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CommentsGareth And-Gill Davies
Used to hear my younger sister screaming from the classroom
Heather Newby
She drilled my teeth with no anaesthetic.. it was torture,
Ally Caddie
Still haunts me today
David Cook
Ally Caddie me to. God it hurt.
Gwen Gardner
Ally Caddie me to !!!!!
Helen McKenzie
Ally Caddie me three
Christine Farrell
Was a little hut of its own at St Pat's school. Went their often frightening. .....
Jan Fitzgerald
Uggg lower moutere school murder house
Paulette Turner
Scary shit.
Lyn Roberts
Paulette Turner scary all rite. Commonly known as the murder house!!
Paulette Turner
Lyn Roberts hated it.i remember biting the poor dental nurses finger and then telling her I needed to go to the toilet, before swiftly locking the door and refusing to come out
Julie Tomlinson
I remember as a 7yo telling the dental nurse thats what the kids called it, and i got 3 new fillings. Not because i really needed them, she said, but because she needed the practise!
Nina Townsend
Julie Tomlinson i truly believe we were used at guinea pigs 4 training
Nina Townsend so do I
Lyn Mallinson
Julie Tomlinson I believe that too
Trish Hutana
Dreadful places
Sophie Ryder
Patrick Nolan you told me about this
Heather Newby
I got fillings when i didnt even need them,,it wouldnt happen today
Nina Townsend
Gosh i remember chasing my sister pretty much head locking her & dragging her to the murder house. She hated them i was so embarrassed being called outa class to sort her out lmao. Poor sissy
Ken Reece
Yep...murder it was...no anaesthic ...I remember wrestling with the arms of the wooden chair....that was after my time in the ring ...just to get me to open my mouth...O SHIT...them was th days....of pain
Fiona Steffens
Oh wow that pic brings back nightmare memories, of being forcibly held down by two adults while the 3rd drilled and drilled and drilled, and with no pain relief. Two years later, that tooth had abcessed to the point where a dentist had to remove it. He was kind and gave all the pain relief I needed. He was also stunned that the tooth had been drilled to that point. There was no need for her to go that deep
Jean Mehrtens
No fluoride - so we all got mouths full of amalgam - my lower front amalgam fillings lasted more than 50 years before I had them removed - she must have been good at it.
Maria Delury Smith
Murderhouse
Sonia Dando
Those were the most horrible days of school
Ok you can all laugh at me but when my name was called out I wet my pants
Uproar in the classroom
Sue Dando
Sonia Dando I experienced the treadle buzzer...... The pictured one was a huge improvement. If you had a tealeaf stuck in your teeth, that was drilled as well.
Sonia Dando
Sue Dando all I remember was having panic attacks whenever the dental nurse came to the school
Sue Dando
Sonia Dando The murder house.
Brian Langton
Sue Dando me too and they couldn’t peddle fast enough.
Robin Donaldson
Used to be called up alphabetically so wagging school on the day was the go..
Steph JF
Lifetime trauma
Fiona Strachan
OMG I remember
Julie Henderson
Horror ! No wonder it still hard for me to see a dentist
Janine Manson
Julie Henderson Agree
Janine Manson
Still gives me chills
Rebekah Fairhurst Geer
Julie Henderson ditt
Lynette French
Terrible for us kids , still hate dentists
Mary Fenemor
Lynette French My Bottom, wouldnt Fit in that Chair ,now.
Judy Kemp
We have been damaged with those old dental day's.. Thank goodness it's all different now.
Sheryl Iraia
Memories. Hated the pedal drill
.
Raylene Cathcart
Cruel barbaric bastards they were..
Dorothy Wills
That looks similar to what my first trip to the dental clinic was
Shona Ratana
Remember that place only too well??
Ron Hibbs
The chair looks familiar, although the first drill was foot powered by the dental nurse
Heather Newby
Ron Hibbs yes.. i remember that.. it was horrific
Mary Thornton
!built a tolerance to pain for a whole generation
Robin Peterson
Terrible memories
Ellen Wassenaar
Robin Peterson Yes. Awful experience. Ruined our teeth. Should be a class action for compensation
Euan Allott
Those nurses were thrown out of the Gestapo for being too rough!
Ed Dando
Burn it too the ground!!
