My AccountDr Shoesmith, I presume
Tue, 6 Jun 2023
One of Warkworth’s founding fathers, John Valentine Shoesmith, arrived on New Zealand’s shores in rather clandestine circumstances. Born in Burnley, Lancashire, in 1854, he was...
/HistoryHistory – An inside peep
Tue, 6 Jun 2023
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...
/HistoryHistory – Hardy settlers
Tue, 23 May 2023
On Thursday, 29 May, 1862, the Matilda Wattenbach was towed by powerful steam tugs from the London Docks to Gravesend. The 352 passengers on board...
/HistoryUrgent help needed to save deteriorating cement works
Mon, 22 May 2023
The board meeting heard that vandals were trying to destroy one of the cement works’ chimneys. Vandals are trying to knock down a chimney and...
/HistoryHistory – Sentinel rock and the groyne
Tue, 9 May 2023
The history of the Mangawhai River and breakwater is only recorded from our early European settler days. We don’t have stories from local Maori as...
/HistoryHistory – Nurse Upton and the Maheno
Thu, 27 Apr 2023
Although Florence Winifred Upton, born in 1876, probably had an uncomplicated childhood growing up in the small Kaipara Harbour community at Whakapirau, World War I...
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