My AccountGrappling with a dark history
Wed, 24 Jan 2024
Poster shows the atomic bomb’s mushroom cloud moments after detonation. Christmas Island 1957. Image, Royal NZ Navy Museum Some 22,000 personnel were on Kiritimati during...
/HistoryWalks around Wilson cement works
Mon, 22 Jan 2024
There’s a chance to find out more about one of Warkworth’s most distinctive attractions over the coming weeks, when the town’s Cement Works Conservation Trust...
/EntertainmentHistory – A Mangawhai sawmiller
Tue, 19 Dec 2023
John Hunter Penman, born at Oxnam, Scotland, in 1826, arrived at Auckland on Friday, 16 March, 1860, on the sailing ship Blue Jacket with his...
/HistoryWarkworth pioneer descendants celebrate, remember
Wed, 13 Dec 2023
Descendants of Warkworth’s pioneering families, many of them in period costume, gathered in the town hall on November 18 for a lunch celebrating the settlement’s...
/Health & LifestyleMuseum calls for digitisation volunteers
Thu, 23 Nov 2023
Heritage project volunteers neededWarkworth Museum is looking for people to become involved in this project and hopes to create a couple of teams, which will...
/HistoryHistory – An exhibition of collaboration
Wed, 22 Nov 2023
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...
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