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• Lily Robertson and the Nelson Lighthouse

  My Life by Lily Robertson (1878-1956) Nelson Lighthouse  Excerpt from the Lighthouse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from Lily's diary. Click image to enlarge My birthplace was at the home of...

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• Hampden Street School

  Hampden Street School 1868 - 2009: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same   Walking around Hampden Street School today, it is hard to imagine what...

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• Nelson School of Music

  1915, war is raging in Europe. Julius Bernhardt Lemmer principal of the Nelson School of Music (NSOM), temporarily on leave returns from his year away studying in London....

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• People

  Stories about the people who have played a significant, or interesting, role in the history and life of the top of the South Island of New Zealand. See related stories...

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• The Scow Echo

  A.S. Echo, now permanently ‘on the hard’ on Picton foreshore, was built from kauri in 1905 at Te Kopuru near Dargaville by William Brown & Sons (William Brown...

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