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• People

  Stories about the people who have played a significant, or interesting, role in the history and life of the top of the South Island of New Zealand. See related stories...

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• The Scow Echo

  A.S. Echo, now permanently ‘on the hard’ on Picton foreshore, was built from kauri in 1905 at Te Kopuru near Dargaville by William Brown & Sons (William Brown...

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• Founders Park

  Founders Park: Nelson's Secret Village  On March 1st, 1986, hundreds of Nelsonians gathered along Atawhai Drive to pay witness to the opening of Founders Park. Waiting outside the large...

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• Colonial Summers

  Colonial Summers While family and friends back ‘home' spent the Christmas/New Year period engaged in traditional cold weather activities, Nelson's earliest European settlers found the colonial holiday period to be...

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• William Stud Bovey

  William Stud Bovey, 1872-1917, was one of the eight Stoke men who died in World War One. He is commemorated on the Stoke Memorial Gates. William Stud Bovey....

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