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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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• School Bugs

  Regular users of the Nelson Railway line (closed since the 1950's) included Nelson secondary school students from Stoke, Richmond and the countryside. They were called “school bugs”, named for their on-board...

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• Protest at Kiwi Station 1955

  A group of Nelson women made quite a stir when they staged a protest against the closure of the Nelson Railway line at Kiwi Station in 1955. ...

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• Pioneers Park

  Opened officially as Pioneers Park in 1929, the name unofficially dropped the 's' in the mid-1930s and today is known by both names. Over the decades the Park...

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• Lands and Survey Department in Blenheim

  I joined the Public Service in 1953, becoming a clerk in the Lands & Survey Department. The offices were on the upper floor of the old Post Office...

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