History

Thomas Schofield Ramsbottom was the grandson of Albertlanders who settled in Wellsford. As a young man he helped his father on the Wellsford-Warkworth coach service...

An energetic and entrpreneurial young man, Alexander Cleveland McArthur, was born in Manitoba, Canada in1888, and came to NZ with his family in 1901. By...

At the beginning of April 1924 widespread flooding and devastation hit various parts of the country but the worst hit region was from Silverdale, north...

James Alexander Cosgrave, who had arrived in NZ from Belfast with his parents in 1864, and his wife Ellen (nee Meale) of Upper Waiwera, lost...

On a ridge overlooking the Oruawharo River, Minniesdale is the oldest surviving church in Albertland. Edwin Stanley Brookes Senior was a Nottingham lace and hosiery...

Born in Upper Waiwera in 1892, to William Junior and Sarah Barker, Donald Stuart McCathie joined the Auckland Mounted Rifles in Kihikihi, where he was...

Before you grizzle about the state of the roads today, think back to what earlier generations had to cope with. By the early 1920s motoring...

Alexander Cleveland McArthur, aged 26, of Silverdale, along with other farmers, gum diggers and bushmen enlisted in the Auckland Mounted Rifles. Troopers had to provide...

James Robertson McArthur was working as a clerk in his brother Alexander’s Silverdale store when, at the age of 19, he enlisted for WWI. It...

Mangawhai Museum is privileged to be able to present to the district a special exhibition of the life and works of the late John Foster,...