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Lalor homestead, South Beach, Greymouth.
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DescriptionIn 1992 my Aunty Edith Lemon- nee Lalor- pointed out to me the old Lalor homestead out towards South Beach, in the middle of an industrial area. I have looked on subsequent visits and haven't managed to see it again. It must have been grand in its day. My grandparents, James Lalor jnr, and Rose Payn, married at the house in 1915.Date of Photo1915 -1992Map[1] ContributorMaggie Riordan
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Location (city or town)South BeachPersonEdith LemonRose PaynJames LalorLandmark (Place)Lalor homestead
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Date Created28th December 2018CommentsNormaandPat Blanchfield
My brother Frank and I used to stay there when Mum and Dad went to race meetings. Couldn’t sleep at night because of the frogs in the ponds. They croaked all night
Sandra Arnott
Knew Tommy when I was a teenager trained some of his horses for him!
Danny Milne
Kenneth Bee
Dennis Wick
Did the family have a butchery business with a shop in Blaketown?
Sandra Arnott
Dennis Wick had a butchery Nelson st as well
Mary Fenemor
Sandra Arnott did u live in Milton Rd Greymouth? My Cousins ,the 3 Girls of O'Neil, lived at number 56.
Sandra Arnott
Jill Thwaites
Gareth Delbe Thomas
Phil N Deb Campbell
Margaret Bain
Chris Kelly
How amazing the house looks dinahs in Millerton every one use tr built house together in those days
Joanne Goulding
I would so love to renovate a home like this
Phil Bargh
Joanne Goulding careful what you wish for
Tony Johnson
Joanne Goulding we did lol pretty sure it's our house
Judith Cossar
Are you sure? these was a similar house were Arnold Products are now...the Uddestroms used to live in it.
Shaun Rose
That was my play ground as a kid..people went in an ripped all the copper out pretty quick when it was left abandoned
Judith Cossar
This is Greymouth History needs to be 100% before Admin updates. This is a good site but the history mistakes about the Coast are unbelievable
Sandra Arnott
Judith Cossar grew up with this family,awesome this house was in sth beach Karoro!
Teresa Eden
Tina Ellen do you recognise this house
Lee Eden
Teresa Eden your old house
Teresa Eden
Lee Eden no but not far from our place
Shane Johnson
Not ours it was just before the overhead at Southbeach Barbara's cusion lived there
Craig Blacktopp
I remember it well also was the go to for us kids..
Ken Meadowcroft
Was it behind the M.O.W. workshop.
Sandra Arnott
Ken Meadowcroft yip and Ferguson!
Ken Meadowcroft
Sandra Arnottyes rented that house and lived there for a while. About 40 years ago.
Sharleen Murtha
Kevin Reiha this brings back memories !! I remember playing up there as a kid
Dennis Wick
I have a distant memory of a galloper named Firpo, that used to be ridden by David Walsh, was this trained by the Lalors ?
Keston Ruxton
The Lalor family I think lived in Paroa since at least the 1870's. A James Lalor was in the Paroa Road Board and Paroa School Committee in the 1870s and 1880s, and is listed living in South Beach in 1876 and with a John Lalor living in Paroa in the e late 1890s. They are both miners. A Margaret and Margaret J Lalor are also listed in South Beach at that time. One is a housekeeper and the other a dressmaker. It looks like they were from Kilkenny and James died in 1916.
Keston Ruxton
Obituary for James Lalor. It looks like the interest in the butchery business stemmed from him as he had been a butcher in Melbourne before coming to NZ. He also had a proclivity for the hoses but the obit says he was interested in trotting rather than gallops. The other thing about him was that he became a messenger in Wellington, and delivered messengers on his horse and ended up with a government pension out of it. This likely made him one of the miners helped by the Seddons, who helped a lot of other old miners in this way as well, including my three times g grandfather Hanna. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19161005.2.9?end_date=31-12-1918&items_per_page=10&phrase=2&query=james+lalor&snippet=true&sort_by=byDA&start_date=01-01-1916&title=KUMAT%2cWCT%2cGRA%2cGEST
Sandra Arnott
Knew Tommy really well he had horses at omoto years ago good fella eh,went to his house once I worked for MOW they had the buildings in the front of the house!