Maureen Burnett
Oh yes I remember that well
Maree Nolan
I remember running home to get mum ..she was scrubbing the kitchen floor somehow I made her go with me to the murder house it was a absolute horror of a day ..
Patricia Milne
I hated the school dentist.
Alison Oliver
Oh my goodness, I remember going to the dentist in Reefton..during the early 50's..if you were good, the nurse made a little doll for you out of cotton wool buds. I reckon I had half my teeth filled for nothing... she just needed something to do. Telling story today!!!
Judy Ann Hinde
Omg. I’ve seen the machine in a museum since but not the chair!!…..gives me the chills even now. I don’t know how accurate it was but at the age of 12 at Westport north school I was told by the school dental nurse that I was given the first anesthetic in South Island schools. Would have been 1977 I think. Think it was Nurse Dalziel? Maybe we really were guinea pigs!
Rae Amad
Horrible memories of the murderhouse !!!
Annie Biondo
Rae Amad completely agree. !!! It was a nightmare, I get worked up every time I have to go now.
Rae Amad
Annie Biondo haha same … no wonder
Matthew Appo
Worst thing about that picture wasn’t the pain it was the Mercury they used to poison us
Ian Aitken
I hated going to the murder house
Denise Bowen
Which murder house was this one???
Lyn Mallinson
So remember that, we had a treadle buzzer, no pain killers. No wonder we older ones have a high pain tolerance
Peta Jones
Well this little Peta Jones from Cobden school became a School Dental Nurse!
I'm sorry for so many negative memories amongst you, who likes to go to the dentist? None of my American friends who never went to a school dental clinic. It's rather universa… See More
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Gael Kitchin
Sadists of the highest order
Bronwen Skates
coz of them I still have a fear of dentists as an adult
Lee-Anne Parore
I cringed when I scrolled down to this image! And my teeth clenched! Unpleasant memories
Ann-Maree Duncan
What those dental nurses did to healthy teeth in young mouths.
They should be ashamed and the government made responsible
Just having all my filling replaced with safe fillings and its very costly
Heather Newby
Ann-Maree Duncan my teeth are stuffed
Ann-Maree Duncan
Heather Newby there was no reasoning to this barbaric drilling of healthy teeth
Peta Jones
Amalgam was then commonly used everywhere, including the high end dentist I worked for in Los Angeles.
'Safe' fillings were not available back when, anywhere.
Ann-Maree Duncan
Peta Jones yes but many of us needed no or very little fillings and certainly not the Quarries they drilled out
=
Niven Muir
Yes they im sure had quotas to fill, given mercury in a little plastic container to take home, and those foot powered drills, murder or torture house, the most horrific time for a young kid.
Rosemary Waterson
I have read most of comments.I was one of those people u said did the murdering.We were well trained could use LA and did so.Teeth in 70s 80s were not good.No fluoride lots of decay.Any medical procedure or dental procedure was done differently to toda….
Joanne Tunnage
Heather Newby agree with you.
Worst memory was when a supervisor came up to the nurse doing me and said your drilling the wrong tooth.
Ann-Maree Duncan
Rosemary Waterson..my teeth were perfect and still are except for those dam huge fillings.
Cynthia McCaughan
Rosemary Waterson I loved my dental nurses, I thought they were so sweet and kind, they would give you a stamp on the hand and a cotton wool snowman
Heather Newby
Cynthia McCaughan i got a fairy and I got to play with the mercury balls.
Rosemary Waterson
I font think pictures like this are helpful.
Cheryl Pinn
We took fluoride tablets in the 60's the dental nurses were just mongrels!
Cheryl Pinn
Think the dentist at Cobden school was a miss Walker?I remember being tied in the chair,slapped legs.I only had one line of defence I clamped down as hard as I could on her fingers.We should have been able to do them for the trauma they caused us.I was 6 or 7 when I went to Burford.The thought of going to a dentist still puts the shits up me!
Sandy Langdon
Cheryl Pinn that also happened in Collingwood school, I even took some special daphne flowers for her. BUT while she was getting things ready I put a hanky in.my mouth, well did I get a slap and a half for doing that, got her back, bit down as hard as I could on those nasty fingers. I am sure I got a filling that was not needed, shut my brother and sister up as they were next. Every time we drove past her house I would sit on the floor of the car. Horrid woman
Wayne Leckie
Cheryl Pinn when my name was culled I was out of there and off home
Julene Gallagher
The murder house was named aptly
Pete Lusk
Thanks for posting, is it true dental nurses only worked on milk teeth? Anyway, my teeth lasted to this yr with me 73. I’m gummy and enjoying it, can eat steak as long as it’s not too tough.
