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DescriptionThis place in Greymouth has always been intriguing ever since I was a kid. Seems like a big place. Looks like mother nature's slowly claiming it. Does anyone know the story behind it? When built and who for? - Colin WatermanDate of PhotoBetween 1st January 2016 and 31st December 2016Map[1] ContributorColin Waterman
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Like · Reply · September 16 at 8:22pm · Edited
Colin Waterman
Colin Waterman Did Marist brothers build it?
Like · Reply · 1 · September 16 at 8:23pm
Baybgee Tengu
Baybgee Tengu Joelene Ropiha Cherame Mossley is this the place we use to go to During school lunch brakes??
Like · Reply · 3 · September 16 at 8:32pm · Edited
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Cherame Mossley
Cherame Mossley Kelly.. do u remember much about this.. with lou? Lance?
Like · Reply · September 16 at 10:03pm
Cherame Mossley
Cherame Mossley Yes Baybgee.. wen jo used to cruz round in lance's blu escort. . They were the days ..
Like · Reply · 2 · September 16 at 10:04pm
Lance Williams
Lance Williams Way in the past that place.
Ah 40 Chapel Street would have some stories to tell.
Like · Reply · 3 · September 16 at 10:35pm
Kelly Williams
Kelly Williams Duno about that one ,40 now theres a place i know alot about lol
Like · Reply · 3 · September 17 at 8:26am
Lance Williams
Lance Williams The photo is of 40 Chapel, it's seen better days.
Like · Reply · 3 · September 17 at 8:39am
Kelly Williams
Kelly Williams Really!....though it was the place next door when Gary Gurden lived
Like · Reply · 3 · September 17 at 8:44am
Kelly Williams
Kelly Williams Pauls sister bough it and done it up last i herd ,is anyone still live there ...i could write a book on that place !
Like · Reply · 2 · September 17 at 8:47am
Jason Mather
Jason Mather Cherame Mossley that was Lance's MK2 Cortina not an escort & yes Lance should know it well as it was my place at one stage in my life including the place next door
Like · Reply · 1 · Yesterday at 10:34am
Cherame Mossley
Cherame Mossley Umm. Ok Jason. But im sure it was an escort. .light blue with louvres. . Lance.. what was it. Escort or cortina? I dont mind being wrong..... ... .. ... ..
Like · Reply · Yesterday at 10:37am
Jason Mather
Jason Mather Cherame Mossley light blue MK2 cortina with a V6 & mag wheels, i had a v6 105e anglia & Nathan Butters RIP had the other MK2 cortina with a V6 in it, all 3 of us ole amegios owned them all at the same time & used to shit talk who had the better one a w...See More
Like · Reply · 1 · Yesterday at 10:43am
Jason Mather
Jason Mather Kelly Williams Tim Stewart & i plus old Michael Manera used to live in the place next door to this place too, im sure you used to pop in to the pad when i was living there too, many partys we had in that place & many used to come in & out when they were going on
Like · Reply · 1 · Yesterday at 10:55am
Kelly Williams
Kelly Williams Yeah ,i remember Richard Stevens lived there with dean sweetman ,justin duthie....then Gary Gurden & colin,little mike and mike tompson.we ran a power cord from ours to theres all the time as the power was never on ,how i went to work everyday i will ...See More
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Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre John Greaney you will know
Like · Reply · September 16 at 8:31pm
Tony Kokshoorn
Tony Kokshoorn Yes it was next door to Greaney,s Place.I think it was owned by the Gilbert Family.
Like · Reply · 3 · September 16 at 8:34pm
Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre Thanks Tony Kokshoorn
Like · Reply · 1 · September 16 at 8:35pm
Roseanne Winstanley
Roseanne Winstanley Was the Old Guerin homestead, to the left of this were the McCanns, then the Greaney's homestead. Old Jack Guerin used to look after the St Columba Hall. I have gone up that track many times to get cows milk from there on a Sunday evening. I lived nearly opposite 50s, 60s and early 70s.
Like · Reply · 3 · September 17 at 4:10pm
Colin Waterman
Colin Waterman Would love to see a floor plan of it. Was it two or three levels?
Like · Reply · September 17 at 4:15pm
Roseanne Winstanley
Roseanne Winstanley From what I can remember 3 floors, the bottom sort of a basement/storage for bikes etc. Covered the hillside. Don't know the floor plan but I went to the door at the left of the verandah and the kitchen was just inside this door.
Like · Reply · 2 · September 17 at 4:26pm
Colin Waterman
Colin Waterman Thanks Roseanne. Its just quite different isn't. Makes me wonder how it's laid out.
