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• Nelson's WWI Red Cross Flag

  At 2.5m long and almost 1.5m high, an enormous flag - roughly the size of a king-sized sheet – was created during WWI to raise money for Nelson...

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• Robert Tod of Todds Valley

  Merchant, shipbroker and commission agent, Robert Tod, left his home in Glasgow in the 1820s and lived in Egypt prior to coming to New Zealand. He arrived in...

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• La Bella Vita - Italians in Nelson

  The first Italians came to the top of the South Island for different reasons, with the majority escaping poverty and a lack of opportunity in their homeland. One of...

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• 224 Collingwood Street

  Stanton Cottage, 224 Collingwood Street is an Italianate villa, built approximately 1865. About the area The streets around Brougham Street and Upper Collingwood Street are often known as Nelson's Dress Circle[sitetree_link,id=374], due to their...

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• Lydia Higgs, signatory

  In 1893 when she signed the petition Lydia Higgs (1854 - 1943), nee Holtham was 39 years old. She was the second wife of Caleb Higgs, whom she...

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