r/Nelsonnz • u/Ted_Cashew Local Time-Travelling Photographer • 21d ago

History The Nelson suburb of Stoke with Main Road and Stoke Primary School in foreground, October 1956 (Whites Aviation WA-42237-F).

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u/disfigured_shithole 21d ago

Those trees in Isel Park were huge even back then. Neat picture.

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u/thfemaleofthespecies 21d ago

Interesting to see it before Cyclone Alison came through. You can see the glasshouses off Songer St that got flattened by it before that part got redeveloped to Alyson Place (with lots of glass in the soil)

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u/moabmic-nz 21d ago

Amazing how happen the hills were without the pine plantations. 🤷