Catherine Cameron
Reember this so well! Was at St Patrick's in Kumara and the walk to the Dental clinic at the State School was one I took the longest time to walk!
Rosanna Anderson
I must be weird on have never minded going to the dentist
Rod Wadsworth
Ya bloody right there
Rosemary Waterson
It would be good if people were reminded of rules before posting nasty posts.
Andy McPhedran
The murder house.
Lynda Dishington
Hell yes most scariest thing ever False teeth now no more dentist territied
Malcolm Broad
Tryed to hide once but my dog found me bugger her.
Helen Brennan
I used to put me card on step and run away from school
Barb Rodway
I bit them, so hated those days
John Webster
I worked out early that my name was about the last one on the list and was sick that day and never went to school
Thomas Peter Mulligan
Omg I took years before I could go to a dentist
Margaret Harrington
When you think back, most of this was on our first teeth that we lost quite early anyway. It wasnt needed
Jude Nicoll
I still get anxiety at the dentist. Those dental nurses were evil
Lyn Whittle
Unfortunately the dental nurses had to work with what they were given. Flowable composite materials were not around back in our day. If you understand where and how caries/decay starts you will understand that amalgam cannot fill narrow fissures, caries/decay forms at the base of a fissure the only way to get rid of it is drill a large cavity to access it and fill it with the only material available…amalgam which is not flowable
Bill Gardyne
I got a cold shiver when I saw that not a good memory at all
Ditch Ryder
I screamed seeing this pic of the murder house..didn't realize how traumatised I was..
Marie Wellgreen
I remember that chair
Andy Bone
Nurse in uniform an in schools shame we lost that and plunket
Brian W Garrett
That is why I have false teeth now
Darren Kirner
It so was, bastards
Jannice Hansen
They were
Deb Murphy
Horrible memories of this place
Rhonda Glasson
The murder house as we called it Always rember there was a lot of tears on my part
Lois McMillan
Hated it
Denise Clark
We had Vicky Morris in 70s, 80s in Christchurch she made it the murder house even followed me from one school to another
Lyn Whittle
The holes would have been deep in the fissures decay starts from the inside out and is only viewable with a radiograph
Dave Steel
Yep... nightmares still
Raylene Black
they were horrific experiences...still shudder about them .
Kevin Harris
Leslie Hanlon Harris
Louise Ballard
Carolyn Pritchard looks like your chair
Wynsome Adams
God that brings back so many bad memories still hold the arms of the dental chair & have to remind myself to relax!!!!
Gary Hood
I can remember the school dental nurse knocking on our classroom door ..oh no..we all be shiting ourselfs...who's it gonna be..but hey we got a wee boat made out of spent a needle case with a wee sail and all..for not screaming our heads of ..and when theain machine broke down dental nurse would use the back up..the tready one....oh those were the days .and no injection to numb the gums . bloody torture
christine Burn
Terrible to think that kids had to experience such fear and dread!
Beverley Bassett Broad
Rebecca Wilson
Denis-Pat Pilkington
Is that one of those old drills that the nurse used to have a pedal to make it work? Used to go to a nurse called Cassidy, u can guess what we called her
Nicky Pape
So remember this
Tracey Ramsay
I am still scared of the dentist.
Glenda O'Donnell
I remember that chair
Michelle Abraham
This brings back awful memory’s to this day I’m still frightened
Sue Eade
I was told they were paid by the filling and they absolutely buggered our teeth and made us terrified for life of going to the dentist
Raewyn Louttit
That’s all I wanted to be was a dentle nurse
Carolyn Murphy
Horror stories
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Marg Iacoppi
At least by the time I remember the chair was a little more technical. And don’t forget the balls of mercury in an empty needle holder to play with! Such Fun
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Nigel Jayes
i remeber i was in the chair waiting next to andy black at avondale primary in chch gone now and he got the needle it went right thru his gum let out massive scream blood peeing everywhere ,christ i was next ,scary times the practiced drilling on us .