Phil N Deb Campbell
Yes my Nana and Grandad Lalors house
Mary Fenemor
Our Dad Super S. One of His Best Mates, Tommy Lalor ,lived there with His Mother, for Many Years .Had some of His Horses, Mares and Foals stay there, on the Land.
Erin Dense
Pretty sure its my old place lived there 17 years! Still there, grand old thing, sold it in 2020 after covid as it was too much for me on my own!
Erin Dense
2020 from the bottom of the driveway off Jack's Rd
May be an image of text that says 'B BSOLD For Sale SOLD Rob Maskill 021 762 682 Property Brokers Me Toni Curtis 021 768 747 Proud Proudtobehers tob be here'
Liz Alefosio
Love those old homes very roomy
Susan Head
Phil N Deb Campbell
Is this your grandparents home?
Looks familiar.
Kim Blanchfield
I Remember this house as a young fella .
Sharleen Murtha
We lived in the Ministry of Works house on Main Sth Road next to the depot... is this the house on the hill up the back next to the Bull Ring (where they kept all the concrete pipes)? You had to go over the railway lines to get up to it?
Margaret Bain
Yes my Nana, Margaret Lalor and her husband Tom lived there after their marriage in 1920. She continued to live there with her son Tom and I lived with them for two years 1960-62. Nana moved to ChCh to live with my mother and father, Phil and Margaret Rogers, about mid 1970's. I believe the house was burned down at some stage. It was a beautiful old place holding many happy memories
Sharleen Murtha
We lived in the Ministry of Works house on Main Sth Road next to the depot... is this the house on the hill up the back next to the Bull Ring (where they kept all the concrete pipes)? You had to go over the railway lines to get up to it?
Thomas Peter Mulligan
Grand old house
Nada Kowalski
We lived on the Main South Road for all of my young years - ‘Pig Farm Road’, The Sandbanks & the sewerage ponds were our playground. This house was always haunted to us! Great memories.
Erin Dense
Pretty sure its my old place - lived there 17 years! Still there, grand old thing, sold it in 2020 after covid as it was too much for me on my own!
Kiri Baxter
My gosh an old railway house
Margaret Bain
Yes my Nana, Margaret Lalor and her husband Tom lived there after their marriage in 1920. She continued to live there with her son Tom and I lived with them for two years 1960-62. Nana moved to ChCh to live with my mother and father, Phil and Margaret Rogers, about mid 1970's. I believe the house was burned down at some stage. It was a beautiful old place holding many happy memories
Shaun Rose
I grew up with it behind my parents house..it got abandoned and got trashed probably late 80s
Elizabeth Mehrtens
I member it well in its hay day would of been one of the most beautiful homes around
Mark Burgess
Was this on the hill above Tony Crofts yard ?
Albie Rose
Was behind where bidvest is across the railway line went late 80s
Trish Rennie
I think Leonie Uddstrom may have lived here at some time also….used to help with animal rescue…perhaps SPCA?
Sue McCallum
Trish Rennie yes I remember the uddstroms there brought from I’m tryin to remember my brothers firmer girl friends parents lived there youngest daughter rode a horse Show jumping called Rusty and Leonie Uddstrom and Hub took over the leased paddocks on beach side of the house Leonie had a X bred mare Mandy she trained to drag beach wood up to the house
Trish Rennie
Sue McCallum the daughter’s name is Cindy…
Elizabeth-Ross Edwards
Looks like a railway house
Mary Fenemor
We use to visit this House , when Tommy was living in thete with His Mother. This about in 1960s.Tommy & Dad , Super S. were great Mates in the Horse Racing Game ? Tommy use to have His Horses with their Foals ,in next Paddocks.
