New Zealand - Warkworth - Warkworth Primary School - Room 2 - 1980 Do you have more information about the school or the people in this photo? Please use the comment section below to share. To search for other photos from this school, please type the schools name in to our search engine. Warkworth - A town on the Northland Peninsula in the upper North Island - Warkworth, previously known as Browns Mill, was founded in 1853 by John Anderson Brown - The Warkworth district is known as the Kowhai Coast, named after the native kowhai tree - The town's annual Kowhai Festival is one of the largest community festivals in the country - New Zealand's main satellite communications ground station is located 5 km south of Warkworth. (Reference: Read more at https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/warkworth-satellite-earth-station)