This is Bill Tucker, or Young Bill as he was once known – which sounds strange considering he turns 91 this year.

Bill lost his father when he was 7, a week before the Hawke’s Bay earthquake. Two monumental traumas in a space of days. “Traumas” is a word I’d use, Bill’s expression would be something […]

The first thing you notice when you meet Roger Carter for the first time is that he has a wooden leg. And that he’s old. But it becomes abundantly clear that to define Roger by his disability would be both ignorant and short-sighted. Roger is much, much more than an old-boy with a peg leg, […]

Now 93 years of age, Wellington born Trevor Gollins and his older brother Graham (who would go on to fly Supermarine Spitfires in WWII) were the 5th generation of his family to have lived in Oriental Bay, his great-great-grandparents having been amongst the very first settlers.

Trevor recalls his childhood with fondness. Growing up as part […]

When I was trying to get my music career off the ground in London, a good friend of mine diagnosed my problem: I had no story. I was your everyday bloke with nothing to really say for myself. No addictions, no convictions, no point of interest.

Well, this is the very brief story of a man […]