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Sue Lyon
Oh my goodness, what terrible memories of that place! Lol
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Shelley Lindsey
Nightmare material
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Kaylah Maree
Kelly Pattinson
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Wendy Bruce
You were lucky having that short notice. Ahaura kids had to go to Ikamatua so the ‘roster’ was known beforehand……..then the trip to Iky
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Judy Bagnall
Still gives me the shivers!
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Pauline Failes
Wendy Bruce Judy Bagnall me too. Last time I went to the dentist I was telling my 81 year old neighbour why I hated going and she told me her father was the headmaster at Ikamatua and she went to that school as a little girl! Small world
Wendy Bruce
Pauline I still feel slight panic when driving past where it was. I reckon we should claim ACC for childhood trauma inflicted by the Government
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Sharon Cohen-Manley
Still traumatized by the Ikamatua Murder House!!!!!
Chris Farrington
I still hate the smell of meths.
Wendy Bruce
Chris so do I to the extent I feel nauseous
Scott Titheridge
There was one dental nurse we had called nurse Onion.
Sparro Birdman
Judy Dixon was one also.
Leanne Cochrane
I loved the smell of the dental clinic I couldn’t wait for my turn
Lyla Al-Alawi
Leanne Cochrane I hated it..still do..is interesting how each child is different
Alistair Paton-McDonald
The treadle drill was scary, when the leg got tired the drill bit jammed in the hole in the tooth. The swish swish of the dental nurses skirt meant you were heading to 'hell '
John Newton
Same as Stephen Harris Stephen spent many hours in those chairs ,but still have my own teeth ,might have been a bit of a myth about the murder chair
Gina Straker
Omg that picture brings back horrible memories, yes it definitely felt like torture and still have that fear of a dentist but must say my last experience wasn't too bad
John Moore
I think I quite enjoyed being woman handled by the dental nurses.
Pete Lusk
John Moore snuggled against that bosom.
Allan Wasley
the way to ruin a child forever.. especially the foot tredle model3m
Trudz Freedom
Cringe
Used to hear my younger sister screaming from the classroom
Heather Newby
She drilled my teeth with no anaesthetic.. it was torture,
Ally Caddie
Still haunts me today
David Cook
Ally Caddie me to. God it hurt.
Gwen Gardner
Ally Caddie me to !!!!!
Helen McKenzie
Ally Caddie me three
Christine Farrell
Was a little hut of its own at St Pat's school. Went their often frightening. .....
Jan Fitzgerald
Uggg lower moutere school murder house
Paulette Turner
Scary shit.
Lyn Roberts
Paulette Turner scary all rite. Commonly known as the murder house!!
Paulette Turner
Lyn Roberts hated it.i remember biting the poor dental nurses finger and then telling her I needed to go to the toilet, before swiftly locking the door and refusing to come out
Julie Tomlinson
I remember as a 7yo telling the dental nurse thats what the kids called it, and i got 3 new fillings. Not because i really needed them, she said, but because she needed the practise!
Nina Townsend
Julie Tomlinson i truly believe we were used at guinea pigs 4 training
Nina Townsend so do I
Lyn Mallinson
Julie Tomlinson I believe that too
Trish Hutana
Dreadful places
Sophie Ryder
Patrick Nolan you told me about this
Heather Newby
I got fillings when i didnt even need them,,it wouldnt happen today
Nina Townsend
Gosh i remember chasing my sister pretty much head locking her & dragging her to the murder house. She hated them i was so embarrassed being called outa class to sort her out lmao. Poor sissy
Ken Reece
Yep...murder it was...no anaesthic ...I remember wrestling with the arms of the wooden chair....that was after my time in the ring ...just to get me to open my mouth...O SHIT...them was th days....of pain
Fiona Steffens
Oh wow that pic brings back nightmare memories, of being forcibly held down by two adults while the 3rd drilled and drilled and drilled, and with no pain relief. Two years later, that tooth had abcessed to the point where a dentist had to remove it. He was kind and gave all the pain relief I needed. He was also stunned that the tooth had been drilled to that point. There was no need for her to go that deep
Jean Mehrtens
No fluoride - so we all got mouths full of amalgam - my lower front amalgam fillings lasted more than 50 years before I had them removed - she must have been good at it.
