Category: History on Otago Peninsula

Moments in Time… Ralph Miller was a highly talented Dunedin artist who died in 1956 at the young age of 37. He left over 1000 sketches and artworks most have been kept in the family for decades, some artworks are in galleries. A wide selection of Ralph Miller’s sketches and paintings are reproduced and presented within the context of his life and the events and people who influenced him. This book for the first time shows the quality and extent of his work, which now has real historical value. You can see Ralph Miller’s work on the website www.ralphmiller.co.nz

During 2009 Brian & Diane Miller spent most of the year involved in historical research on Macandrew Bay – a project which resulted in the book Macandrew Bay a social history of a community on the Otago Peninsula. As part of this project and the 150th celebrations of the local school several people wrote accounts of their life or that of their families from Macandrew Bay. This book completes the history project and combines the stories from many local families spanning a wide range of years from 1848 to 2012. The stories make fascinating reading and the book includes complete cemetery records up to 2012.

Les Parson’s spent years researching the early records of Macandrew Bay and this book records the development of early shops, businesses and farming in Macandrew Bay. Also contains lists of who lived in each house up to the 1960’s.