Grand Pharmacies II

A history of the first chemists in Wairarapa from 1869 through to the early 20th century. Includes information of early medicines, tasks performed by the early pharmacist, how early chemists became qualified and a catalogue of embossed prescription bottles used by Wairarapa firms.
Published 2021.
ISBN 978-0-473-57368-3

100 Years 100 Lives

100 Years 100 Lives is a project of remembrance. A collaboration between Wairarapa Times-Age and Wairarapa Archive, it presents the stories of 100 Wairarapa people whose lives were affected by World War I. Many of which have not been told before. Some, if not for the research undertaken for this project, may never have been told.
Written with Gareth Winter.
Published 2018
ISBN 978-0-473-45724-2

Grand Pharmacies

Covers the history of all the pharmacies in the Hastings and Havelock North areas that operated from 1881 to 1959. Pharmacists' roles during the World Wars, the effects of the 1931 earthquake, and modern photographs of the locations of these former pharmacies are also included.
Published 2015
ISBN 978-1-312-83305-0

First for Thirst

Gilberd and Company started out as a small factory in a rented shed on a horse-stables lot in Napier in 1871 under the short lived partnership between James Gilberd and Alfred Budd. From the mid-1870s the Sweetapple family joined the company, first taking a 50 per cent share and later taking full control of the company. In three generations the family had helped transform Gilberd's from a small shed-based operation to one of New Zealands's biggest and longest running soft drink firms. The factory closed in 1986 after 115 years.
First for Thirst covers al aspects of the factory's history. From the early occupations of its founders and newspaper reports on visits to the factory, to the company's floats entered into the Hastings Blossom Parade and the art deco features of the third factory building, which is still standing. It also features an expensive catalogue of the 154 bottles used by Gilberd's known at the time of printing.

Published 2018
ISBN 978-1-387-06345-1

Burridge's Famous Brewery

The first brewery opened in Masterton in 1877. Since then there have been a number of brewers and breweries, but only one of them was successful. Burridge's famous brewery covers the early failures through fires, bankruptcies and closures through to the introduction of prohibition and the troubles that came from being a brewery in a dry town. Burridges famous brewery is throroughly illustrated and covers all the early breweries of Masterton as well as a catalogue of the bottles used by Burridge.
Published 2020
ISBN 978-1-67817-706-5