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• Jane Hunter, viticulturist

  “Hunter’s support many local community activities because it is important not only to foster relationships but add something back to the community which has given us credibility and support.” hunter Jane...

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• Jane Watson, dressmaker

  Jane Watson, a dressmaker, first appears in the Marlborough Express advertising for two apprentices in 1876. At this stage she is based on the corner of Auckland and...

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• Elizabeth Lissaman, potter

  Elizabeth Hazel Lissaman was born in Blenheim on 11 October 1901, the second of six children of Helen Eva Bligh and her husband, Henri Lissaman, a sheep farmer. She...

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• Sybil Lupp, racing driver

  Sybil (or Sibyl as is shown on the birth registrar) was born in Hawke's Bay in 1916. In the early 1920s, her family moved back to Blenheim, where...

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• Annie Dolly Anituhia MacDonald Neame, weaver

  Annie (Dolly) Anituhia MacDonald Neame (1916– 1995) "One day while sitting alone a thought came to me - I'd just love to make a feather cloak. Well, after...

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