Lyn Wade - History

In our modern world, with its many ways of instant communication, it is hard to imagine a world where local letters were hand-delivered by boat...

Warkworth Museum has just opened its exhibition of the Wilson’s cement story. What an amazing collection. Follow the timeline from Nathaniel’s arrival in New Zealand...

The intention of our Warkworth and District Museum is to preserve the local area’s history. When you visit the museum you will see wonderful displays...

In 1858, William Wilson and his 22-year-old son, Nathaniel, bought land in the newly opened up Mahurangi area on what is now known as Wilson...

Did you know that your local Warkworth Museum was not only started by volunteers in the 1970’s but is staffed by an army of some...

The present Birthing Centre in Warkworth, which opened in 2000, stands on land that once held Warkworth’s first hospital. This was a five-roomed cottage acquired...

The Warkworth area is growing quickly and with many new folk moving into the area I thought some history of our local museum might be...

The Warkworth Museum has diaries from many local families. During our latest lockdown, I wondered whether it might be interesting to look at the restricted...

Until the 1930s, there were few all-weather roads and ships were the main transportation in Mahurangi. Punts – flat-bottomed, shallow draught, small boats – were...

Edward Morrison was born in Auckland in 1850, eight years after his parents, Janet and John Morrison, had arrived on the Jane Gifford from Scotland....