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The story of an industry that put Warkworth on the map in the late 1880s is the subject of an extensive exhibition at the Warkworth Museum, which opened last week.
The exhibition chronicles the history of the Wilson Cement Works, founded by Nathaniel Wilson, and the people who worked there, through archival material, photographs, original items and artworks.
At the exhibition opening, museum president Brenda Yoxall thanked the volunteers for the months of work that had gone into the project, describing it as “an act of love”. She said the cement works played a critical role in laying the economic foundations of Warkworth and Nathaniel, and his brothers John and James, were true pioneers in the cement industry. “There was a lot of experimentation before they were able to commercially manufacture cement, which went on to become the Portland Cement Company,” she said.
She thanked the Fletcher Trust, Auckland’s Maritime Museum and Golden Bay Cement for their support. The exhibition will be on show for about a year.
