History

A stranger caused a sensation in the summer of 1916 when, without warning, he threw himself off the Warkworth bridge and fell 20 feet into...

Two of Warkworth’s oldest buildings still in use were built by Charles Thomson around 1870. Located at the lower end of Neville Street, they were...

Little more than 25 years ago, Mangawhai’s status as a popular seaside destination was under serious threat. Major storms in the 1970s and 1980s, including...

In 1904 Messrs J Clayden and J Parkinson discovered a substantial deposit of kauri gum on the low tide mark at Snells Beach. For three...

The clipper ship Flying Foam on her maiden voyage from London to Auckland in 1864 brought back the Maori chiefs and their wives who had...

Charles Ludwig Kaspar was born at Memel on the Baltic Sea about 1832 and came to New Zealand as a young man. The timber trade...

Education has been described as the most useful kind of luggage to carry with you as it weighs nothing, takes up no room and costs...

Organised picnics have long been enjoyed at this time of the year and though the mode of conveyance to such events has changed over the...

For each generation, remarkable changes take place, making travel faster and easier. We must all have remarked at some time on the travel time between...

The 93rd anniversary of the signing of the Armistice between Germany and the Allied Forces, heralding the end of hostilities in World War I, will...