Search Results

You searched for Fairfield House

All words containing three letters or less are ignored

• Baton Valley Gold

  *Good as Gold: The Baton* The remote Baton, at the base of Mount Arthur[mount-arthur/] (Tu ao Wharepapa), once had two hotels, a shop, Post Office and a racecourse. It is thought the...

  Read more about "Baton Valley Gold"...
  
  
• Dun Mountain Railway

  The Dun Mountain Railway was officially opened amidst great fanfare on Monday 3 February, 1862. From the port, across the city, the horse-drawn tramway then climbed from Brook Street...

  Read more about "Dun Mountain Railway (1862-1907)"...
  
  
• The Nelson Club

  The Nelson Club, 61-65 Selwyn Place, is a Gothic Victorian purpose-built clubhouse,  built approximately 1903. It has a Category 2 Heritage listing. The Nelson Cub was formed in 1874...

  Read more about "The Nelson Club"...
  
  
• Cawthron Institute

  It was a love of science and the foresight of a Nelson philanthropist, Thomas Cawthron, that led to the establishment of an institute that is now a world...

  Read more about "The Philanthropist and the Cawthron Institute"...
  
  
• Samuel Kirkpatrick and the Canning Factory

  Samuel Kirkpatrick (1854-1925) grew up in Ireland, was educated in Liverpool and emigrated to California, where he worked in the wholesale tea business and fruit processing factories. In January...

  Read more about "Samuel Kirkpatrick and the Canning Factory"...