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• The Town that Wilkes Built and a Lucky Escape from Friendly Fire

  *Richmond - the town that Wilkes Built* The firm of W.E Wilkes is synonymous with house building in Richmond. The company built many of the major buildings in Richmond...

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• Croucher's Flour Mill and Bakehouse

  In 1873 the view across Queen Street was very different from what you see today. A large flour mill stood where the Richmond Mall is now. In front...

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• Mathilde (Tillie) Charlton ONZM

  Golden Bay County Councillor  1974-1980 Tillie Charlton Tillie Charlton, 1977. Nelson Provincial Museum, Geoffrey C Wood Collection: GCW3 3910_fr12 German-born Mathilde (Tillie) Charlton spent much of her life in service to...

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• Enga Washbourn

  At the Bay  Enga Washbourn's heart was in Golden Bay. "She absolutely loved it," her son Jeremy Goulter says. Long treasured family connections with the bay inspired her to...

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• Nelson and Women’s Suffrage

  The Women’s Suffrage Petition of 1893, which was a major contributor to the success of the Electoral Act in that same year, giving women the right to vote,...

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