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• Elizabeth Lissaman, potter

  Elizabeth Hazel Lissaman was born in Blenheim on 11 October 1901, the second of six children of Helen Eva Bligh and her husband, Henri Lissaman, a sheep farmer. She...

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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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• Alton Street

  Māori heritage The earliest human footprints across the Mahitahi floodplain, upon which Nelson City now sits, belong to the tangata whenua  and manawhenua tribes of Whakatū. What is now Alton Street...

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• Walter and Elizabeth Blommaart

  *Walter Joseph and Elizabeth Ella Blommaart nee Thomas* Seaview Cemetery, Block 30, Plot 594 Walter Blommaart was the child of Joseph and Clara, nee Ashby, who married in 1878.1...

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• The Rise of the Motor Vehicle in Richmond

  In 1923, John Warring (known as Jack) opened a bicycle shop near Queen Street’s intersection with Gladstone Road. Just three years later the growing popularity of motor vehicles led...

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