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• Memories of Port Nelson

  As a young lad in the 1930's, fishing off the wharves was a much enjoyed pastime. The two Nelson ferries were coal burners. The coal hulks was tied...

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• Memories of the Mamaku

  I worked as a deckhand on the Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company’s coaster Mamaku from 1955 to 1957, and during those years I took many photos of the...

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• The Brownlees enterprise

  William Brownlee, and later his son John's, sawmilling enterprise was far more of a struggle than most reports suggest. The Brownlee family, with a number of close relatives, who...

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• Wreck of the City of Newcastle

  City of Newcastle was a three-masted barque, 133 feet long and, at the time of her wreck, 39 years old.  A frequent traveller between New South Wales and...

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• 21 Fountain Place

  Beachville, 21 Fountain Place, is a cottage with a Category B Heritage listing[https://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/4902]. It was built in approximately 1862 and forms part of the Fountain Place Heritage Precinct. About the area For...

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