Like · Reply · 1 · September 17 at 4:31pm
Susann Twist
Susann Twist nobody has lived in it for the past 2 years...but looks like a squatter could be there sometimes ... as strange movements with the curtains of late
Like · Reply · 3 · September 17 at 4:32pm
Colin Waterman
Colin Waterman It's a shame the vines growing through. Unfortunately the maintenance costs are to much now days.
Like · Reply · 1 · September 17 at 4:35pm
Barry James
Barry James Is that Handbags old place Susann ?
Like · Reply · Yesterday at 5:58am
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Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre Roseanne Winstanley you might remember old Enid Tillyshort then who was opposite and off the end of Alexander St
Like · Reply · September 17 at 4:33pm
Roseanne Winstanley
Roseanne Winstanley I certainly do.
Like · Reply · September 17 at 4:44pm
Lynnette Beirne
Lynnette Beirne Miss Tillyshort used to come in her little Morris Minor and collect the insurance premiums from my parents in Hokitika
Like · Reply · 1 · September 19 at 4:11pm
Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre Thats her Lynette Lynnette Beirne
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Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre Roseanne Winstanley From my life story.....DAVID TILLYSHORT
David Tillyshort, yes that was his real name, would never play cricket with us, but his Dad did have a car, a 1947 Vauxhall with that little indicator arm in the door pillar, in the middle of...See More
Like · Reply · 2 · September 17 at 4:48pm
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Roseanne Winstanley
Roseanne Winstanley Great story. From my childhood memories, Pascoes lived on the corner, then Captain and Mrs Rutter (Cnr Chapel and Alxander Tce). On the next corner down (where Erin Botica and husband lived ) there was a Mr and Mrs Bishop. Do you remember these names?
Like · Reply · 1 · September 17 at 5:00pm
Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre I remember the names but Mrs Rutter I do remember going to the races with a part roll of toilet paper with a pound note wrapped around it to make it look like a wad of money. Ha ha those were the days
Like · Reply · 1 · September 17 at 5:04pm
Irene Quy Merv Pascoe
Irene Quy Merv Pascoe Roseanne Winstanley what pascoes
Like · Reply · 1 · September 17 at 10:15pm
Roseanne Winstanley
Roseanne Winstanley Margaret and Pardie Pascoe, both RIP now, moved to Blaketown, ran the ABC cafe in Greymouth and then ran a cafe in Chch. Were friends of my parents.
Like · Reply · 2 · September 17 at 10:41pm
Irene Quy Merv Pascoe
Irene Quy Merv Pascoe not our pascoes
Like · Reply · 1 · September 17 at 10:43pm
Aileen Hore
Aileen Hore I remember a Miss Tillyshort coming to Hokitika to collect insurance money from Mum
Like · Reply · 1 · September 19 at 6:17am
Lynnette Beirne
Lynnette Beirne Miss Tillyshort used to come in her little Morris Minor and collect the insurance premiums from my parents in Hokitika
Like · Reply · 2 · September 19 at 4:13pm
Gordon McIntosh
Gordon McIntosh Lynnette Beirne I remember her coming to our place to collect insurance premiums too.
Like · Reply · 1 · September 19 at 4:14pm
Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre With that name and being rotund Gordon you would remember her
Like · Reply · September 19 at 4:17pm
Gordon McIntosh
Gordon McIntosh Ha Brian, are you talking about me or her being rotund - both fit the bill!! Lol!
Like · Reply · 1 · September 19 at 4:32pm
Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre Definitely her Gordon McIntosh
Like · Reply · September 19 at 4:56pm
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Zody Mark Tahi
Zody Mark Tahi Went in there quite a bit when my friend was renting it. Quite a neat building, lots of sneaky rooms, beautiful wooden staircase in the middle. Nice area inside the porch (inside the line of glass windows.)
Like · Reply · 2 · September 17 at 5:53pm
Colin Waterman
Colin Waterman Make good live in boarding house or B&B. Polytechnic student boarders. You could nearly make that your home and income if it had enough bed and bathrooms.
Like · Reply · 4 · September 17 at 6:02pm
Cherame Mossley
Cherame Mossley See if you could get a group of pple to invest with ya &make a good project &retirement .
Like · Reply · 1 · September 18 at 10:36pm
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Christine Farrell
Christine Farrell I think it Guerins were in it Monica comes to mind. I used to go to Gilbert house up the rd
Like · Reply · 1 · September 17 at 6:07pm
Dianne Johnson
Dianne Johnson Shame to lose such a character home. Surely someone could purchase and do a renovation. As Colin Waterman David, great for B &B or boarders.
