Welcome  to the First Year on the Thames Goldfield, a Thames 150th Anniversary project, written during 2017 - 2018.

150th blog click here

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Dead Cert - stories from local Thames Valley  cemeteries- 

The Valley Profile - click here

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A trip through time in our council cemeteries - 

Our Coromandel magazine Summer 2022/2023

https://issuu.com/ourcoromandel/docs/ourcoro_mag_2022-23_web/s/17308601

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Other Thames stories - 

A consummate scoundrel -

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The curious case of Thames Rugby's 150th

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Honouring Helena

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The more you have it -the more you want

Thames's season of madness

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NZ's worst civil disaster & its tragic  link to Thames

The curious story of the real author of the Thames Miner's Guide

The Miracle

The man who was not what he seemed

An extraordinary feat

The resurrection of John Gallagher 

Thames Ghost Stories

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To continue to the 150th blog click here 

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Suffrage 125 contribution (2018)

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/suffragist/mrs-p-lamb

Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 7-A12552

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Books by Meghan Hawkes  click here

Te Awamutu News weekly columns

Tales from the Passed

A snip in time

https://www.teawamutunews.nz/?s=Meghan+Hawkes

https://www.teawamutunews.nz/about/publications/

Misadventures in a bus
http://www.firstyearthamesgoldfield.co.nz/2024/04/the-buttercup-diaries-misadventures-in.html

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