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CommentsHeather Bennett I made my first communion in this little church on the hill
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Margaret McBride walked there many a frosty Sunday morning,but no trace of it now.
Pauline Schafer Yep, I was there with Heather making our first communion. It looks quite overgrown there so I'm guessing it was after it was deconsecrated when the Dobson church was built. That would have been around 1967-1968 at a guess. Mum used to wash all the alter cloths and priests robes etc. and would polish the silver.
Scott Mitchell I think the Dobson church was built around 1963 because I was the 1st to be baptised in it
Maureen Kelly The bell tower was still standing when I was there in 2012.
Victor Smithers
Victor Smithers yep bell tower is still there ..
Shona Ratana
Thats where I and my siblings spent most Sunday mornings for either the 8 or 10 Mass. Freezing place. Dobson had Church there for years too which my Mum attended.
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Karen Blanchfield
Shona Ratana Hope Enda said her prayers
Heather Reid
Mum took me there when everyone had left I would sneak in an play Michael row the boat ashore
Naireen Bass
Heather Reid I have just taught my 9 year old granddaughter to play Michael on her little keyboard. It's a classic learners song
Mike Waghorne
I was an alter boy there in the early 1950s when Fathe Ohara was the priest, coming 4 Sundays out of five from Runanga.
Vern Pattinson
I remember seeing that church very well
Simon Cooper
Reminds me of that old derelict church on the Ngahere highway.
Margaret McBride
spent many a freezing Sunday morning there.
Anne Kelly
Mum ( Mollie Kelly) was 1 of the women that went there to change the flowers. We played on the organ while she did her work.
Colleen Yee
Lovely photo - would like to know if there is any written history of when it was closed and also when it was demolished.
Christine Hart
Ah the memories.
Christine Hart
First communion photo!
May be an image of 7 people and people standing
Percy Billett
I still have my old Brunnerton birth certificate
Pauline Schafer
Yes we were there every week.! I had long hair then and mum would put it up in rags on sat. Night so I’d have ringlets under my hat for church. When the church closed I would have been around 10 or so and when the pews were taken out, we used to roller skate in it. So that would have been around 1965, and it was demolished not long after that. The old man next door to the church was Huey Keenan, and the Mosiglios on the other side of the church.
John White
Pauline Schafer
Gosh Good memory’s Pauline. I remember both those families.
John White
As you came across the Brunner bridge the church was straight ahead of you up on the hillside above the main road. From memory Mosiglios were next to the church (I think).
Pauline Schafer
Mum used to wash the sacred garments and do any mending required.
Pauline Schafer
Carrol Stretch here’s a memory for you.
Bill Garth
Hughie Keenan lived in an old cottage next door. He was a cousin of my family
Maree Nolan
We used to walk from Dobson to the Brunner church until the new one was built in DobsonPauline Schafer
Yes we were there every week.! I had long hair then and mum would put it up in rags on sat. Night so I’d have ringlets under my hat for church. When the church closed I would have been around 10 or so and when the pews were taken out, we used to roller… See More
John White
Pauline Schafer
Gosh Good memory’s Pauline. I remember both those families.
Maxine Morgan
John White where was that situated John.
John White
As you came across the Brunner bridge the church was straight ahead of you up on the hillside above the main road. From memory Mosiglios were next to the church (I think).
Pauline Schafer
John White that’s correct John, before you got to the Martin’s house, and Bert Jones opposite them.
John White
Stretching the memory a little but I can still picture most Brunner/Taylorville places.
Pauline Schafer
Mum used to wash the sacred garments and do any mending required.
Pauline Schafer
Carrol Stretch here’s a memory for you.
Heather Reid
Omg Margaret Mulloy it would have been bloody cold coming over bridge with barber racing down the river
Margaret McBride
remember it well on a cold & frosty morning.
Anne Kelly
Every Sunday morning!
Margaret McBride
what good did it do us????
Pauline Schafer
I haven’t seen this photo before. I’ve got a photo of me standing on the steps after our first communion there, and again at home with my family and Carrol and Kenny Martin.
