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• Upstairs Downstairs

  Broadgreen’s Domestic and Ground staff of the 1860s As was befitting an affluent middle-class family such as the Buxtons[sitetree_link,id=535] of Broadgreen House[sitetree_link,id=348] in Stoke, paid staff looked after domestic and...

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• William Moore. Nelson First Public School Teacher

  Life was pleasant for the local school master of Tannadice in the quiet countryside around Forfarshire, Scotland in 1840. William Moore and his wife Isobel lived in a...

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• John Waring Saxton

  Diarist and settler John Saxton, his wife Priscilla, five children and other family members (including his brother the Rev. Charles Saxton) arrived in Nelson Haven on the Clifford on 11...

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• Nelson's Queens Gardens

  Nelson's Queens Gardens have been a prominent feature in Nelson City for over a century. The development of the beautiful Victorian styled gardens first began on the 22nd of...

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• The Nightingale Library Memorial

  The first library in Tāhunanui was housed in a cupboard at the back of the Town Hall  when Tāhunanui was administered by a Town Board. By the 1930's...

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