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These are your stories. You are welcome to submit your own story for publication on this site. All stories will be subject to review by an editorial group.

Stories from schools - these stories have been contributed by school students:

• Father Antoine Marie Garin
• Edwin Fox
• Hampden Street School
• Nelson School of Music - the War Years
• Founders Park
• Appleby School
• Vinings in the Motor Industry
• Athletics at Trafalgar Park
• Nelson's Queen's Gardens
• Fairfield House
• Nelson Suter Art Society
• New Zealand's first rugby club
• Ernest Rutherford's early life
• Nelson's early settlers
• The first Sharland

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Stories

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1. Fairfield House
   Fairfield House, built by Arthur Atkinson in 1883, was rescued from demolition by a dedicated group of Nelson people read more
2. Awatere Road Rail Bridge
   For over 100 years the bridge at Seddon over the Awatere River has carried road and rail traffic, a unique link on State Highway One. read more
3. Wairau Bar
   The Wairau Bar is one of New Zealand's most significant archaeological sites, and one of great cultural significance for Maori. read more
4. Mary Bisley
   Mary emigrated to New Zealand with her parents on board the St Pauli, arriving in 1843. read more
5. School Daze!
   One woman's experience of Nelson education in the late 1930's. read more
6. Albert Charles Jennings (1879-1917)
   Albert was a Nelson boy who fought in both the Boer War and in World War I. He died at Messines. read more
7. Anzac Old boys - World War II
   Three of the young men from Nelson College who lost their lives in World War II, as recorded in the Nelsonian, the Nelson College Magazine. read more
8. Anzac Old Boys - Boer War
   Three young Nelson men who died in the Boer War. read more
9. Anzac Old Boys - World War I
   Three of the young men of Nelson who died in World War I. read more
10. Edwin Hare Dashwood
    Edwin Hare Dashwood was an agricultural labourer, explorer and English Baronet. read more