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• Barbers Saloon

  The barber's saloon, recreated at Founders Heritage Park, contains a selection of items used for haircutting and shaving, and smoking memorabilia from Nelson's golden age of tobacco growing. Tobacconist and...

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• The Anchor Inn

  The original Anchor Inn building was built in 1856 on Haven Road[haven-road-and-fountain-place/] near Auckland Point[auckland-point-market/]. Prior to the land reclamations of the 1950s, Haven Road was a narrow, waterside thoroughfare...

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• Bank of New South Wales

  Founders Heritage Park contains a replica (pictured here) of the first Bank of New South Wales that was built in Nelson, which opened on February 1st 1862. Nelson was...

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• Broadgreen House

  English settler Edmund Buxton, with his wife and family of six daughters, commissioned architect William Beatson and builder Mr Holland to create their home. It was completed about 1855,...

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• The Nelson Cottage Hospital

  Early Nelson had no shortage of medical men, but providing medical buildings was much more difficult. The first hospital was a lean-to added to the side of the...

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