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Date Created21st May 2018CommentsAve Muir Was a real community. Remember bits, dad was in the sawmill. Tip Routhan. Got too cold for us, so we moved to Cameron’s
Claire WardClaire and 7 others manage the membership, moderators, settings, and posts for West Coast New-Zealand history. Do you happen to have any photos of your time there, & Camerons?
Ave Muir Claire Ward Sorry no. I was about 4, can remember my brother and sisters walking over the bridge in the frost. Think we lived opposite the tennis courts. Was about 1954
Marilyn Paterson Interesting, given that this Thursday is the 50th Anniversary of the earthquake.!
Betty ChapmanBetty and 105 others joined West Coast New-Zealand history within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community! Thinking of all of u at at the unveiling of 50 ur Anniversary of EQ
Betty ChapmanBetty and 105 others joined West Coast New-Zealand history within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community! In Particular the families that lost their loved one's The Jackson family
taxi driver in Greymouth and the two families of the helicopter drivers that lost their lives when working on the power lines
Stay strong everyone
Peter Westwood The service on Thursday is that at the Junction or Westport, can someone tell me
Betty ChapmanBetty and 105 others joined West Coast New-Zealand history within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community! Peter Westwood
Claire WardClaire and 7 others manage the membership, moderators, settings, and posts for West Coast New-Zealand history. The Museum at Inangahua.
Peter Westwood Claire Ward thank you very much .
Betty ChapmanBetty and 105 others joined West Coast New-Zealand history within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community! I had a reporter ring me 2day and he was asking me if any of the ex Inangahua folk now living in Chch want 2 have a quick catch up
on the eve of the EQ i.e
Wed evening around 7ish...See More
June Williams Gosh Marilyn Paterson it doesn't seem like 50 years.
Betty ChapmanBetty and 105 others joined West Coast New-Zealand history within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community! It does for us Inangahua folk now living in Chch as we have gone thro 2 E Q's In Sept 4 . 2010 it bought all the memories of the Inangahua quake back like it was yesterday. There eere differencrs tho i dont recall liquifaction but I do remember lar...See More
June Williams We were living in Hokitika when the Inangahua Earthquake happened Betty. I remember seeing a photo in the paper of a car near Reefton backing out of a garage and a sinkhole had opened right behind the car. We are now also in Christchurch so have also been through the Canterbury quakes.
Marilyn Paterson When we had the quake of Sept 2010, I told people that I had experienced big quakes before, they could hardly believe me. It is true though, fifty years is a long time, but you never forget a morning like that one!
June Williams It is embedded in my memory. I had my foot in plaster. Had come out of hospital the day before.
Marilyn Paterson June Williams embedded in mine as well, as is 4th Sept 2010 and Feb 22nd 2011!
Jenny Caldwell My mother was in Grey hospital for surgery and tells of seeing lights swaying and parts of the ceiling dropping. Magnitude wise it was stronger than Canterbury's. Mrs Rona Jackson who was killed by the big rock, used to live opposite us at the Junction. I was well away in Auckland at the time. Myron Caldwell.
June Williams I think in a strange sort of way being in that quake helped me cope with the Christchurch quakes.
Betty ChapmanBetty and 105 others joined West Coast New-Zealand history within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community! Yes you are right 2 a certain extent but we were also very aware that E.Q.dont come and go like other disasters They stick around for quite a while afterwards. As we all know you cannot start the rebuilding like after other disasters
You have 2 wait for quite some time until the earth settles itself down !!!
All disasters are just terrible but we are all still here.
As mentioned before 4 folk are not here due 2 the Inangahua quake
R I P to those families
Janette Schroeder I remember going there with my grandad......and visiting the Stuart's next door.....wonder who the 3 boys in the window are?
Manage
Betty ChapmanBetty and 105 others joined West Coast New-Zealand history within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community! Yes i remember the Stuarts house next 2 pub as well
Leslie Stuart was at Inangahua primary school at the same time as I was there
He was a couple of classes of me
Grant McAlpine I lived across the road from Scotty Clark's hotel in the general store in 1942.
Jenny Caldwell Grant McAlpine. I am old enough to recall the McAlpine name from the Junction. We also lived in the same shop while at primary school. That proves that we are quite old, but our memories haven't entirely deserted us. What a flash back 1942. Myron Caldwell.
John Rosanowski As young kids we used to get on the football bus (driven by our Uncle Charlie) to go out to watch the Reefton team, Cronadun, take on the Inangahua Jnctn team. They were hotly contested matches. Grandad Ladner was the sort-of manager of Cronadun and he used to bring out glasses of fizzy raspberry for us as we played around outside the pub during the after-match drinks. Got home late some nights !!
Ian A Cox I remember the earth quake in Greymouth I woke up to find only me in the bedroom the rest of the family were in the hallway under the door frame I was in the bottom bunk so they left me there. Lots of chimneys had to be taken down as no longer safe ours included.
