Runanga.1908.

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DescriptionRunanga Township.

Alexander Turnbull Library. Grey.Co. Ref.no. 17692. 1/2Date of Photo1908.Map^[1]ContributorHeather Newby

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Date Created16th June 2019CommentsBrian McIntyre Ray Shaw

Joan Gollan The Presbyterian church. Went to Sunday School there.

Trish Rennie Rowena Dunn

Rowena Dunn Our house was on holy ground

Brian McIntyre Rowena Dunn did you fix that

Rowena Dunn Brian McIntyre probably lol. Our previous house is where the church was...we've moved to Greymouth.

Bill Johnsen so that is Ward Street ?

Janice Oconnor Yes

Geoffrey Bell No sign of people or transport. A lot of these early photos of small towns showed no sign of life.

Richard Pope Sunday morning?

Phyllis Aberhart The men would've been down the mines, their wives busy doing housework without any modern appliances

Heather Newby i remember it was horriby hot in our kitchen in the summertime because the coal range was going all day because we didn`t have an electric stove

Brian McIntyre Same at our home in Greymouth too Heather

Richard Pope Heather Newby Not so nice in a small house, I bet.

Heather Newby Richard Pope no.. and the walls were always dirty from the coal dust.

Richard Pope Heather Newby Friends had a big house in Sandys St, Blackball, high ceilings make such a difference.

Trish Leckie Great early photo

Cliff Thomas i was brought up in Runanga in the 50s

Jack N Pat Manderson Probably all at church. From memory 3 churches up that hill. The Presbyterian,Methodist ,& Anglican. I went to Sunday school at the Presbyterian and life Boys at the Methodist church.

Margaret Trail my grandparents jams and agnes wilson. they lived at 66 pit street. the house is still there,

Cathy Howat This is how my maternal great granparents, Danny and Jean Syme would have seen it. He was a miner, Jeannie was District Nurse from about 1916 to 1948

Mel Higson My grandparents lived at 12 Mills street in Runanga,I thnk the old house is stil there,my dad grew up on Ranfurley street.

Les Holmes Germanicus This 1908.

Geoff More Does anyone recall the Lovettes/daughter name beatrice

Yvonne Lawson We lived behind the church through the bush. Had a track through bush from church to ours. That house by church Greys lived in.

Rowena Dunn Would that be the house the Duncan's live in now on Duncan St?

Yvonne Lawson Rowena Dunn sorry don’t know who lives there now. Lynette ? And her husband brought it off Mum and Dad. That’s a long time ago. It’s painted yellow and blue now.

Rowena Dunn Yvonne Lawson Lynette & Peter Duncan...they've been there for about 25 years

Yvonne Lawson Rowena Dunn Lynette was my sister Glenys bridesmaid.

Corinne Ord That's Eddie Grays house next to the church
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