EWELME COTTAGE - BLANCHE LUSH -
Not very long ago I sat under a tree on the lawn outside Ewelme Cottage in Parnell Auckland and wondered what the thoughts of Blanche Lush were when she came to this house more than 150 years ago. What did she leave behind in England, and how do she adapt to NZ? Was it what she had expected?
Here you hear about her early years and in her own words from her journals and letters, her thoughts about the various parts of the country she lived in with her family from her arrival in 1850.
Blanche lived short periods at Ewelme until it became her permanent home in 1882 until her death in1912.
Ewelme Cottage is operated by Heritage N.Z Pouhere Taonga.
It is open to the public on Sundays 10.30 .to 4 pm