The Story of Nelson Aviation by Richard Waugh & Graeme McConnell

$40.00 NZD

Category: Aviation

Aviation's influenece on Nelson has been profound. With challenging road access, no rail link and the barrier of Cook Strait, Nelson had the reputation of being a 'sleepy hollow'. It was isolated and in some way still is, yet has never been the same since the first aircraft visit in 1921. After aero clu b beginnings, a pioneering scheduled airline was established at the Stoke Airfield in 1935. The opening of Nelson's new airport at Tahunanui in 1938, close to the city centre, was a key milestone for the region's social, economic and tourism future. The airport led to a wartime air force station and a growing post-war airline scene. It became the main commercial aviation centre for the upper South Island, including helicopter work. Illustrated by many rare photographs, this book tells the story of Nelson aviation - its aircraft, personalities, innovations and events - and how it helped develop the whole sunny province. Nelson Airport serves more than 750,000 passengers annually, is the hub for the country's largest regional airline and is the fourth busiest airport for scheduled flights in New Zealand. ...Show more

Meet You at the Church Steps: A Social History of a Nelson Landmark by Karen Stade

$42.00 NZD

Category: Nelson

Meet You At The Church Steps captures the unfolding social tapestry that has played out on Church Hill and its historic steps since the arrival in November 1841 of the New Zealand Company to establish the colony of Nelson. Published to mark the 2013 centennial of the Cawthron Steps, the ornate granite s tairway gifted to the city by philanthropist Thomas Cawthron in 1913, the book also covers the history of the original flight of wooden steps built on Church Hill in 1858. As a landmark of Nelson City and a natural rendezvous point, the Church Steps have borne witness to gatherings of celebration, thanksgiving and commemoration. They have hosted generations of royalty and other VIPs and revelled in the pomp and circumstance of military and civic pageantry. It was on the steps that Nelson farewelled soldiers on their way to war and where it welcomed some of those men home again. They have long been the platform for protest and public demonstration, while also a favourite spot to sit and take in city views. The rich photographic collections of the Nelson Provincial Museum, the Nelson Mail and private collectors, are the core of the book, partnered with newspaper reportage of the events which have played out with the steps as their backdrop. The call "I'll meet you at the Church Steps" continues to echo across generations. ...Show more

Rolling Stones: Nelson's Boulder Bank - Its Place in Our History and Hearts by Karen Warren

$75.00 NZD

Category: Nelson

A well-researched and lavishly illustrated account of our boulder bank - the largest in the world. Nelson author, Karen Warren, details its formation, natural history, Maori legend and use, the associated history of European settlement and Nelson City, and she makes suggestions on how it can be safeguar ded. ...Show more

Nelson : Now and Then by Peter Lukas

$40.00 NZD

Category: Nelson

Hard Country: A Golden Bay Life by Robby (Robin) Robilliard

$40.00 NZD

Category: Nelson

Robby Robilliard and her husband Garry arrived in Golden Bay in 1957. Married in their early twenties, and with a child on the way, they longed to own their own sheep station. When they bought Rocklands, a marginal farm on the fringe of the Takaka Valley, bordering Abel Tasman National Park, their dream had come true - but it wasn't the life they had envisaged. It was a property no one else wanted, described by the agent as 'one hell of run-down place'. Robby even came to call it 'nightmare land'. The three previous owners of Rocklands had gone bankrupt. Yet it was all they could afford. Sixty years on, Robby and Garry still call Rocklands home. In fact, Garry is referred to as the 'oldest sheep farmer in Golden Bay'. This engaging book is Robby's story of the decades in which she and Garry eked a living out of Rocklands and of her encounters with the many and the varied local characters of Golden Bay. ...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, commission ed in 1997, made Nelson Pine Industries one of the largest single site producers of Medium Density Fibreboard in the world. ...Show more

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 1955, when shipping was at its height, 276 vessels entered the harbour. There have been two wharves at Motueka and their history involves not only extremes of weather and tide but also intense local politics and a petition to Parliament to enable the formation of the Motueka Harbour Board. This book was commissioned to celebrate the centennial of the present Motueka wharf built in 1916, rebuilt and extended in ferro-cement in 1924 and now owned by Talley's Group Ltd. It records the ships that worked the Tasman Bay port, the people who provisioned, loaded and went to sea in them and the families whose lives were bound up with the wharf. ...Show more

The Making of the French Pass Road in the Marlborough Sounds by Ian Dougherty

$22.00 NZD

Category: Nelson

DoP 2008, Auckland A-4 / 24pp Softcover Port Ligar farmer Jack Shand put it succinctly at the official opening of the Te Towaka-Port Ligar Road in 1968. "We were out on a limb. Now we are on the trunk and can go anywhere in New Zealand by road."The French Pass district in the northwest of the Marlboroug h Sounds was one of the last places in New Zealand to be opened up by road. It profoundly changed the district and the lives of its inhabitants. ...Show more

The Beauty of Nelson by Anna Rogers

$40.00 NZD

Category: Nelson

California House

$35.00 NZD

Category: Nelson

Awaroa Legacy by Carol Dawber & Lynette Wilson

$60.00 NZD

Category: Nelson

The Story of the Hadfield Family Frederick Brown Hadfield arrived in Nelson in 1858 with his family. Two sons, Harry Roodhouse Hadfield and William Welby Hadfield, farmed at Awaroa Bay from 1863; this book centres on William and his wife Adele, nee Martha Adele Ann Snow, and their descendants.

Nelson's First Railway and the City Bus by Mike Johnston

$35.00 NZD

Category: Nelson

A history of the Dun Mountain Railway, which gave access to several of the copper and chromite mines east of Nelson city, and a passenger service known as the Dun Mountain (or City) bus operated on the same line between the city centre and Port Nelson.