zealand’s Fiordland. Flipping through its pages is like stepping into a

Former pupils of Rosedale Intermediate School from its first intake of students in 1963 have met up in the south for a reunion. The reunion is for first day pupils of class IH and 2H who had Mr Hillstead as their teacher. Organised by Alison Beaumont, who now lives in Arrowtown, the original 60-year

Councils around the country were once responsible for traffic enforcement, and Invercargill’s Glenn Cockroft has a museum filled with much of the old memorabilia. (Watch the full video of Mike & About tour of this incredible place). Traffic patrol cars, the first fitted telephones, uniforms, badges,

Post Office is the heart of Invercargill. Up until Post Office was built the square outside the old building was where everybody met everybody in Invercargill. It was the centre of activity in the city and the place where people congregated and discussed the affairs of state and country. The old Pos

It was 36 years on 27-31st January 1984 it rained solidly for days around Invercargill and Southland suffered severe flooding. Friday 27th January 1984 was named Southland’s Black Friday, take a look back at how town looked, some amazing images. Below we have listed all the Flood chapters. The Video

Known as Lennel, in reference to the ancient name of Coldstream on the Scottish border, this large Victorian home was built by John Turnbull Thomson between 1880-1882, when the suburb of Gladstone was covered by the vast Waihopai bush, far from the hustle and bustle of the Invercargill township. J.T

Post Office Square was once a vital and vibrant hub of old Invercargill and gave the City a sheltered functional town center until 1938 when the NZ government decided Invercargill would put a new post office on this land instead. Decades following this decision Invercargill has struggled to establis

Today we continue the history of the former “Crescent Hotel” which I featured last week. Stock & Station agents Wright Stephenson & Co. Ltd would become a well remembered occupant of the former hotel building (the grey building in centre of this image taken around 1956), with their name now emblazon