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• James Marsden and his Isel Farm

  At the age of 34 years, James Marsden inherited Isel estate[nelson-isel-house/], a 930-acre property laid out by his father, Thomas Marsden, who died in a carriage accident in 1876. ...

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• Nelson's power struggle

  Electricity was not commonly used in New Zealand until late in the 19th Century, with some cities and towns using electricity for street lighting and trams from 1888....

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• Upstairs Downstairs

  Broadgreen’s Domestic and Ground staff of the 1860s As was befitting an affluent middle-class family such as the Buxtons[sitetree_link,id=535] of Broadgreen House[sitetree_link,id=348] in Stoke, paid staff looked after domestic and...

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• Frederick Trolove

  Trolove of the Clarence Frederick Trolove  (1831-1880) was an early European settler who established Woodbank Run, located south of the Clarence River. Most of what is known about Trolove,...

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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...

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