– Build 1893 – in 1988 relocated to Welsh Hills rd. No? [Rugged Determination, p133] Anthony Christian was born in 1862 at Matakana, son of Emanuel and Christina Christian, farmers of Tokatu Point near Warkworth. On 3 December 1884 Anthony married Maria Taylor, born in 1863 at Kawau, daughter of Samuel and Eliza Jane Taylor. Anthony took over his 500-acre Read more...
International award winning photographer Henry Winkelmann who settled in Swanson in 1917, was a notable figure in the community. English-born Winkelmann’s credentials included the grand prize at the Panam-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. His photographs covered a wide range of topics, well-known individuals and their families and residences, workers and their work-places, and significant events. In 1917 Read more...
Olaf Petersen was born in 1915 and lived all his life in Swanson. He was always very modest about his achievements, which included the Maadi Cup, awarded by the Photographic Society for the best photo of the year. Entitled “So Lonely” it was a haunting picture of a pied oystercatcher on sand dunes. Most of his successful shots have been Read more...
– Old house – Corner of Coulter and Drower rd (19 Coulter rd ?) [Dawn Ellis] Read more...