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• Endeavour Inlet and the Antimony Mine

  Endeavour Inlet was so named by Captain James Cook[ship-cove-and-captain-cook/] after his ship Endeavour, which anchored in Queen Charlotte Sound in 1770.  At the time this, and other bays near...

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• HMS New Zealand visits Picton

  In 1913, Picton was visited by the largest warship that had ever come to New Zealand, the HMS New Zealand[http://navymuseum.co.nz/worldwar1/ships/hms-new-zealand/]. HMS New Zealand visits Picton HMS New Zealand visits Picton....

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• James Wynen

  *Wild frontier for Blenheim’s first storekeeper* How James Wynen ended up in a Nelson hotel where he died in 1866 is a mystery.1 But the story of the...

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• Buzz Falconer and the Talisman

  Nelson has lost most of its links with the wooden hulled scows that used to take produce around the bay and across the strait to Wellington. While the...

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• Thomas and Sarah Roil

  Thomas and Sarah Roil and five of their children from Alton, Hampshire emigrated to New Zealand on the Bolton, with 350 passengers, arriving in Nelson 15 March 1842....

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