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• A Woman of the Wairau

  When young Stella Maxted arrived in the Wairau Valley from Blenheim, she did not know that she was to become part of a valley dynasty and farm there...

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• Young Eric Rennell

  Joseph (Teddy) and Elizabeth Rennell lived in the Wairau Valley for most of their married lives. Teddy was a farmer and musterer who had come over to Marlborough...

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• Ada Redwood, Councillor

  Ada McDonald, 1867-1943,  was a widow in 1908 when she married Frederick Redwood[sitetree_link,id=748], gentleman sheep farmer of Spring Creek. They were together until his death in 1919. Ada Redwood Ada Redwood....

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• Shipping and trade on the Ōpaoa River

  At one time, Picton was described as Marlborough's front door and the Ōpaoa/Opawa River as the tradesmen's entrance, but in the early days of European settlement, river trade was...

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• Wairau Hospital

  Caring for the Marlborough community In 1865, Marlborough’s first hospital was opened in Picton, the provincial capital of the district. Within ten years it was noted that half of...

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