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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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• Broadgreen House

  English settler Edmund Buxton, with his wife and family of six daughters, commissioned architect William Beatson and builder Mr Holland to create their home. It was completed about 1855,...

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• Seymour Square

  Blenheim's Seymour Square was, officially, named after Henry Seymour who, with his son-in-law Alfred Fell, owned the land on which The Beaver[blenheim-or-the-beaver/] (Blenheim) was built. It is also said...

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• Nelson Golf Club

  "Golf is a game in which able bodied men and women, otherwise sane, take savage swipes with a queer blunt instrument at an inoffensive little ball then walk...

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• Percy Adams and his gates

  Percy Adams Memorial Gates, Wakapuaka Cemetery Percy Bolland Adams was born in Marlborough on 5 March 1854.  His fatherWilliam Adams[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc05Cycl-t1-body1-d2-d2-d2.html], owner of Langley Dale[http://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/1479]1 station, was a Lawyer, was briefly the Marlborough...

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