Margaret Bain
My Nana's house we had some great times there. Such a shame to see 'progress!'
My brother Frank and I used to stay there when Mum and Dad went to race meetings. Couldn’t sleep at night because of the frogs in the ponds. They croaked all night
Sandra Arnott
Knew Tommy when I was a teenager trained some of his horses for him!
Danny Milne
Kenneth Bee
Dennis Wick
Did the family have a butchery business with a shop in Blaketown?
Sandra Arnott
Dennis Wick had a butchery Nelson st as well
Mary Fenemor
Sandra Arnott did u live in Milton Rd Greymouth? My Cousins ,the 3 Girls of O'Neil, lived at number 56.
Sandra Arnott
Jill Thwaites
Gareth Delbe Thomas
Phil N Deb Campbell
Margaret Bain
Chris Kelly
How amazing the house looks dinahs in Millerton every one use tr built house together in those days
Joanne Goulding
I would so love to renovate a home like this
Phil Bargh
Joanne Goulding careful what you wish for
Tony Johnson
Joanne Goulding we did lol pretty sure it's our house
Judith Cossar
Are you sure? these was a similar house were Arnold Products are now...the Uddestroms used to live in it.
Shaun Rose
That was my play ground as a kid..people went in an ripped all the copper out pretty quick when it was left abandoned
Judith Cossar
This is Greymouth History needs to be 100% before Admin updates. This is a good site but the history mistakes about the Coast are unbelievable
Sandra Arnott
Judith Cossar grew up with this family,awesome this house was in sth beach Karoro!
Teresa Eden
Tina Ellen do you recognise this house
Lee Eden
Teresa Eden your old house
Teresa Eden
Lee Eden no but not far from our place
Shane Johnson
Not ours it was just before the overhead at Southbeach Barbara's cusion lived there
Craig Blacktopp
I remember it well also was the go to for us kids..
Ken Meadowcroft
Was it behind the M.O.W. workshop.
Sandra Arnott
Ken Meadowcroft yip and Ferguson!
Ken Meadowcroft
Sandra Arnottyes rented that house and lived there for a while. About 40 years ago.
Sharleen Murtha
Kevin Reiha this brings back memories !! I remember playing up there as a kid
Dennis Wick
I have a distant memory of a galloper named Firpo, that used to be ridden by David Walsh, was this trained by the Lalors ?
Keston Ruxton
The Lalor family I think lived in Paroa since at least the 1870's. A James Lalor was in the Paroa Road Board and Paroa School Committee in the 1870s and 1880s, and is listed living in South Beach in 1876 and with a John Lalor living in Paroa in the e late 1890s. They are both miners. A Margaret and Margaret J Lalor are also listed in South Beach at that time. One is a housekeeper and the other a dressmaker. It looks like they were from Kilkenny and James died in 1916.
Keston Ruxton
Obituary for James Lalor. It looks like the interest in the butchery business stemmed from him as he had been a butcher in Melbourne before coming to NZ. He also had a proclivity for the hoses but the obit says he was interested in trotting rather than gallops. The other thing about him was that he became a messenger in Wellington, and delivered messengers on his horse and ended up with a government pension out of it. This likely made him one of the miners helped by the Seddons, who helped a lot of other old miners in this way as well, including my three times g grandfather Hanna. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19161005.2.9?end_date=31-12-1918&items_per_page=10&phrase=2&query=james+lalor&snippet=true&sort_by=byDA&start_date=01-01-1916&title=KUMAT%2cWCT%2cGRA%2cGEST
Sandra Arnott
Knew Tommy really well he had horses at omoto years ago good fella eh,went to his house once I worked for MOW they had the buildings in the front of the house!
