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• Wreck of the Queen Bee

  The Queen Bee was a wooden barque of between 700 and 800 tons. A fine, roomy ship, she was one of the earliest vessels to bring immigrants to...

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• Ngawhatu Hospital, Orphanage and Valley

  *The Orphanage Era of Ngawhatu Valley* Orphanage stream in in Stoke takes its name from a Roman Catholic home for boys which was once sited in the Ngawhatu Valley.  Commonly called...

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• Murchison and the Buller or Kawatiri

  The story of Murchison is inextricably entwined with that of the Kawatiri or Buller River and its tributaries.  The mighty awa or river begins its 177 km journey...

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• Lyell

  *The highs and lows of goldmining* Graveyards have an international reputation for being 'spooky', but when you are standing in the graveyard of a deceased town, 'spooky' takes on...

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• Seymour Square

  Blenheim's Seymour Square was, officially, named after Henry Seymour who, with his son-in-law Alfred Fell, owned the land on which The Beaver[blenheim-or-the-beaver/] (Blenheim) was built. It is also said...

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