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• Albert Rainbow Tuffnell

  One of Richmond's early entrepreneurs, Albert Tuffnell played an important role in both business and local government in the Richmond borough. Albert-Rainbow-Tuffnell.jpg Albert Rainbow Tuffnell (Richmond Borough Council) Click image...

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• Early prominent Marlburians

  Two doctors and a shopkeeper were key figures in turning Blenheim from a settlement notorious for a spirit of lawlessness  into a bustling market town.1 Dr Stephen Lunn Muller (1814...

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• Waimea Plains

  From Grain and Cows... to Vegetables and Wine Over the years land use on the Waimea Plains has changed to meet changing markets and lifestyles. In the early...

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• D'Urville's Tasman Bay Odyssey

  On a windless day, the view of Tasman Bay from the ridge leading to French Pass seems enchanting but harmless. The battalions of rocks fringing the southern tip...

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• Wakamarina Gold

  "In the month of April, 1864, Nelson was aroused from the most depressed commercial state....to the glittering prospects of a well-paying goldfield...situated in the Province of Marlborough," reported Lucas's...

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