Maria Delury Smith
Murderhouse
Sonia Dando
Those were the most horrible days of school
Ok you can all laugh at me but when my name was called out I wet my pants
Uproar in the classroom
Sue Dando
Sonia Dando I experienced the treadle buzzer...... The pictured one was a huge improvement. If you had a tealeaf stuck in your teeth, that was drilled as well.
Sonia Dando
Sue Dando all I remember was having panic attacks whenever the dental nurse came to the school
Sue Dando
Sonia Dando The murder house.
Brian Langton
Sue Dando me too and they couldn’t peddle fast enough.
Robin Donaldson
Used to be called up alphabetically so wagging school on the day was the go..
Steph JF
Lifetime trauma
Fiona Strachan
OMG I remember
Julie Henderson
Horror ! No wonder it still hard for me to see a dentist
Janine Manson
Julie Henderson Agree
Janine Manson
Still gives me chills
Rebekah Fairhurst Geer
Julie Henderson ditt
Lynette French
Terrible for us kids , still hate dentists
Mary Fenemor
Lynette French My Bottom, wouldnt Fit in that Chair ,now.
Judy Kemp
We have been damaged with those old dental day's.. Thank goodness it's all different now.
Sheryl Iraia
Memories. Hated the pedal drill
.
Raylene Cathcart
Cruel barbaric bastards they were..
Dorothy Wills
That looks similar to what my first trip to the dental clinic was
Shona Ratana
Remember that place only too well??
Ron Hibbs
The chair looks familiar, although the first drill was foot powered by the dental nurse
Heather Newby
Ron Hibbs yes.. i remember that.. it was horrific
Mary Thornton
!built a tolerance to pain for a whole generation
Robin Peterson
Terrible memories
Ellen Wassenaar
Robin Peterson Yes. Awful experience. Ruined our teeth. Should be a class action for compensation
Euan Allott
Those nurses were thrown out of the Gestapo for being too rough!
Ed Dando
Burn it too the ground!!
Maureen Burnett
Oh yes I remember that well
Maree Nolan
I remember running home to get mum ..she was scrubbing the kitchen floor somehow I made her go with me to the murder house it was a absolute horror of a day ..
Patricia Milne
I hated the school dentist.
Alison Oliver
Oh my goodness, I remember going to the dentist in Reefton..during the early 50's..if you were good, the nurse made a little doll for you out of cotton wool buds. I reckon I had half my teeth filled for nothing... she just needed something to do. Telling story today!!!
Judy Ann Hinde
Omg. I’ve seen the machine in a museum since but not the chair!!…..gives me the chills even now. I don’t know how accurate it was but at the age of 12 at Westport north school I was told by the school dental nurse that I was given the first anesthetic in South Island schools. Would have been 1977 I think. Think it was Nurse Dalziel? Maybe we really were guinea pigs!
Rae Amad
Horrible memories of the murderhouse !!!
Annie Biondo
Rae Amad completely agree. !!! It was a nightmare, I get worked up every time I have to go now.
Rae Amad
Annie Biondo haha same … no wonder
Matthew Appo
Worst thing about that picture wasn’t the pain it was the Mercury they used to poison us
Ian Aitken
I hated going to the murder house
Denise Bowen
Which murder house was this one???
Lyn Mallinson
So remember that, we had a treadle buzzer, no pain killers. No wonder we older ones have a high pain tolerance
Peta Jones
Well this little Peta Jones from Cobden school became a School Dental Nurse!
I'm sorry for so many negative memories amongst you, who likes to go to the dentist? None of my American friends who never went to a school dental clinic. It's rather universa… See More
May be an image of 3 people, people standing and indoor
· Reply · 2h
Gael Kitchin
Sadists of the highest order
Bronwen Skates
coz of them I still have a fear of dentists as an adult
Lee-Anne Parore
I cringed when I scrolled down to this image! And my teeth clenched! Unpleasant memories
Ann-Maree Duncan
What those dental nurses did to healthy teeth in young mouths.
They should be ashamed and the government made responsible
Just having all my filling replaced with safe fillings and its very costly
Heather Newby
Ann-Maree Duncan my teeth are stuffed
Ann-Maree Duncan
Heather Newby there was no reasoning to this barbaric drilling of healthy teeth
Peta Jones
Amalgam was then commonly used everywhere, including the high end dentist I worked for in Los Angeles.