Phil N Deb Campbell
Yes my Nana and Grandad Lalors house
Mary Fenemor
Our Dad Super S. One of His Best Mates, Tommy Lalor ,lived there with His Mother, for Many Years .Had some of His Horses, Mares and Foals stay there, on the Land.
Erin Dense
Pretty sure its my old place lived there 17 years! Still there, grand old thing, sold it in 2020 after covid as it was too much for me on my own!
Erin Dense
2020 from the bottom of the driveway off Jack's Rd
May be an image of text that says 'B BSOLD For Sale SOLD Rob Maskill 021 762 682 Property Brokers Me Toni Curtis 021 768 747 Proud Proudtobehers tob be here'
Liz Alefosio
Love those old homes very roomy
Susan Head
Phil N Deb Campbell
Is this your grandparents home?
Looks familiar.
Kim Blanchfield
I Remember this house as a young fella .
Sharleen Murtha
We lived in the Ministry of Works house on Main Sth Road next to the depot... is this the house on the hill up the back next to the Bull Ring (where they kept all the concrete pipes)? You had to go over the railway lines to get up to it?
Margaret Bain
Yes my Nana, Margaret Lalor and her husband Tom lived there after their marriage in 1920. She continued to live there with her son Tom and I lived with them for two years 1960-62. Nana moved to ChCh to live with my mother and father, Phil and Margaret Rogers, about mid 1970's. I believe the house was burned down at some stage. It was a beautiful old place holding many happy memories
Sharleen Murtha
We lived in the Ministry of Works house on Main Sth Road next to the depot... is this the house on the hill up the back next to the Bull Ring (where they kept all the concrete pipes)? You had to go over the railway lines to get up to it?
Thomas Peter Mulligan
Grand old house
Nada Kowalski
We lived on the Main South Road for all of my young years - ‘Pig Farm Road’, The Sandbanks & the sewerage ponds were our playground. This house was always haunted to us! Great memories.
Erin Dense
Pretty sure its my old place - lived there 17 years! Still there, grand old thing, sold it in 2020 after covid as it was too much for me on my own!
Kiri Baxter
My gosh an old railway house
Margaret Bain
Yes my Nana, Margaret Lalor and her husband Tom lived there after their marriage in 1920. She continued to live there with her son Tom and I lived with them for two years 1960-62. Nana moved to ChCh to live with my mother and father, Phil and Margaret Rogers, about mid 1970's. I believe the house was burned down at some stage. It was a beautiful old place holding many happy memories
Shaun Rose
I grew up with it behind my parents house..it got abandoned and got trashed probably late 80s
Elizabeth Mehrtens
I member it well in its hay day would of been one of the most beautiful homes around
Mark Burgess
Was this on the hill above Tony Crofts yard ?
Albie Rose
Was behind where bidvest is across the railway line went late 80s
Trish Rennie
I think Leonie Uddstrom may have lived here at some time also….used to help with animal rescue…perhaps SPCA?
Sue McCallum
Trish Rennie yes I remember the uddstroms there brought from I’m tryin to remember my brothers firmer girl friends parents lived there youngest daughter rode a horse Show jumping called Rusty and Leonie Uddstrom and Hub took over the leased paddocks on beach side of the house Leonie had a X bred mare Mandy she trained to drag beach wood up to the house
Trish Rennie
Sue McCallum the daughter’s name is Cindy…
Elizabeth-Ross Edwards
Looks like a railway house
Mary Fenemor
We use to visit this House , when Tommy was living in thete with His Mother. This about in 1960s.Tommy & Dad , Super S. were great Mates in the Horse Racing Game ? Tommy use to have His Horses with their Foals ,in next Paddocks.
Margaret Bain
My Nana's house we had some great times there. Such a shame to see 'progress!'
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West Coast New Zealand History (3rd Dec 2025). Lalor homestead, South Beach, Greymouth.. In Website West Coast New Zealand History. Retrieved 24th Apr 2026 02:22, from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/24459