North Shore City media release

Celebrate Heritage Week with North Shore Libraries

October 5, 2007

Heritage Week returns shortly and North Shore Libraries are celebrating with lots of activities for budding historians.

The council-supported programme begins on Sunday, October 28 and continues through to Sunday, November 4.

Come and explore the tunnels of North Head with Devonport Library.  Learn about its military history, the tunnels, searchlights, guns, and defences that were put there to protect Auckland from feared Russian invasions.

Birkenhead Library is celebrating Heritage Week with a bus tour of historical Birkenhead.  A member of the historical society will entertain you with all the interesting facts and tales of days gone by in Birkenhead.

Celebrate your genealogy at Albany Village Library’s demonstration and ‘hands on’ workshop using the www.Ancestry.com database.  For the younger members of the family, turn back the clock with the Yesterday’s Toys display and find out what toys your older relatives played with in the days before TV and Playstations.

Glenfield Library is busy running a number of events in association with the Glenfield Historical Society.  These activities include a guided bus tour, a photo display of rural Glenfield, and learn how to knit at the heritage craft morning.

Come and discover what Takapuna was like in 1940 at Takapuna Library.  There will be displays of plans, photographs and scale models of the first two homes that were built.  There will also be of photographs of early Takapuna and Hall’s Corner which celebrates its centenary this year.

Heritage is anything with significance or special value for future generations as well as for the community today.  The week aims to showcase heritage and bring it to life across the city.

Heritage Week events will take place all over the city.  For more information and event lists please check out the posters in your local library or visit www.northshorecity.govt.nz, key word Heritage Week.

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