Listen in to this Kura Tūturu | Real Gold track to hear from Sharon Smith, Senior Librarian Community Archives, on J.T Diamond and his deep love and connection to the Waitākere Ranges.

As an amateur historian and archaeologist Jack Diamond devoted over 60 years of his life to building a documentary heritage collection. His work provides a complete record of the region’s heavy clay and pottery industries between 1940 and 1980, and the most significant documentary record of the kauri timber industry in the Waitākere Ranges between 1830 and 1940.

In this show case and podcast we learn also of his links to the Auckland Tramping Club and Waitākere Ranges Protection Society.

Original items can be viewed in the Heritage Collections reading room, Level 2 of Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero | Central City Library through out January 2022, or via Research West in Henderson for access to the full collection.

Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2ULVUjaWlI&t=3s

Some digitised items feature in Kura Heritage Collections Online kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz

J.T Diamond Collection:

https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/manuscripts/id/9426/rec/1

Auckland Tramping Club:

https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/search/searchterm/Auckland%20Tramping%20Club

Waitakere Ranges Protection Society:

https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/oralhistory/id/731/rec/12