The founder of Warkworth: John Anderson Brown 1801-1867:

The Claymore which collided with the Kapanui in 1905

The Raising of the sunken steamer

ss. Kapanui in dry dock after the 1905 collision

1919 moving house from Warkworth for the soldiers settlement at Streamlands

Property of John and Mary Shoesmith

Cenotaph and War Memorial at intersection of Queen Street and Mill Lane

Warkworth 1923

Miss Eva Stange a winner at Rodney Agricultural Show 1930

1931 great Warkworth fire

Bridge, tearooms and Bridgehouse 1930’s

Governor General inspecting Rodney RSA members

Warkworth Wharf 1936

Sole Bros. Circus elephant Mill Lane 1938

Bathing by the Bridgehouse

Riding the elephant

Elephant Bathing

Flooding c.1934

Bathing by the Bridgehouse

Warkworth in 1940’s

Warkworth in 1940’s

Grave of John Anderson Brown

1953 Tudor Collins Garage

A band at Warkworth A&P Show 4/5 February 1955

Opening of Warkworth District High School by M.P. Jack Scott 1958

1953 Les Ginn welcomes her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II & His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to Warkworth

Warkworth June 1956

Aerial view of Warkworth 1963

Old Bridge

Warkworth 1970’s Ham

Warkworth June 1976

Warkworth 1970’s

Kowhai Festival 1973 Country-Western theme

Warkworth 1981

Cement Works

Queen Street 1987

Soldier WW1

Flood rescue 1934

Shooting 1937

Feasting with Americans

Tudor in Naval uniform 1940’s

Tudor in later life

John Reid Brown the son of John Anderson Brown

Sarah Margaret

James Strange Meiklejohn and wife Catherine (nee Mustard)

Septimus Meiklejohn and wife Jane (nee McGechie)

Mr. and Mrs. John Morrison

John and Janet Morrison (nee Ralston)

Morison brothers: From left: William, Dugald, James, Robert and Edward

Mrs. Pulham 1854

Mr. Mrs. John Southgate

Edward Morrison

Thomas Sanderson

Nathaniel, Florence and William Wilson c.1865

William Wilson

Nathaniel, James, John Wilson

Mary Snell (nee Roberts)

Edward and Annie Morrison

Isabella Wilson (nee Govan)

James Snell

Isabella and William Bowen

Charles de La Roche first editor of Rodney and Otamatea Times

John and Alice Morrison wedding 1904

Committee and Judges Agricultural and Pastoral Show 1903

Frederick Hubert Clarke (35)

Frederick Heavey (16) with his stepfather

Peter Carter (19)

John Fletcher (Hannah Fattooch) (19)

Home of William Wilson 1858.

Southgate hotel with stables in 1870’s

Bowen’s store

Old Primary School in Percy Street

Masonic Hall

Catholic Church

Methodist Church in Mill Lane

1919 Warkworth Branch of BNZ staff and family

Warkworth in 1920’

1926 Warkworth Hospital

Bridgehouse Lodge 1953

1953 Court House

1953 corner of Neville Street

1953 Stubbs Butchery

Robert’s Corner 1953

Warkworth Post Office

Masonic Hall

Presbyterian Church

Catholic Church

Methodist Church

Courthouse established 1880

170th Birthday Event

The cake

All the town got involved

Military March November 11 2023

Military March November 11 2023

Military March November 11 2023

Military March November 11 2023

Warkworth RSA marchers

Military March November 11 2023

Military March November 11 2023

Official Party with National Member of Parliament Chris Penk on dias

March down Queens Street

The march

Rolling forward

Military vehicle

The Royal NZ Navy Band

The Royal NZ Navy Band

The Royal NZ Navy Band

Descendants of John Anderson Brown and John Reid Brown.

6th generation Brown descendants: Amelia, Jasmine, Klara and Elyse Brown

Debbie Eves, June Dill, Diane Greenwood and Alice Sullivan

Dave Parker, Lyn Wade and descendants of Andrew Hamilton: Trotter and Buchs families

Ruth and Bill Munroe, Mary Ireland

Nina Blackburn and Chris Miller