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• Ralph Watson and the Everetts of Nelson

  At Home and Away during World War I: A Tale of Two Families Albert Edward (Bert) Everett was born in Nelson in 1857 and was the fifth of...

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• Anchor Foundry

  *The Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company* Port Nelson. Nelson Provincial Museum, F N Jones Collection: 309919[assets/Your_stories/port-nelson-1.jpg]Port Nelson. Nelson Provincial Museum, F N Jones Collection: 309919 [with Anchor Foundry buildings] Click image...

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• Roy Sowman's Lodge

  In the early 1950s, Roy Sowman built a modest edifice on the edge of Neiman Creek on the Waimea estuary.  What started out as a boatshed, from which...

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• Pearl Creek

  Pearl Creek is a rare and precious wetland, which was once found right around the Waimea Inlet; habitats like this have been lost over the years to grazing,...

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• St John Ambulance Nelson 1932 -1945

  The exact date when the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem first came into being is unknown, although it was about 1070, when a hospice...

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