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The Saxton legacy
Bridging Nelson City and Tasman District, Saxton Field is a major regional sporting facility, but the land it sits on used to be part of a large farm originally owned by early settler and gentleman...
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Tahunanui - the school by the sands
The story of Tahunanui School mirrors the rapid development its seaside location and the nearby beach into an established community and popular summer holiday destination.1View of Tahuna from Paddy's...
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Nelson Roller Sports Club
The Nelson Roller Sports Club is one of the longest running clubs in the country and is fortunate to have owned its permanent facility at the Tahunanui Beach Council Reserve since its inception in the...
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Heritage Tree Tales
Nelson is blessed with some spectacular heritage trees – many with interesting stories to tell. All of these, and more, are listed in the New Zealand Tree Register.College Gate gumThe College gum....
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Arthur Griffin and Nelson Hospital
The first hospital in Nelson was a primitive building, put up in the 1840's, attached to the barracks on Church Hill. The first permanent building was erected in 1853 at the corner of Rutherford and...
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George and Susan Landon-Lane
George and Susan Landon-Lane lived for much of their married life in New Zealand. The story of their earlier lives in England is an interesting one.George Landon-Lane. Image supplied by authorIn early...
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Nelson and Women’s Suffrage
The Women’s Suffrage Petition of 1893, which was a major contributor to the success of the Electoral Act in that same year, giving women the right to vote, is now available online with the original...
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Ralph Watson and the Everetts of Nelson
At Home and Away during World War I: A Tale of Two FamiliesAlbert Edward (Bert) Everett was born in Nelson in 1857 and was the fifth of ten children. He came from a prominent Nelson family with civic...
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Maitai Dam
Pre-dam schemesThe Maitai River was first considered for water supply in the 1930s. At this time the Brook Scheme (commissioned in 1867) was unable to meet demand.Rather than proceed with the Maitai,...
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Jack Rawson - transporting the wounded
This story continues the story of Dick Rawson’s father in World War I. Part I told of Nelson resident, Dick Rawson's father at the outbreak of World War I.Dr. Jack Rawson joined the war as an officer...
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The Rawsons and the outbreak of World War One
WW1 – The outbreak, 1914, including at sea with Capt von Muller and SMS EmdenIn 2011 I wrote1 of the terror and dilemma faced by Taranaki citizens at the outbreak of an earlier war (1860) when, under...
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John Ribet of Hope Junction
John Ribet 1835-1890. From France to Kawatiri : Mine Host of the Hope Junction HotelRibet was born in France in 1835, and baptised into the Roman Catholic Church as Jacques-François. He was a man of...
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Glenhope Pioneers
The pioneers of the Hope Valley are commemorated by a memorial at Glenhope.The small rock cairn was originally erected by the Owen Women’s Institute in 1935, close to Korere on the Nelson-Murchison...
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George Batt
Drover and BullockyGeorge Batt (1854-1931) was born in the Waimea Plains area near Nelson, the sixth child of John and Ann Batt who had emigrated from Hampshire in 1842.George Batt with two dogsImage...
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George Fairweather Moonlight 1832-1884
Good as GoldLegends clung around George Moonlight, from the provenance of his unusual names- it was rumoured he was born on a fine night (Fairweather), abandoned and found in the moonlight; to his...
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Trooper Leonard Tarrant and his Memorial
Trooper Leonard Mathews Tarrant and the Tarrant Memorial, Motueka QuayLeonard Tarrant was born 8 February 1871 to Henry Alexander Tarrant and Katherine, nee Saxon, in Brightwater. He came to Motueka...
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Hope Saddle Accommodation house
No remnant of the old Hope Saddle Accommodation building, which was later known as the Moorhouse Creek Accommodation house, now exists, except for a few old fruit trees. The house site now lies under...
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Jack Rawson at Gallipoli
Nelson resident, Dick Rawson, tells the story of his father’s role, as a doctor, in World War I. This is part three of Jack Rawson’s story. Part one spoke of the outbreak of War and part two of the...
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Jeff Grimmett
In 2014 Nelson Youth Council conducted a series of interviews for Heritage Week 2015. They spoke with people involved in areas of health and medicine and this is one of a number of stories which was...
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Moya Anderson
In 2014 Nelson Youth Council conducted a series of interviews for Heritage Week 2015. They spoke with people involved in areas of health and medicine and this is one of a number of stories which was...
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