Park a labour of love
Brayshaw Museum Park in Blenheim is a labour of love which has taken over twenty years to reach its present state of development. It began as the dream of one man, Norm Brayshaw, who obtained the old town rubbish dump from the council to turn into a historical park.
He spent his retirement years travelling the province bringing back trailerloads of old farm machinery and historical ' bric-a-brac from whoever would give it to him, establishing a replica of nineteenth-century Blenheim and what has become the biggest collection of vintage farm machinery in the Southern Hemisphere.
Brayshaw Museum Park is now home to four societies —- the Marlborough Historical Society, the Marlborough branch of the Vintage Car Club of New Zealand, the Marlborough Vintage Farm Machinery Society and the Marlborough Associated Modellers Society. Apart from the replica village and the vintage machinery displays, the park offers a model boat pond, a
model aircraft control line flying circle and a model multi-gauge railway track complete with vintage’ timber viaducts and bridges. These can be seen up and running on the first Sunday of each month.
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Press, 9 August 1988, Page 3 (Supplement)
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