'Safe' fillings were not available back when, anywhere.
Ann-Maree Duncan
Peta Jones yes but many of us needed no or very little fillings and certainly not the Quarries they drilled out
=
Niven Muir
Yes they im sure had quotas to fill, given mercury in a little plastic container to take home, and those foot powered drills, murder or torture house, the most horrific time for a young kid.
Rosemary Waterson
I have read most of comments.I was one of those people u said did the murdering.We were well trained could use LA and did so.Teeth in 70s 80s were not good.No fluoride lots of decay.Any medical procedure or dental procedure was done differently to toda….
Joanne Tunnage
Heather Newby agree with you.
Worst memory was when a supervisor came up to the nurse doing me and said your drilling the wrong tooth.
Ann-Maree Duncan
Rosemary Waterson..my teeth were perfect and still are except for those dam huge fillings.
Cynthia McCaughan
Rosemary Waterson I loved my dental nurses, I thought they were so sweet and kind, they would give you a stamp on the hand and a cotton wool snowman
Heather Newby
Cynthia McCaughan i got a fairy and I got to play with the mercury balls.
Rosemary Waterson
I font think pictures like this are helpful.
Cheryl Pinn
We took fluoride tablets in the 60's the dental nurses were just mongrels!
Cheryl Pinn
Think the dentist at Cobden school was a miss Walker?I remember being tied in the chair,slapped legs.I only had one line of defence I clamped down as hard as I could on her fingers.We should have been able to do them for the trauma they caused us.I was 6 or 7 when I went to Burford.The thought of going to a dentist still puts the shits up me!
Sandy Langdon
Cheryl Pinn that also happened in Collingwood school, I even took some special daphne flowers for her. BUT while she was getting things ready I put a hanky in.my mouth, well did I get a slap and a half for doing that, got her back, bit down as hard as I could on those nasty fingers. I am sure I got a filling that was not needed, shut my brother and sister up as they were next. Every time we drove past her house I would sit on the floor of the car. Horrid woman
Wayne Leckie
Cheryl Pinn when my name was culled I was out of there and off home
Julene Gallagher
The murder house was named aptly
Pete Lusk
Thanks for posting, is it true dental nurses only worked on milk teeth? Anyway, my teeth lasted to this yr with me 73. I’m gummy and enjoying it, can eat steak as long as it’s not too tough.
Catherine Cameron
Reember this so well! Was at St Patrick's in Kumara and the walk to the Dental clinic at the State School was one I took the longest time to walk!
Rosanna Anderson
I must be weird on have never minded going to the dentist
Rod Wadsworth
Ya bloody right there
Rosemary Waterson
It would be good if people were reminded of rules before posting nasty posts.
Andy McPhedran
The murder house.
Lynda Dishington
Hell yes most scariest thing ever False teeth now no more dentist territied
Malcolm Broad
Tryed to hide once but my dog found me bugger her.
Helen Brennan
I used to put me card on step and run away from school
Barb Rodway
I bit them, so hated those days
John Webster
I worked out early that my name was about the last one on the list and was sick that day and never went to school
Thomas Peter Mulligan
Omg I took years before I could go to a dentist
Margaret Harrington
When you think back, most of this was on our first teeth that we lost quite early anyway. It wasnt needed
Jude Nicoll
I still get anxiety at the dentist. Those dental nurses were evil
Lyn Whittle
Unfortunately the dental nurses had to work with what they were given. Flowable composite materials were not around back in our day. If you understand where and how caries/decay starts you will understand that amalgam cannot fill narrow fissures, caries/decay forms at the base of a fissure the only way to get rid of it is drill a large cavity to access it and fill it with the only material available…amalgam which is not flowable
Bill Gardyne
I got a cold shiver when I saw that not a good memory at all
Ditch Ryder
I screamed seeing this pic of the murder house..didn't realize how traumatised I was..
Marie Wellgreen
I remember that chair
Andy Bone
Nurse in uniform an in schools shame we lost that and plunket
Brian W Garrett
That is why I have false teeth now
Darren Kirner
It so was, bastards
Jannice Hansen
They were
Deb Murphy
Horrible memories of this place
Rhonda Glasson
The murder house as we called it Always rember there was a lot of tears on my part
Lois McMillan
Hated it
Denise Clark
We had Vicky Morris in 70s, 80s in Christchurch she made it the murder house even followed me from one school to another
Lyn Whittle
The holes would have been deep in the fissures decay starts from the inside out and is only viewable with a radiograph
Dave Steel
Yep... nightmares still
Raylene Black
they were horrific experiences...still shudder about them .
