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• Roding Valley waterworks

  Since its official opening on the 30th October 1941, the Roding waterworks scheme has supplied water to both Nelson City and Richmond. The scheme consists of a low...

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• How Brightwater got its name

  "Bright water for me" According to some sources, Brightwater was named after the bright, clear waters of the Wairoa River. In part this may be true, but it seems...

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• Thomas and Sarah Roil

  Thomas and Sarah Roil and five of their children from Alton, Hampshire emigrated to New Zealand on the Bolton, with 350 passengers, arriving in Nelson 15 March 1842....

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• George Cannon McMurtry

  *George **(Randall) **Cannon McMurtry and Templemore Homestead* George was  born in 1918 in Templemore Homestead, which still stands today on 126 Salisbury Road, Richmond.  His grandfather, of Irish descent, came to Nelson in...

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• Mary Lafrentz

  1992-1995 Tasman District Councillor   Mary Lafrentz Mary Lafrentz 22 March 1994. Nelson Provincial Museum, Nelson Mail Collection: C28826. I was approached by the late Elaine Taylor, a Waimea County Councillor and...

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