Jane Roberston has lived in Governors Bay at the head of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour for twenty years. She has a doctorate in education, has taught history and English, and worked as a teacher-educator, a researcher in the field of higher education and an editor and local history researcher/writer. Her previous publications include a short history of Risingholme Community Centre and a significant local history, Head of the Harbour about Governors Bay, Ohinetahi, Allandale and Teddington. Her interest in the history of the area developed when she was co-editing the local Bay News and decided to record the memories of some older residents.