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• Elliott Street heritage precinct

  Elliott Street in Nelson is one of the earliest, and most complete examples, of state housing in New Zealand.  The special heritage area includes homes that date from the 1860s...

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• Colonial furniture makers in Nelson

  Furniture for a colonial life The colonial settlement of Nelson was among the first in New Zealand to establish a furniture making industry and examples of colonial furniture from...

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• Picton Bloaters

  Sardines, pilchards, herring – the famous ‘Picton Bloaters’ were variously called all of these names. From earliest settlement there were huge seasonal shoals of them in Queen Charlotte Sound,...

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• Shipping and trade on the Opawa River

  At one time, Picton was described as Marlborough's front door and the Opawa River as the tradesmen's entrance, but in the early days of European settlement, river trade...

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• Nelson Street Names

  When the first settlers arrived in Nelson in 1841 under theWakefield Company settlement plan[new-zealand-company/], the first committee they set up was the street naming committee. Unfortunately it proved a...

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