Gold in a Tin Dish: The Search for Gold in Marlborough & Eastern Nelson: Vol.2 The History of the Eastern Marlborough Goldfields by Mike Johnston
80.00 NZD
Category: Nelson
The History of the Eastern Marlborough Goldfields Historian and geologist Mike Johnston completes the account of the region's goldmining history that he began in Volume One with the Wakamarina. He describes the tantalising nature of Eastern Marlborough gold and the dogged attempts to extract it, despite ...Show more
Nelson Pine The Story
45.00 NZD
Category: Nelson
Nelson Pine Industries was established in 1984, as a manufacturing facility to add value to the Nelson region’s renewable resource of Pinus radiata plantation forests. Production of Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF) started in 1986, with a second line commissioned in 1991. The third line, commissioned in ...Show more
Ferntown to Farewell Spit by Carol Dawber & Cheryl Win
60.00 NZD
Category: Nelson
The fourth in a series of Golden Bay photo histories. 160 full-page black and white photographs from museums and private albums cover the area north of Collingwood, including coalmining, farming, shipping, schools and social history from the 1880's to the 1960's.
Old Nelson : A postcard history, 1900-1940 by Rob Packer and Barney Brewster
50.00 NZD
Category: Nelson
This thoroughly interesting slice of Nelson region history is drawn from an extensive private collection. The images include many street scenes and town vistas, as well as themes such as public occasions, unfortunate events, sport and recreation, transport, trade and commerce, education and military. T ...Show more
Gold in a Tin Dish: The Search for Gold in Marlborough & Eastern Nelson Vol.1 The History of the Wakamarina Goldfield by Mike Johnston
90.00 NZD
Category: Nelson | Reading Level: very good
The History of the Wakamarina Goldfield In a narrow valley about midway between the towns of Nelson and Blenheim, New Zealand, gold was found in 1864 by settlers prospecting the gravel bar at Wilson's Beach, on the Wakamarina River. Canvas towns sprang up along the valley, populated with goldminers and ...Show more
The Exiles of Asbestos Cottage by Jim Henderson
29.00 NZD
Category: Nelson
This is a local reprint of Jim Henderson's famous book relating the romantic story of "the exiles of Asbestos Cottage, runaway lovers Henry and Ann Chaffey.
Between the Ports: Collingwood to Waitapu by Carol Dawber & Cheryl Win
60.00 NZD
Category: Nelson
A photographic history of Golden Bay. Includes full page photos with captions. Contents include: Collingwood;Parapara; Onekaka; Puramahoi; Waitapu.
Motueka Wharf - 100 years by Carol Dawber
45.00 NZD
Category: Nelson
The waterside town of Motueka has always been heavily dependent on its port. Over the years passenger services have operated between Riwaka, Motueka and Nelson, fishing fleets have worked the tides, fertiliser has come in shiploads and hops, tobacco, timber and livestock have gone out over the wharf. In ...Show more
The Heaphy Track by Chris Petyt
42.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
The Heaphy Track has a long and rich history that stretches back to pre-European times. Archaeological evidence from the mouth of the Heaphy River indicates that Maori may have been present from the late 1400s during what is referred to as the Moa-hunter period, but perhaps not continuously. A route whi ...Show more
Driven by the Wind - The Memoir of Captain Henry Rose by Karen Stade
50.00 NZD
Category: Nautical
...Christmas Day 1847 we were in a gale of a wind in the Bay of Biscay, the ship being deeply laden made rather bad weather of it. One of the boats was struck by a heavy sea and smashed and the First Mate had his leg broken. The Cook... told me that I would never see my mother again... So began the adve ...Show more
Waitapu to Waitui: A Journey Up the Takaka Valley by Carol Dawber
62.00 NZD
Category: Nelson
This Golden Bay photo-history, the fourth to be published by River Press for the Bainham Reunion Committee, is a 192-page book of black and white photographs covering the Takaka Valley from Waitapu and Waikoropupu to Upper Takaka and Waitui. Shipping, sawmilling, farming and marble quarries are featured ...Show more
Nelson Historical Society Journal Vol 9 No. 3 - 2023 by Nelson Historical Society
25.00 NZD
Category: Nelson