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• Skateboarding in Nelson

  Skate Boarding comes to New Zealand When Surfers made boards with wheels so they could ‘sidewalk surf’ in the USA in the 1950s, a new sport called skate boarding was...

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• Cricket in the Colonies

  International cricket came to Nelson on January 4, 2014, when the Black Caps took on the West Indies in a one-day international - New Zealand winning by 58...

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• The Wreck of the Lastingham 1884

  Being a country surrounded by the ocean New Zealand has experienced hundreds of shipwrecks claiming tremendous amounts of lives. Cook Strait is no exception to other stretches of our...

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• Sunnyside and the Fells

  The house called Sunnyside, located in Nelson's "dress circle", and completed in 1854, was built for Alfred Fell, a prominent, mid-19th century Nelson citizen. The house forms the basis...

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• Ngawhatu Hospital

  *Ngawhatu Hospital… Home or nightmare?* Ngawhatu Valley was the site of an orphanage, industrial school, and later a psychiatric hospital[sitetree_link,id=983]. St Mary's Orphanage operated from 1886-1919. Ngawhatu Psychiatric Hospital operated from...

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