Tauranga Historical Society

Pilot Bay in the 1800s Image: John Kinder, Mt Mau nganui, Tauranga, 1874, 1937/15/46 , Auckland Art Gallery, Toi O Tamaki On 26th June 202...

Fishing off the Town Wharf, Tauranga, 1960s. Tauranga Museum 0005/20/1194 Childhood memories of casting homemade handlines from local wharve...

Yatton Park from above, 2026.   Mansel Street is at extreme top-left corner.   The site of the original homestead, above the bend of the Wai...

From Tauranga City Library’s archives A monthly blog about interesting items in our collection Image of Virginia Marshall (nee Williams). Ta...

  Between 1864 and the early 1900s, Tauranga Harbour was not merely a backdrop to the district’s maritime history; it was the engine of it. ...