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  11.09.19

  Tea & Talk: In Their Own Words

  Join us for a talk which looks at the journeys and the experiences of various early settlers and groups who traveled to the Mahurangi area. […]

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  11.09.19

  Celebrating 50 years of the Kowhai Festival.
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  11.09.19

  Tea & Talk Warkworth: Incidents, Accidents & Tragedies

  Local author Bryan Jackson will be sharing some of the more interesting tales that make up our area’s history and will also speak about how […]

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  16.04.19

  Tea & Talk: Nathaniel Wilson and the Wilson Cement Works

  Many thanks go to Ian Ferguson on his very interesting talk about Nathaniel Wilson and the Wilson Cement works. A great deal of research went […]

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  05.05.20

  Mahurangi Heads Post Office

  Because of the lack of roads Mahurangi’s early settlers relied on coastal trading vessels for contact with the wider world. This led to its early […]

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  01.05.20

  1950’s Electrical Toaster

  Before pop-up toasters there was this kind which dates to the 1950s. It still toasted two slices at once but only one side at a […]

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  24.04.20

  James Malcolm Fleming Shaw

  Born 25 September 1880 in Warkworth. James’s parents, William and Marion Shaw, lived at “Burnside”, Pohuehue. On his enlistment in 1917 he was living in […]

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  23.04.20

  Ralph Semple Darrach

  Born 10 April 1893. Describing himself as a “wireless student” Ralph enlisted on 21 July 1916. He was killed in action at Ypres 28 December […]

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