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• Friends of the Nelson Library Inc

  When Nola Leov first moved to Nelson in the late 1980s, the library[nelson-public-libraries/] was in a sad state. A new library building was desperately needed. Councillor Elma Turner[elma-turner/]’s decades of effort were finally...

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• The Renwick family

  A slice of early colonial life The Marlborough Museum Archives collection has digitised hundreds of letters donated by Annie Ball, which relate to the life of Dr Thomas Renwick’s[sitetree_link,id=763] family. Renwick...

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• Shelbourne Street Gaol

  Unwanted, Unneeded, Unremembered: The Life of the Nelson Gaol 1850-1898 The Nelson Gaol built in Shelbourne Street, in 1850, is little known or remembered as part of modern day...

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• New Zealand’s first game of rugby

  The crowd of Nelsonians gathered at The Botanics one May day in 1870 had no idea that they were witnessing the birth of a New Zealand tradition, rugby.....  ...

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• Nelson’s Early Churches

  The first settlers to Nelson brought with them a variety of religious beliefs and backgrounds. The system of hierarchy and emphasis on religion in immigrants' homelands were important, and...

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