Like · Reply · 3 · September 17 at 6:13pm
Lisa Winter
Lisa Winter Janine Morris
Like · Reply · 2 · September 17 at 9:40pm
John Greaney
John Greaney it's the Guerin's house before grandson did it up.
Like · Reply · 4 · September 17 at 9:56pm
Christine Farrell
Christine Farrell Thought so it was down ŕrom Gilberts
Like · Reply · 1 · September 18 at 6:03am
George Samuel
George Samuel was that the Guerins of broadcasting in Greymouth
Like · Reply · September 19 at 3:45pm · Edited
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Sam Bradley
Sam Bradley Party house
Like · Reply · 5 · September 17 at 10:00pm
Lynnette Beirne
Lynnette Beirne There must have been some amazing houses over the years in that area
My great grandparents lived in Alexander Terrace and once their house was pulled down the Original Greymouth Workingmens Club was built on that site
Like · Reply · 2 · September 19 at 4:22pm
Barry James
Barry James Including 65 of course Floss .
Like · Reply · 2 · Yesterday at 5:32pm
Lynnette Beirne
Lynnette Beirne Barry James yes 65 Alexander street had a few happenings there
Many happy memories for sure of living in that area
Like · Reply · 2 · Yesterday at 5:59pm
Laura Mills Detlaff
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Pete Hines
Pete Hines MarkShona Bolland
Like · Reply · 1 · September 19 at 8:05pm
MarkShona Bolland
MarkShona Bolland Hi guys
Shona Fensom and Paul Fensom owned the house in the 1990's In 1999 they sold it to a relation of the Guerins. Who painted the roof and reclad the extior It sold again not long after and has slowly gone backwards. really hard house to look after...See More
Like · Reply · 5 · September 19 at 9:46pm
Colin Waterman
Colin Waterman Eight bedrooms, Wow, that would be over a Million to build that there today. It screams buy me cheap cause im tired, Spend a few hundred k and tidy me up and i could earn you a living, Start of bike trail accomodation etc.
Like · Reply · 3 · September 19 at 10:14pm
Kylie Anisy
Kylie Anisy Colin Waterman your the man to do it.......... ;)
Like · Reply · 2 · September 19 at 10:16pm
Kelly Williams
Kelly Williams I lived there for a while in the 90s...creepy place at night ,24/7 party house
Like · Reply · September 16 at 8:22pm · Edited
Colin Waterman
Colin Waterman Did Marist brothers build it?
Like · Reply · 1 · September 16 at 8:23pm
Baybgee Tengu
Baybgee Tengu Joelene Ropiha Cherame Mossley is this the place we use to go to During school lunch brakes??
Like · Reply · 3 · September 16 at 8:32pm · Edited
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Cherame Mossley
Cherame Mossley Kelly.. do u remember much about this.. with lou? Lance?
Like · Reply · September 16 at 10:03pm
Cherame Mossley
Cherame Mossley Yes Baybgee.. wen jo used to cruz round in lance's blu escort. . They were the days ..
Like · Reply · 2 · September 16 at 10:04pm
Lance Williams
Lance Williams Way in the past that place.
Ah 40 Chapel Street would have some stories to tell.
Like · Reply · 3 · September 16 at 10:35pm
Kelly Williams
Kelly Williams Duno about that one ,40 now theres a place i know alot about lol
Like · Reply · 3 · September 17 at 8:26am
Lance Williams
Lance Williams The photo is of 40 Chapel, it's seen better days.
Like · Reply · 3 · September 17 at 8:39am
Kelly Williams
Kelly Williams Really!....though it was the place next door when Gary Gurden lived
Like · Reply · 3 · September 17 at 8:44am
Kelly Williams
Kelly Williams Pauls sister bough it and done it up last i herd ,is anyone still live there ...i could write a book on that place !
Like · Reply · 2 · September 17 at 8:47am
Jason Mather
Jason Mather Cherame Mossley that was Lance's MK2 Cortina not an escort & yes Lance should know it well as it was my place at one stage in my life including the place next door
Like · Reply · 1 · Yesterday at 10:34am
Cherame Mossley
Cherame Mossley Umm. Ok Jason. But im sure it was an escort. .light blue with louvres. . Lance.. what was it. Escort or cortina? I dont mind being wrong..... ... .. ... ..
