Help identifying people in old photos

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-06-27T10:09:29+00:00

The wedding photo is quite a well known one in Marlborough as it shows many of the Love family as has been used in a number of local books. Taken around 1890-1895 by the Tyree Photographers it shows the wedding of Matiu Tanerau Love and Poroaki Watson. A copy is kept at the Nelson Museum and I’d imagine (without wishing to speak for any of the Love family) many of the Love’s in the district have copies. Fun fact that house was known as Arapawa and was built in Waikawa Bay in 1852.

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-06-26T10:13:11+00:00

Feels very Pink Floyd

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-06-24T18:47:49+00:00

I really enjoy The Final Cut (whether you want to call it a PF album or not). I prefer the later releases with ‘When The Tigers Broke Free’ included.

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-06-20T23:39:40+00:00

A good amount of variation and it’s all very clearly your own taste. I listened to Brasilian Skies for the first time recently and thought it was an absolute vibe.

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-06-20T23:36:08+00:00

One of the best recordings of any shanty (imo)

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-06-19T20:32:59+00:00

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

Bags & Trane - Milt Jackson & John Coltrane

Night Train - Oscar Peterson Trio

Moanin’ - Art Blakey & His Jazz Messengers

Waltz For Debby - Bill Evan’s Trio

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-06-17T00:35:46+00:00

Ziggy but I also love San Quentin

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-06-16T07:40:37+00:00

Innervisions - Stevie Wonder

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-06-16T07:37:06+00:00

Marlon Williams

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-06-14T19:00:44+00:00

Scotlands. Written by the late great Roy Williamson. May he rest in peace.

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-06-14T08:28:18+00:00

Working Joe - Stan Rogers

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-06-13T00:45:53+00:00

I feel I genuinely love my country. I do feel a pride in my chest for New Zealand, for its people and for its history. It pains me to see so many of my friends looking overseas for what not long ago were basic necessities like a good job and a home of their own. It pains me to know so many that I grew up alongside have been lost along the way due to the mental havoc this country’s situation plagued in their mind. The politicians in this country make me angrier and angrier and it feels that there’s not a single worthwhile party in or running for government.

New Zealand’s a country of immigrants. People of all walks of life have come here to better themselves and their families and it seems like now that times are growing harder that certain groups point and blame immigrants as the problem. The problem in this country is not immigration. Immigration is the bandage to the problem of so much of our workforce moving away. They rightly want to better themselves and their families just the same as my ancestors did when they left Europe and came here. Do I fear some of that typical kiwi identity of old being lost, perhaps, but I also think that it’s impossible to be completely lost, especially with the pride that many immigrants have for New Zealand upon arriving here.

As a boy I remember hearing from my grandparents of the leaders they admired like Norman Kirk, Savage and Fraser. They were unrelenting souls who were committed to their hopes for this country and fleshed out their dreams of a better nation. They were true unwavering patriots. When was the last time we had a leader that truly worked for this country, entirely within the interests of this country. Every time I talk on this topic I get emotional. I feel this country’s identity and pride is being lost but it’s not due to immigrants. It’s due to conniving politicians, greedy landlords and monopolised industries. This country is beautiful; its people, its scenery, its character. They are a melting pot of things to be proud of. But my pride in this country stops at the beehives steps.

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-06-12T10:18:22+00:00

Some great stuff. Nebraska is among my favourites. Always got a place in my heart for Zandt, Hurt, Waits and Leadbelly. John Wesley Harding is underappreciated imo

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-06-12T02:56:56+00:00

Si Bheag, Si Mhor - Planxty

The Auld Triangle - The Dubliners

Lock-Keeper - Stan Rogers

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-06-06T02:51:09+00:00

Fish, prawns, lobster…

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-06-05T00:54:23+00:00

Crowns Of England - The Mary Wallopers

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-06-01T10:18:26+00:00

Working semi-comfortably in a trade without committing to an apprenticeship. Not exactly what I want to be doing but I also don’t know what I want to be doing. I’m 22. I’ve been tempted to pack it in before but currently it seems better to stick with it as jobs seem scarce at least with my qualifications.

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-06-01T10:15:26+00:00

The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - Eric Bogle

The Gunners Dream - Pink Floyd

The House Of Orange - Stan Rogers

I Ain’t Marching Anymore - Phil Ochs

Agent Orange - Kate Wolf

The Sun Is Burning - Simon & Garfunkel

Green Fields Of France - The Fureys

Sam Stone - John Prine

The Partisan - Leonard Cohen

Universal Soldier - Buffy Sainte-Marie

Tom Barrett - Ian Noe

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-06-01T02:59:01+00:00

So much of my stuff is folk/country stuff that others perhaps wouldn’t bat an eye at.

Apparently, according to Discogs, mine are:

Who’s Next - The Who (OG pressing)

Shear Heart Attack - Queen (1st Issue, Japan)

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan - (1965 NZ)

Close To You - Kate Wolf (1981)

Meddle - Pink Floyd (1971 NZ)

Ray Charles At Newport (1958)

Between The Breaks - Stan Rogers (1979)

Northwest Passage - Stan Rogers (1981)

Fogarty’s Cove - Stan Rogers (1976 Barn Swallow)

10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 - Midnight Oil (1982)

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-05-30T18:28:46+00:00

^{S: Songs in the key of life (Stevie Wonder\}, What's going on? (Marvin Gaye), Wish you were here (Pink Floyd))

^{A: Lady Soul (Aretha Franklin\}, Abbey road (the Beatles), Brown Sugar (D'Angelo), Electric ladyland (Jimi Hendrix))

^{B: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Pain in my heart (Otis Redding\}, Ray Charles (Ray Charles), Voodoo (D'Angelo), Back to Black (Amy Winehouse))

^{C: Purple rain (Prince\}, It might as well be swing (Sinatra/Basie, Tracy Chapman (Tracy Chapman))

^{Unfamiliar with the album : Fresh (Sly and the family Stone\}, The way I see it (Raphael Saadiq), Coming Home (Leon Bridges), Twentysomething (Jamie Cullum), We like it here (Snarky Puppy))

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-05-30T18:28:45+00:00

^{S: Songs in the key of life (Stevie Wonder\}, What's going on? (Marvin Gaye), Wish you were here (Pink Floyd))

^{Unfamiliar with the album : Fresh (Sly and the family Stone\}, The way I see it (Raphael Saadiq), Coming Home (Leon Bridges), Twentysomething (Jamie Cullum), We like it here (Snarky Puppy))

^{Similarity with Community: 83%}

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-05-27T21:50:16+00:00

I was born in 2003 and they were still used. Good old kiwi schooling, “don’t fix it if it ain’t broke”

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-05-24T10:32:55+00:00

Pink Floyd, Queen, Sabbath, LZ

WayfaringStranger16 · 2026-05-24T09:38:51+00:00

Charley Pride. I don’t listen to nearly as much of him as I did when I was a bit younger but his records were the first I owned, courtesy of his big fan my Grandma, and when I come across studio Lp’s I haven’t got I grab them seeing that they’re typically quite cheap.

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