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• Dr. Hubert Oscar Washbourn

  Dr Washbourn and the Washbourn Memorial Gates Dr Hubert Oscar Washbourn, known by family as Pete, arrived in Richmond in 1919 and during this year he bought Hillcrest Private...

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• Apple Day

  Supporting our Boys During World War 1, the good folk of Nelson came up with many ideas related to something they did well - growing things - to raise...

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• John Sylvanus Cotterell

  Surveyor, settler, explorer If John Cotterell had not been killed, in the Wairau Affray,  at the tender age of 23, it is likely he would have become a person...

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• Pakohe - Argillite

  Known to Māori as pakohe, and to geologists as metamorphosed indurated mudstone, argillite is particularly associated with the Nelson-Marlborough region in New Zealand. It is found on Rangitoto (D'Urville Island), along the...

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• Samuels Rose Garden

  The garden at Broadgreen House, Stoke    There’s a story behind every name. This one could be called ‘Pie cart helps deliver roses’, but in a roundabout way. Stephen James...

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