Like · Reply · Yesterday at 10:37am
Jason Mather
Jason Mather Cherame Mossley light blue MK2 cortina with a V6 & mag wheels, i had a v6 105e anglia & Nathan Butters RIP had the other MK2 cortina with a V6 in it, all 3 of us ole amegios owned them all at the same time & used to shit talk who had the better one a w...See More
Like · Reply · 1 · Yesterday at 10:43am
Jason Mather
Jason Mather Kelly Williams Tim Stewart & i plus old Michael Manera used to live in the place next door to this place too, im sure you used to pop in to the pad when i was living there too, many partys we had in that place & many used to come in & out when they were going on
Like · Reply · 1 · Yesterday at 10:55am
Kelly Williams
Kelly Williams Yeah ,i remember Richard Stevens lived there with dean sweetman ,justin duthie....then Gary Gurden & colin,little mike and mike tompson.we ran a power cord from ours to theres all the time as the power was never on ,how i went to work everyday i will ...See More
Like · Reply · 1 · Yesterday at 11:27am · Edited
Laura Mills Detlaff
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Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre John Greaney you will know
Like · Reply · September 16 at 8:31pm
Tony Kokshoorn
Tony Kokshoorn Yes it was next door to Greaney,s Place.I think it was owned by the Gilbert Family.
Like · Reply · 3 · September 16 at 8:34pm
Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre Thanks Tony Kokshoorn
Like · Reply · 1 · September 16 at 8:35pm
Roseanne Winstanley
Roseanne Winstanley Was the Old Guerin homestead, to the left of this were the McCanns, then the Greaney's homestead. Old Jack Guerin used to look after the St Columba Hall. I have gone up that track many times to get cows milk from there on a Sunday evening. I lived nearly opposite 50s, 60s and early 70s.
Like · Reply · 3 · September 17 at 4:10pm
Colin Waterman
Colin Waterman Would love to see a floor plan of it. Was it two or three levels?
Like · Reply · September 17 at 4:15pm
Roseanne Winstanley
Roseanne Winstanley From what I can remember 3 floors, the bottom sort of a basement/storage for bikes etc. Covered the hillside. Don't know the floor plan but I went to the door at the left of the verandah and the kitchen was just inside this door.
Like · Reply · 2 · September 17 at 4:26pm
Colin Waterman
Colin Waterman Thanks Roseanne. Its just quite different isn't. Makes me wonder how it's laid out.
Like · Reply · 1 · September 17 at 4:31pm
Susann Twist
Susann Twist nobody has lived in it for the past 2 years...but looks like a squatter could be there sometimes ... as strange movements with the curtains of late
Like · Reply · 3 · September 17 at 4:32pm
Colin Waterman
Colin Waterman It's a shame the vines growing through. Unfortunately the maintenance costs are to much now days.
Like · Reply · 1 · September 17 at 4:35pm
Barry James
Barry James Is that Handbags old place Susann ?
Like · Reply · Yesterday at 5:58am
Laura Mills Detlaff
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Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre Roseanne Winstanley you might remember old Enid Tillyshort then who was opposite and off the end of Alexander St
Like · Reply · September 17 at 4:33pm
Roseanne Winstanley
Roseanne Winstanley I certainly do.
Like · Reply · September 17 at 4:44pm
Lynnette Beirne
Lynnette Beirne Miss Tillyshort used to come in her little Morris Minor and collect the insurance premiums from my parents in Hokitika
Like · Reply · 1 · September 19 at 4:11pm
Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre Thats her Lynette Lynnette Beirne
Like · Reply · September 19 at 4:12pm
Laura Mills Detlaff
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Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre Roseanne Winstanley From my life story.....DAVID TILLYSHORT
David Tillyshort, yes that was his real name, would never play cricket with us, but his Dad did have a car, a 1947 Vauxhall with that little indicator arm in the door pillar, in the middle of...See More
Like · Reply · 2 · September 17 at 4:48pm
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Roseanne Winstanley
Roseanne Winstanley Great story. From my childhood memories, Pascoes lived on the corner, then Captain and Mrs Rutter (Cnr Chapel and Alxander Tce). On the next corner down (where Erin Botica and husband lived ) there was a Mr and Mrs Bishop. Do you remember these names?
Like · Reply · 1 · September 17 at 5:00pm
Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre I remember the names but Mrs Rutter I do remember going to the races with a part roll of toilet paper with a pound note wrapped around it to make it look like a wad of money. Ha ha those were the days
Like · Reply · 1 · September 17 at 5:04pm
Irene Quy Merv Pascoe
Irene Quy Merv Pascoe Roseanne Winstanley what pascoes
Like · Reply · 1 · September 17 at 10:15pm
Roseanne Winstanley
Roseanne Winstanley Margaret and Pardie Pascoe, both RIP now, moved to Blaketown, ran the ABC cafe in Greymouth and then ran a cafe in Chch. Were friends of my parents.
