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Brightwater Tuna
Waimeha HeritageBrightwater is part of the Waimeha Plains, and is along the traditional trading route for Māori between Whakatū (Nelson) and Te Tai Poutini (The West Coast). A number of pā or Kāinga...
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The Wairau Valley Cemeteries
Anglican Church of the Good ShepherdIn the town of Wairau Valley in Marlborough, there are two main cemeteries which have been used over the past 160 years. One is tucked neatly between the community...
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Wakapuaka North
About 14km north of Nelson is a picturesque area that one might think of as just farmland. Ngāti Tama settled here around 1825 and have recently signed a Deed of Settlement relating to land claims in...
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Art and Architecture of Trafalgar Street, Nelson
Trafalgar Street in Nelson lost many of its historic, and iconic, buildings in the 1980’s. This was a time when there was a drive to modernise cities, and little protection or care for heritage...
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Kehu - Māori Guide Extraordinaire
Kehu described himself as Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri, which was his father Tamane’s tribe, although he was also Ngāti Apa / Ngāi Tahu through his mother Mata Nohinohi.Tūmatakōkiri dominated the South Island...
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Murchison
Emerging from the bushThe discovery of gold and the search for grazing land were the initial driving forces behind the establishment of the township of Hampden, which later became known as Murchison.1...
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New and altered geographic names of Te Tau ihu
On 1 August 2014, a number of new or altered geographic names took effect as a result of the following Treaty Claims settlements:Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō, Ngāti Kuia and Rangitāne o Wairau Claims Treaty...
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Auckland Point Market
Auckland Point, or Matangi Āwhio was a pā, kāinga or seasonal camping site from at least the fifteenth century. Henry Thompson, representative of the Government-appointed Trustees of Native Reserves,...
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Auckland Point School
Auckland Point School Through the Decades 1927 - 2011Auckland Point School was once one of the largest schools in Nelson, opening in 1927 with a roll call of four hundred children. 84 years on, there...
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Rocks Road
In a line of five o'clock commuter traffic, listening to drive time radio, it's hard to imagine the days when Rocks Road was a narrow, precarious, wave-swept walkway between the town and the beach....
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The first Sharland
When James Henry Sharland stepped off the John Masterman ship on the 8th February 18571 he had his son James Frederick Sharland and his partner Julia Lazarus at his side. They would have been greeted...
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Albert Nalder
Albert McCormack Nalder was born on the 12th April 1891 at Motupipi, Golden Bay. His parents were Thomas William Nalder and Mary McCormick.At age five Albert lived with his family at Bainham in a...
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Bainham General Store
A living museumDriving along the country roads on the outskirts of Collingwood in Golden Bay, with lush green paddocks spreading far and wide and cows staring at you intently, the last thing you expect...
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The Nelson Contingent at Parihaka
The Nelson Company of VolunteersIn mid-June 1880 the grateful citizens of Nelson and outlying settlements gave prizes to the volunteers for their sharp-shooting at the range. The firing was beset with...
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Alton Street
Maori heritageThe earliest human footprints across the Mahitahi floodplain, upon which Nelson City now sits, belong to the tangata whenua and manawhenua tribes of Whakatu. What is now Alton Street was...
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Matthew Campbell 1815-1883
Matthew Campbell is typical of many of the early Nelson immigrants. He flourished in the egalitarian colonial society he settled in, and was instrumental in laying the foundation of a national...
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Ben Crisp and the Band of Hope
Ben Crisp was a reformed drunkard who took an abstinence pledge in 1843, inspired by the sermons of teetotaller and Temperance Society leader Alfred Saunders.He was born in London, England, probably on...
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Thomas Nelson Neal
Thomas Nelson Neal was born in Nelson, New Zealand on the 29th of November, 1842 to William and Amelia Neal (nee Matthews). William had came out on the ship Will Watch to survey for a new settlement...
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Early Nelson College
Fire, earthquake and a Nobel laureateNelson College was established in 1856 with high hopes that Nelson would become the ‘Eton of the South’.Nelson College. Principal's Residence on the left. Copy of...
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Settlement in Stoke
Stoke was once a swampy area with numerous small streams. When Maori arrived in this area, it was a wetland with numerous streams draining water from the hills to the sea. Covered with flax and raupo...
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