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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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• Barbers Saloon

  The barber's saloon recreated at Founders Heritage Park contains a selection of items used for haircutting and shaving, and smoking memorabilia from Nelson's golden age of tobacco growing. ...

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• The Anchor Inn

  The original Anchor Inn building was built in 1856 on Haven Road near Auckland Point. Prior to the land reclamations of the 1950s, Haven Road was a narrow,...

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