Kevin Harris
Leslie Hanlon Harris
Louise Ballard
Carolyn Pritchard looks like your chair
Wynsome Adams
God that brings back so many bad memories still hold the arms of the dental chair & have to remind myself to relax!!!!
Gary Hood
I can remember the school dental nurse knocking on our classroom door ..oh no..we all be shiting ourselfs...who's it gonna be..but hey we got a wee boat made out of spent a needle case with a wee sail and all..for not screaming our heads of ..and when theain machine broke down dental nurse would use the back up..the tready one....oh those were the days .and no injection to numb the gums . bloody torture
christine Burn
Terrible to think that kids had to experience such fear and dread!
Beverley Bassett Broad
Rebecca Wilson
Denis-Pat Pilkington
Is that one of those old drills that the nurse used to have a pedal to make it work? Used to go to a nurse called Cassidy, u can guess what we called her
Nicky Pape
So remember this
Tracey Ramsay
I am still scared of the dentist.
Glenda O'Donnell
I remember that chair
Michelle Abraham
This brings back awful memory’s to this day I’m still frightened
Sue Eade
I was told they were paid by the filling and they absolutely buggered our teeth and made us terrified for life of going to the dentist
Raewyn Louttit
That’s all I wanted to be was a dentle nurse
Carolyn Murphy
Horror stories
· Reply · 6h
Marg Iacoppi
At least by the time I remember the chair was a little more technical. And don’t forget the balls of mercury in an empty needle holder to play with! Such Fun
· Reply · 4h
Nigel Jayes
i remeber i was in the chair waiting next to andy black at avondale primary in chch gone now and he got the needle it went right thru his gum let out massive scream blood peeing everywhere ,christ i was next ,scary times the practiced drilling on us .
· Reply · 4h
Sue Lyon
Oh my goodness, what terrible memories of that place! Lol
· Reply · 4h
Shelley Lindsey
Nightmare material
· Reply · 3h
Kaylah Maree
Kelly Pattinson
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Wendy Bruce
You were lucky having that short notice. Ahaura kids had to go to Ikamatua so the ‘roster’ was known beforehand……..then the trip to Iky
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Judy Bagnall
Still gives me the shivers!
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Pauline Failes
Wendy Bruce Judy Bagnall me too. Last time I went to the dentist I was telling my 81 year old neighbour why I hated going and she told me her father was the headmaster at Ikamatua and she went to that school as a little girl! Small world
Wendy Bruce
Pauline I still feel slight panic when driving past where it was. I reckon we should claim ACC for childhood trauma inflicted by the Government
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Sharon Cohen-Manley
Still traumatized by the Ikamatua Murder House!!!!!
Chris Farrington
I still hate the smell of meths.
Wendy Bruce
Chris so do I to the extent I feel nauseous
Scott Titheridge
There was one dental nurse we had called nurse Onion.
Sparro Birdman
Judy Dixon was one also.
Leanne Cochrane
I loved the smell of the dental clinic I couldn’t wait for my turn
Lyla Al-Alawi
Leanne Cochrane I hated it..still do..is interesting how each child is different
Alistair Paton-McDonald
The treadle drill was scary, when the leg got tired the drill bit jammed in the hole in the tooth. The swish swish of the dental nurses skirt meant you were heading to 'hell '
John Newton
Same as Stephen Harris Stephen spent many hours in those chairs ,but still have my own teeth ,might have been a bit of a myth about the murder chair
Gina Straker
Omg that picture brings back horrible memories, yes it definitely felt like torture and still have that fear of a dentist but must say my last experience wasn't too bad
John Moore
I think I quite enjoyed being woman handled by the dental nurses.
Pete Lusk
John Moore snuggled against that bosom.
Allan Wasley
the way to ruin a child forever.. especially the foot tredle model3m
Trudz Freedom
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West Coast New Zealand History (19th Aug 2021). The Murder House. In Website West Coast New Zealand History. Retrieved 24th May 2026 04:16, from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/1393