Like · Reply · 2 · September 17 at 10:41pm
Irene Quy Merv Pascoe
Irene Quy Merv Pascoe not our pascoes
Like · Reply · 1 · September 17 at 10:43pm
Aileen Hore
Aileen Hore I remember a Miss Tillyshort coming to Hokitika to collect insurance money from Mum
Like · Reply · 1 · September 19 at 6:17am
Lynnette Beirne
Lynnette Beirne Miss Tillyshort used to come in her little Morris Minor and collect the insurance premiums from my parents in Hokitika
Like · Reply · 2 · September 19 at 4:13pm
Gordon McIntosh
Gordon McIntosh Lynnette Beirne I remember her coming to our place to collect insurance premiums too.
Like · Reply · 1 · September 19 at 4:14pm
Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre With that name and being rotund Gordon you would remember her
Like · Reply · September 19 at 4:17pm
Gordon McIntosh
Gordon McIntosh Ha Brian, are you talking about me or her being rotund - both fit the bill!! Lol!
Like · Reply · 1 · September 19 at 4:32pm
Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre Definitely her Gordon McIntosh
Like · Reply · September 19 at 4:56pm
Laura Mills Detlaff
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Zody Mark Tahi
Zody Mark Tahi Went in there quite a bit when my friend was renting it. Quite a neat building, lots of sneaky rooms, beautiful wooden staircase in the middle. Nice area inside the porch (inside the line of glass windows.)
Like · Reply · 2 · September 17 at 5:53pm
Colin Waterman
Colin Waterman Make good live in boarding house or B&B. Polytechnic student boarders. You could nearly make that your home and income if it had enough bed and bathrooms.
Like · Reply · 4 · September 17 at 6:02pm
Cherame Mossley
Cherame Mossley See if you could get a group of pple to invest with ya &make a good project &retirement .
Like · Reply · 1 · September 18 at 10:36pm
Laura Mills Detlaff
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Christine Farrell
Christine Farrell I think it Guerins were in it Monica comes to mind. I used to go to Gilbert house up the rd
Like · Reply · 1 · September 17 at 6:07pm
Dianne Johnson
Dianne Johnson Shame to lose such a character home. Surely someone could purchase and do a renovation. As Colin Waterman David, great for B &B or boarders.
Like · Reply · 3 · September 17 at 6:13pm
Lisa Winter
Lisa Winter Janine Morris
Like · Reply · 2 · September 17 at 9:40pm
John Greaney
John Greaney it's the Guerin's house before grandson did it up.
Like · Reply · 4 · September 17 at 9:56pm
Christine Farrell
Christine Farrell Thought so it was down ŕrom Gilberts
Like · Reply · 1 · September 18 at 6:03am
George Samuel
George Samuel was that the Guerins of broadcasting in Greymouth
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Sam Bradley
Sam Bradley Party house
Like · Reply · 5 · September 17 at 10:00pm
Lynnette Beirne
Lynnette Beirne There must have been some amazing houses over the years in that area
My great grandparents lived in Alexander Terrace and once their house was pulled down the Original Greymouth Workingmens Club was built on that site
Like · Reply · 2 · September 19 at 4:22pm
Barry James
Barry James Including 65 of course Floss .
Like · Reply · 2 · Yesterday at 5:32pm
Lynnette Beirne
Lynnette Beirne Barry James yes 65 Alexander street had a few happenings there
Many happy memories for sure of living in that area
Like · Reply · 2 · Yesterday at 5:59pm
Laura Mills Detlaff
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Pete Hines
Pete Hines MarkShona Bolland
Like · Reply · 1 · September 19 at 8:05pm
MarkShona Bolland
MarkShona Bolland Hi guys
Shona Fensom and Paul Fensom owned the house in the 1990's In 1999 they sold it to a relation of the Guerins. Who painted the roof and reclad the extior It sold again not long after and has slowly gone backwards. really hard house to look after...See More
Like · Reply · 5 · September 19 at 9:46pm
Colin Waterman
Colin Waterman Eight bedrooms, Wow, that would be over a Million to build that there today. It screams buy me cheap cause im tired, Spend a few hundred k and tidy me up and i could earn you a living, Start of bike trail accomodation etc.
Like · Reply · 3 · September 19 at 10:14pm
Kylie Anisy
Kylie Anisy Colin Waterman your the man to do it.......... ;)
Like · Reply · 2 · September 19 at 10:16pm
Kelly Williams
Kelly Williams I lived there for a while in the 90s...creepy place at night ,24/7 party house
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