Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Riverhead and Brigham's Creek
Date
20th Century
Level of Current Record
Parent
Media/Materials
Technique
Subject Category
Provenance Details
Warkworth and District Museum Society passed the photos on to Helensville & District Historical Society 21 August 1988 and subsequently passed on to the Auckland Museum.
Content
1. Harvesting oats Brigham's Creek 1921
2. Oat stacks (as in Scotland) Brighams Creek, 1921
3. Thomas William Deacon ((1823-1918) Ran the hotel at Riverhead
4. Mrs Mary Ann Greenhalgh (nee Fox). The Greenhalghs ran the Paper Mill.
5. Girls at the Riverhead State Forest Nursery weed seedling tree beds
6. School children at Riverhead School on Lord Ranfurly's visit 1 June 1903
7. Earl of Ranfurly with Paper Mill employees and guests 1 June 1903. NZ Graphic
8. Pack horse train leaving Brigham's Creek for gumfields
9. Old Smith family home (photo taken 1965
10. Bradney & Binns steamer, possibly Onewa, a fruit and passenger boat and excursion boat to Riverhead on Sundays
11. Riverhead Paper Mill. Site near present SH18 bridge crossing
12. P.S. Enterprise No 1. Competed with P.S. Waitemata on Riverhead run
C6071 Brigham's Creek. Gum-diggers' shanties
C6072 Brigham's Creek. Scow on creek
C6073 Brigham's Creek [woman and children in dingy]
C6075 Brigham's Creek. Sinton's farm and houses [children in foreground]
C6078 Brigham's Creek. Alex Sinton's house
C6079 Brigham's Creek c1902 [Men on horseback driving cattle]
C6083 Brigham's Creek. Shearing [lunch break]
C6084 Brigham's Creek. Shearing
C6085 Brigham's Creek. Hay-making [children]
C6086 Brigham's Creek [ploughing]
C6087 Brigham's Creek. Stockman [on horseback]
C6088 Railway crossing [and creamery] near Kumeu
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Last Update
26 Sep 2024
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