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Meet Outside the Walls Walking Tour Volunteer Guide Linda Long
Thursday, 11 April 2019
MeetLinda Long who has recently returned to our part of The Shakey Isles after the terrors of the Christchurch earthquake and aftershocks. Linda enjoys water colour painting and has joined our team of entrepid Outside the Walls Walking Tour guides. Although having lived in Rotorua for over thirty years, my…
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Meet Jane Foulkes once a theatre nurse and now one of our team of eager Outside the Walls Walking Tour guides
Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Jane says during her training she “has really enjoyed meeting a bunch of enthusiastic like-minded and just lovely people!” “I’ve learnt a lot about Rotorua – I never realized that the museum was a bathhouse, for me it was always a museum. People love hearing the stories, the gardens and the carvings”…
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Meet volunteer guide Charlie Te Ata
Meet Charlie Te Ata, a recent import to our country and newly married to a Te Arawa lad who whakapapa’s to Tutānekai. Charlie joined our team of eager Outside the Walls Walking Tour guides after wanting to learn more about her husband’s home. “I wanted to learn more about Rotorua…
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Meet Brian Small, retired Methodist Minister and part owner of LJ’s Seafood in the Central Mall.
Thursday, 20 December 2018
Brian is one of the new guides to join our team of keen Outside the Walls Walking Tour guides. Brian found learning about the history of the development of Rotorua very interesting – The Fenton Agreement, the leasing of the land and the consequent loss of expected income affecting the…
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International Volunteers Day
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
The 5th of December is Volunteers Day and we would like to mark the occasion by recognising a 3-year project recently completed by some of our Museum’s volunteers. Although the Museum has been closed, the work of the Collections team continues much as normal at the store which houses the…
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Meet Annie Thode a retired teacher and ex-Aucklander, who has joined our team of enthusiastic Outside the Walls Walking Tour guides.
Wednesday, 28 November 2018
Annie and her husband run Rotorua Views Bed and Breakfast. Annie is so enthusiastic about her new home and all she has learned about the history of Rotorua and the Bath House that she encourages all her visitors to take a tour round the gardens with our Rotorua Museum guides.…
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Lynn Gillespie
Monday, 29 October 2018
Meet Lynn Gillespie,a retired teacher, who has joined our team of enthusiastic ‘Outside the Walls’ Walking Tour guides. While the closure of the Bath House has dealt a huge blow to Rotorua, I can see a positive; the ‘Outside the Walls’ tours give visitors and locals an opportunity they wouldn’t…
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Neila Blackmore
Friday, 28 September 2018
Meet Neila Blackmore, one of our enthusiastic new Outside the Walls Walking Tour guides. Before undertaking her guide training, Neila thought she knew all about the Government Gardens. From her home in Pūkaki St, and her parents restaurant, The Empire, the gardens were Neila’s playground. Here is her story. Although…
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