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• THE BOMBAY – THE REBUILD

  With the recent 160th celebration of the settlers arriving to Auckland on board the Bombay, it is time for a much needed rebuild and revamp of this website paying homage…

  

• The Bombay

  Apologies one and all for a long leave of absence, both personally and professionally I have been very busy. But I can assure you I am back to finish what…

• Bombay Rugby Football Club: The first two years

  Even in my lifetime, Rugby has seen dramatic changes, from my days in the 1970’s playing First Fifteen with my Primary and Intermediate School to modern day professionalism. It should…

  

• A sad day for for Bombay Rugby Club

  The Bombay Rugby Club was formed just over 20 years after the descendants of the Bombay settled in the area in 1888 not content with the backbreaking work of clearing…

  

• Earliest image of Bombay

  View of tree stumps and cleared bush at Williamson’s Clearing (Bombay) near Great South Road (Hayr’s Line)

• The Captain of the Bombay: A History

  Captain George Sellars, Ships Master. On the day that England captures Washington and in the midst of a fine Scottish summer, our future Captain and Master of the ship Bombay, George…

• Horace and Harry!

  It is a well known story and often told… Of the young men, if not boys, that enlisted for service under age. Private Horace from Leeds was just 14 when…

  

• The Ship Bombay

  The Beginning  The Ship Bombay was commissioned by George Dorman Tyser in 1860 to the Ship Builders Mr John H Vaux & Co. Ltd, for the grand price of £30,000. A princely sum, and difficult to…