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Margaret McBride walked there many a frosty Sunday morning,but no trace of it now.
Pauline Schafer Yep, I was there with Heather making our first communion. It looks quite overgrown there so I'm guessing it was after it was deconsecrated when the Dobson church was built. That would have been around 1967-1968 at a guess. Mum used to wash all the alter cloths and priests robes etc. and would polish the silver.
Scott Mitchell I think the Dobson church was built around 1963 because I was the 1st to be baptised in it
Maureen Kelly The bell tower was still standing when I was there in 2012.
Victor Smithers
Victor Smithers yep bell tower is still there ..
Shona Ratana
Thats where I and my siblings spent most Sunday mornings for either the 8 or 10 Mass. Freezing place. Dobson had Church there for years too which my Mum attended.
·
Karen Blanchfield
Shona Ratana Hope Enda said her prayers
Heather Reid
Mum took me there when everyone had left I would sneak in an play Michael row the boat ashore
Naireen Bass
Heather Reid I have just taught my 9 year old granddaughter to play Michael on her little keyboard. It's a classic learners song
Mike Waghorne
I was an alter boy there in the early 1950s when Fathe Ohara was the priest, coming 4 Sundays out of five from Runanga.
Vern Pattinson
I remember seeing that church very well
Simon Cooper
Reminds me of that old derelict church on the Ngahere highway.
Margaret McBride
spent many a freezing Sunday morning there.
Anne Kelly
Mum ( Mollie Kelly) was 1 of the women that went there to change the flowers. We played on the organ while she did her work.
Colleen Yee
Lovely photo - would like to know if there is any written history of when it was closed and also when it was demolished.
Christine Hart
Ah the memories.
Christine Hart
First communion photo!
May be an image of 7 people and people standing
Percy Billett
I still have my old Brunnerton birth certificate
Pauline Schafer
Yes we were there every week.! I had long hair then and mum would put it up in rags on sat. Night so I’d have ringlets under my hat for church. When the church closed I would have been around 10 or so and when the pews were taken out, we used to roller skate in it. So that would have been around 1965, and it was demolished not long after that. The old man next door to the church was Huey Keenan, and the Mosiglios on the other side of the church.
John White
Pauline Schafer
Gosh Good memory’s Pauline. I remember both those families.
John White
As you came across the Brunner bridge the church was straight ahead of you up on the hillside above the main road. From memory Mosiglios were next to the church (I think).
Pauline Schafer
Mum used to wash the sacred garments and do any mending required.
Pauline Schafer
Carrol Stretch here’s a memory for you.
Bill Garth
Hughie Keenan lived in an old cottage next door. He was a cousin of my family
Maree Nolan
We used to walk from Dobson to the Brunner church until the new one was built in DobsonPauline Schafer
Yes we were there every week.! I had long hair then and mum would put it up in rags on sat. Night so I’d have ringlets under my hat for church. When the church closed I would have been around 10 or so and when the pews were taken out, we used to roller… See More
John White
Pauline Schafer
Gosh Good memory’s Pauline. I remember both those families.
Maxine Morgan
John White where was that situated John.
John White
As you came across the Brunner bridge the church was straight ahead of you up on the hillside above the main road. From memory Mosiglios were next to the church (I think).
Pauline Schafer
John White that’s correct John, before you got to the Martin’s house, and Bert Jones opposite them.
John White
Stretching the memory a little but I can still picture most Brunner/Taylorville places.
Pauline Schafer
Mum used to wash the sacred garments and do any mending required.
Pauline Schafer
Carrol Stretch here’s a memory for you.
Heather Reid
Omg Margaret Mulloy it would have been bloody cold coming over bridge with barber racing down the river
Margaret McBride
remember it well on a cold & frosty morning.
Anne Kelly
Every Sunday morning!
Margaret McBride
what good did it do us????
Pauline Schafer
I haven’t seen this photo before. I’ve got a photo of me standing on the steps after our first communion there, and again at home with my family and Carrol and Kenny Martin.
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