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Anthony G. Flude2nd Edition. HB/170x210P. 240 pp. ISBN: 9781877431210 In 1844 the Auckland firm of Henderson & Macfarlane swapped a ship for some 18,000 acres of land in the Whau in West Auckland. Thomas Maxwell Henderson, the senior partner and a hard-nosed Scotsmen, then proceeded to tear out the tall kauri timber from the Waitakere ranges and mill it at Henderson's Mill on Henderson Creek. After the mill closed in 1868, many came and left, but some stayed behind to build a life and eventually even a town. And that town became known as Henderson. These are their stories. Exploring the period 1840 to 1939, in this book you will meet Thomas Henderson himself; the Macfarlanes; William Swanson; John and Helen McLeod who founded Helensville; George Thomas the blacksmith; Robert Gibbons the Whatipu mill owner; the Corban family of winegrowers; the colourful Portugese Don Buck; the strange recluse Henry Swan; Claude Brookes and his Tui Glen playground; the Henderson Mill Turf Club; the Henderson Football Club; The Henderson School; the Henderson Library; the Henderson Fire Brigade; the Falls Hotel; the Waitemata Electric Power Board; and many of the people, families and institutions of the west. Henderson's Mill is a must-have reference work of both the history and the family names that contributed to the early district out West and the town of Henderson and its surrounding area, out as far as Helensville. It should be on every bookshelf in West Auckland.
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Note: about Anthony Flude
Anthony Flude was born and bought up in a small Sussex village in England, as a child his interest in history stimulated by the many Roman archaeological sites in the area. Arriving in New Zealand in 1963 with his wife Joyce and four young boys, he settled in the Henderson district where their daughter was born. While contributing articles to historical journals and publications he became intrigued about the history of the Henderson district in which he lived. Finding little recorded information, his research culminated in Henderson's Mill (1977), the first published history of the Henderson township. He has also published Circular Saw Line (1993), the story of Auckland's first commercial sailing ship line.
With this, the second edition of Henderson's Mill, Flude has taken the opportunity to revise and greatly expand the, now rare, first edition. With its new material, this is a must for those who live in, and love, West Auckland.
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