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Mrs Reardon sends in this interesting picture showing the Cook Hospital main entrance before it was modernised.

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Gisborne's famous battery trams are seen in this picture from Mr Fred Sparrow, looking down Gladstone road. But the main interest is probably in "Reynold's Corner", at right, where the new T. & G. Insurance building is to be built in the near future.

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From Mrs F. Sweeney, senior, comes this picture of Waipiro Bay in the early days (probably about 1880). Prominent in the centre of the picture are the school and the church.

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Charlie Brown's corner as it was away back, before the men's conveniences were built.

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This picture from Mrs G. M. Algie, Dannevirke, illustrates the difficulties of coach travel up the East Coast before the days of the modern road. Taken in 1909 it shows the coach traversing through the surf at Potae Rock when the easiest way round was along the beach. Aboard the coach with the driver, Fred Newey, are Dan Ball, a Tolaga Bay tobacconist, and Des McLeod.

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Early photo in lower Gladstone Road shows Post Office, Coronation Hotel, the old Masonic Hotel, the Herald building, and Hallenstein Bros. Builders are at work on the Herald office, either finishing the new building, or adding a balcony to it. Time has run full circle, and builders are again at work on the Herald premises, completely redesigning them.

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Another picture from Mrs Algie shows her father, Fred Newey, with a 1900 Royal Mail coach and five horses in Bright Street outside the Railway Stables, now the garage of Allen Bros & Johnstone.

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This very clear picture from Mr A. R. Smith shows the cantilever weights and pulleys which once (and we mean ONCE) worked the lifting span in the old Roebuck Road bridge.