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Friends of the Nelson Library Inc
When Nola Leov first moved to Nelson in the late 1980s, the library was in a sad state. A new library building was desperately needed. Councillor Elma Turner’s decades of effort were finally paying...
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Nelson Golf Club
Golf is a game in which able bodied men and women otherwise sane take savage swipes with a queer blunt instrument at an inoffensive little ball then walk miles looking for it.""1 During 1897, Nelson...
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The Bishop Suter Art Gallery
The death of a bishop, and the determination of his widow to found a gallery in his name for the people of Nelson, led to the establishment of one of New Zealand's oldest art galleries, the Bishop...
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Maternity care in Nelson - Te Rangi
Te Rangi HospitalTe Rangi Hospital, where hundreds of Nelsonians drew their first breath, opened in 1915. The hospital was located on Collingwood Street, on the block between New and Halifax Streets,...
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Wairau Hospital
Caring for the Marlborough communityIn 1865, Marlborough’s first hospital was opened in Picton, the provincial capital of the district. Within ten years it was noted that half of the patients admitted...
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Dr. Hubert Oscar Washbourn
Dr Washbourn and the Washbourn Memorial GatesDr Hubert Oscar Washbourn, known by family as Pete, arrived in Richmond in 1919 and during this year he bought Hillcrest Private Hospital. It was here that...
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Farm Settlements for Returned Soldiers
During World War I (1914-1918) the NZ government decreed that soldiers returning from overseas service would be given the opportunity to settle on farms of their own, specially purchased and developed...
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Ivy Louisa Millin 1908-1992
Memories of Ivy Louisa Millin (nee Stone) as told to her daughter, Clarice RackleyIvy was born in 1908 and died in 1992. This is her story:Ivy Stone at the Annesbrook hopgardensClick image to enlargeI...
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Pioneers Park
Opened officially as Pioneers Park in 1929, the name unofficially dropped the 's' in the mid 1930s and today is known by both names. Over the decades the Park has been used for a variety of local...
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Renwick House
Renwick House was originally called Newstead, and was the home of Sir David Monro from 1864. Monro was an active member of the Nelson Institute as well as a doctor, famous botanist and politician....
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Appo Hocton
Jumped ship to become first Chinese Immigrant to New Zealand It was an unconventional arrival for New Zealand's first Chinese immigrant in 1842. Wong Ah Poo Hoc Ting, approx.1820-1920, and who became...
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Dr Thomas Renwick
A busy settler in early Marlborough and NelsonDr Thomas Renwick was born in Dumfries, Scotland in 1818, trained as a doctor and quickly rose through the ranks of the Royal Navy as a ships’ doctor. On...
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The Renwick family
A slice of lifeThe Marlborough Museum Archives collection has digitised hundreds of letters donated by Annie Ball, which relate to the life of Dr Thomas Renwick’s family.Renwick family group....
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Life on the Fault Lines
Marlborough's East Coast earthquakesMarlborough’s East Coast is cross hatched with fault lines so the large earthquakes of 2013 and 2016 should not have been surprising, although it is thought the 7.8...
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The Redwood Family
Henry Redwood and early settlementThe Redwood family is remembered through place names in Nelson, Marlborough, and throughout New Zealand.It all began with Henry Redwood and his wife Mary (Gilbert),...
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Constantine and Fanny Dillon
Constantine Dillon (1813-1853) and Fanny Dillon (died 1896)Constance Dillon The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tyree Collection, T-69659-3 Click to enlargeThe Honourable Constantine Dillon, a younger son of...
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Robinson Bros of Stoke
Robinson Bros in Main Road Stoke was originally an export orchard set up in 1910 by Thomas Robinson. Thomas was born in Clough, Northern Ireland in 1845 and sailed to New Zealand in 1873. He spent...
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Maori and Christianity
Maori had a complex system of faith and worship, not unlike Greek, Roman and Jewish traditions. Io, the Creator, was ‘... a primary core, heart, essence, who existed in space. He had no parents and was...
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Bishopdale College
A unique and inspirational institution, Bishopdale Theological College is the only college of its kind to ever exist in provincial New Zealand. Its evangelical convictions have remained true and it has...
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Anchor Foundry
The Anchor Shipping and Foundry CompanyPort Nelson. Nelson Provincial Museum, F N Jones Collection: 309919 [with Anchor Foundry buildings]Click image to enlargeThe Anchor Foundry operated from 1866 to...
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