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• Ngawhatu Hospital

  *Ngawhatu Hospital… Home or nightmare?* Ngawhatu Valley was the site of an orphanage, industrial school, and later a psychiatric hospital[sitetree_link,id=983]. St Mary's Orphanage operated from 1886-1919. Ngawhatu Psychiatric Hospital operated from...

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• Bartlett's Creek Cottage

  Cob homes were a popular building type in the greater Marlborough area with well preserved examples such as Riverlands Cob Cottage[https://www.marlboroughmuseum.org.nz/home/about/cob-cottage] and the Molesworth[sitetree_link,id=536] homestead. Tucked neatly away up the North-bank...

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• Nellie Nightingale

  Ellen, later known as Nellie, was born in Auckland on the 24th February 1876.  She was the daughter of Thomas and Alice Jones. She was 32 when she...

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• Joy Cowley

  Joy Cowley with cod. c.2000. Picture from http://www.joycowley.com/Click image to enlarge It's raining in the Marlborough Sounds after weeks of hot dry weather and New Zealand's favourite grandma of children's...

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• Nelson Street Names

  When the first settlers arrived in Nelson in 1841 under the Wakefield Company settlement plan, the first committee they set up was the street naming committee. Unfortunately it proved...

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