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Joseph Holland
Joseph Henry Holland (1851-1925) was a brewer and winemaker, operating on Waimea Road in Bishopdale, Nelson. This business was initially established by Mr. J. Chapman, and taken over by...
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Early newspapers in Nelson
Charles Elliott was quite unsuspecting when a friend of his approached him back in 1842, telling him of the "English Country Town"1 in a little place called New...
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Auckland Point School
*Auckland Point School Through the Decades 1927 - 2011* Auckland Point School was once one of the largest schools in Nelson, opening in 1927 with a roll call...
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Early Renwick
*Scottish town on the Wairau Plain * Scotsman, Dr Thomas Renwick, was the ship's surgeon on the Thomas Harrison, which arrived in Nelson in 1842. He bought Dumgree in the Awatere in 1848,...
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Millers Acre
Millers Acre, sits beside the Maitai River[maitai-valley/] and is in the heart of, what is now, Nelson City. It has been put to a number of uses over the...
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