Judy Waters

In the Warkworth Museum archives can be found three boxes labelled Wartime Warkworth. Amongst such varied items as ration books and knitting patterns for soldiers’...

“Warkworth is, after lying in a dormant state for nearly half a century, at last bestirring itself and judging by the traffic coming in from...

It is now more than 90 years since 100,000 young men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces journeyed to distant lands to take part in...

A tennis club was formed in Warkworth 117 years ago in 1893. Instrumental in promoting the sport were Mr W. Worsley, headmaster of the school,...

Mill Lane was so named simply because it was the road leading to the mill. Built on the riverbank close to the present dam by...

Amongst those who shaped the town of Warkworth in its formative years the name of Reverend Robert McKinney is well known. Much has been written...

At the point on the Mahurangi River where fresh water meets the tidal flow a fierce tribal conflict once took place and the area was...

The following excerpt from the journal of Augusta Breese (nee Wyatt) recalls experiences common to a number of families who settled in the Kaipara Flats...

In the 1890’s a Warkworth grocer named James Byrt Jordon and his wife Mary Jane had four daughters. On Mrs Jordon’s initiative the Girls’ Mutual...

Sandspit has been a gathering place for people using boats for transport or pleasure since the earliest days of settlement. Seven coastal craft, bedecked with...