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Judy Waters
History – An active Red Cross
On her whistle stop tour of the Pacific, America’s First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt touched down in New Zealand on Saturday, August 28, 1943. In a...
History – Delightful destination
Even before motor transport was available, picnic parties and summer campers found their way to Snells Beach. My grandmother, like others of her generation, brought...
History – Gone, but not forgotten
February 3, 1917, was long remembered as the day of the big flood, which carried away the Bone Mill Bridge in Warkworth. By late afternoon...
History – Wheels of industry roll through time
In a family history held in the archives of the Warkworth & Districts Museum can be found this description of a farming scene, circa 1920:“On...
History – The Mahurangi wedding: a history
When immigrant ships arrived at the port of Auckland, young men would line the foreshore to view any single women as they came ashore. A...
History – Kowhai seedling bears fruit
As the story goes, three Warkworth identities were having a conversation in Kowhai Park, when the question of the town having its own festival was...
History – Remembering Riverina
From small beginnings, the archives kept at the Warkworth Museum have grown into a useful resource. Donations of photographs, documents, family trees, diaries and publications...
History – Birth of the Bridgehouse
The site on which the modern Bridgehouse hotel stands in Warkworth is significant because it marks the spot of the earliest European habitation in the...
History – Mahurangi’s first schools
An inkwell and pieces of broken slate, brought to the surface by a plough, confirm that an early school once stood on the headland inside...
History – Pioneering women
The role played by pioneer women in the settlement of the district is to be the subject of a display at the Warkworth Museum later...