Claire WardClaire and 7 others manage the membership, moderators, settings, and posts for West Coast New-Zealand history. Do you happen to have any photos of your time there, & Camerons?
Ave Muir Claire Ward Sorry no. I was about 4, can remember my brother and sisters walking over the bridge in the frost. Think we lived opposite the tennis courts. Was about 1954
Marilyn Paterson Interesting, given that this Thursday is the 50th Anniversary of the earthquake.!
Betty ChapmanBetty and 105 others joined West Coast New-Zealand history within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community! Thinking of all of u at at the unveiling of 50 ur Anniversary of EQ
Betty ChapmanBetty and 105 others joined West Coast New-Zealand history within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community! In Particular the families that lost their loved one's The Jackson family
taxi driver in Greymouth and the two families of the helicopter drivers that lost their lives when working on the power lines
Stay strong everyone
Peter Westwood The service on Thursday is that at the Junction or Westport, can someone tell me
Betty ChapmanBetty and 105 others joined West Coast New-Zealand history within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community! Peter Westwood
Claire WardClaire and 7 others manage the membership, moderators, settings, and posts for West Coast New-Zealand history. The Museum at Inangahua.
Peter Westwood Claire Ward thank you very much .
Betty ChapmanBetty and 105 others joined West Coast New-Zealand history within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community! I had a reporter ring me 2day and he was asking me if any of the ex Inangahua folk now living in Chch want 2 have a quick catch up
on the eve of the EQ i.e
Wed evening around 7ish...See More
June Williams Gosh Marilyn Paterson it doesn't seem like 50 years.
Betty ChapmanBetty and 105 others joined West Coast New-Zealand history within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community! It does for us Inangahua folk now living in Chch as we have gone thro 2 E Q's In Sept 4 . 2010 it bought all the memories of the Inangahua quake back like it was yesterday. There eere differencrs tho i dont recall liquifaction but I do remember lar...See More
June Williams We were living in Hokitika when the Inangahua Earthquake happened Betty. I remember seeing a photo in the paper of a car near Reefton backing out of a garage and a sinkhole had opened right behind the car. We are now also in Christchurch so have also been through the Canterbury quakes.
Marilyn Paterson When we had the quake of Sept 2010, I told people that I had experienced big quakes before, they could hardly believe me. It is true though, fifty years is a long time, but you never forget a morning like that one!
June Williams It is embedded in my memory. I had my foot in plaster. Had come out of hospital the day before.
Marilyn Paterson June Williams embedded in mine as well, as is 4th Sept 2010 and Feb 22nd 2011!
Jenny Caldwell My mother was in Grey hospital for surgery and tells of seeing lights swaying and parts of the ceiling dropping. Magnitude wise it was stronger than Canterbury's. Mrs Rona Jackson who was killed by the big rock, used to live opposite us at the Junction. I was well away in Auckland at the time. Myron Caldwell.
June Williams I think in a strange sort of way being in that quake helped me cope with the Christchurch quakes.
Betty ChapmanBetty and 105 others joined West Coast New-Zealand history within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community! Yes you are right 2 a certain extent but we were also very aware that E.Q.dont come and go like other disasters They stick around for quite a while afterwards. As we all know you cannot start the rebuilding like after other disasters
You have 2 wait for quite some time until the earth settles itself down !!!
All disasters are just terrible but we are all still here.
As mentioned before 4 folk are not here due 2 the Inangahua quake
R I P to those families
Janette Schroeder I remember going there with my grandad......and visiting the Stuart's next door.....wonder who the 3 boys in the window are?
Manage
Betty ChapmanBetty and 105 others joined West Coast New-Zealand history within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community! Yes i remember the Stuarts house next 2 pub as well
Leslie Stuart was at Inangahua primary school at the same time as I was there
He was a couple of classes of me
Grant McAlpine I lived across the road from Scotty Clark's hotel in the general store in 1942.
Jenny Caldwell Grant McAlpine. I am old enough to recall the McAlpine name from the Junction. We also lived in the same shop while at primary school. That proves that we are quite old, but our memories haven't entirely deserted us. What a flash back 1942. Myron Caldwell.
John Rosanowski As young kids we used to get on the football bus (driven by our Uncle Charlie) to go out to watch the Reefton team, Cronadun, take on the Inangahua Jnctn team. They were hotly contested matches. Grandad Ladner was the sort-of manager of Cronadun and he used to bring out glasses of fizzy raspberry for us as we played around outside the pub during the after-match drinks. Got home late some nights !!
Ian A Cox I remember the earth quake in Greymouth I woke up to find only me in the bedroom the rest of the family were in the hallway under the door frame I was in the bottom bunk so they left me there. Lots of chimneys had to be taken down as no longer safe ours included.
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