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• Marlborough's Flax Industry

  Marlborough had perfect growing conditions and was noted for the excellent quality of its flax.1  Native flax (Harakeke/Phormium tenax) grew in swampy land and on the low foothills and,...

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• Nelson's early settlement

  Nelson's early history is a fascinating one, filled with many tales of hardship endured by the early European settlers, who left their homes in England in search of...

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• Betsy Walter/Betsy Eyre and the Park named after her

  Nelson City Councillor 1956-1962 ; 1965-1976 Deputy Mayor 1959-1962, 1965-1971 In 1956, twelve years after Laura Ingram[sitetree_link,id=822] was elected to the Motueka Borough Council, Betsy Walter (later Eyre) became Nelson's first...

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• Nelson Golf Club

  "Golf is a game in which able bodied men and women, otherwise sane, take savage swipes with a queer blunt instrument at an inoffensive little ball then walk...

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• Marsden House

  Marsden House was built on Nile Street East in 1923. The land on which it sits has a longer history. The section, Town Acre 438, was purchased on...

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