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Children blackberrying, Westport 1940.
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DescriptionNelson Provincial Museum Neville Lewers Collection.
Photo 1: 325136
Photo 2: 325133PhotographerNeville LewersDate of Photo1940Map[1] ContributorMaye Dunn
Photo 1: 325136
Photo 2: 325133PhotographerNeville LewersDate of Photo1940Map[1] ContributorMaye Dunn
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Date Created17th June 2019CommentsVern Pattinson: The good old days
Kath Merv Moreton: Used to love blackberrying around Dobson
Moi Mclaughlin: Kids today won't understand this a BlackBerry to them would be an older cellphone. Loved blackberrying.
Judy Tawhiti: Good old Dobson days,loved BlackBerry picking and mushroom picking up the slay hills,we called Gillmans farm.
Ed Dando: Judy Tawhiti true
Sandra Geddes: Yip loved those days!
Rosalie Tobeck: Yes judy same x
Anne Honey Used to go blackberrying with my grandmother on the tailings at blackball oh the jam.
Craig Smith: Bit of a dying practice the old blackberrying. Not around like it used to be and people just dont do home made jams as much either.
Trish Carroll: Still make jams but blackberrys that haven't been sprayed harder to find.
Anne Honey: The frozen ones don't taste the same
Julie Easton: I loved getting blackberries. My Nana would make a pie and jelly.
Alison Syder: those were the days late 50's Marsden Valley
Suzanne Buckley: One of my favorite memories of Cobden, going Blackberry picking every year with Mum and siblings. YummyMyron Caldwell Our Scottish and Yorkshire neighbour offered us some brambles which was their name for blackberries.
Lyubov Sergeevna Nesterenko: Wendy Williams
Janice Oconnor: And blackberry jelly
Sandra Sands: We used to sell them for pocket money
Sue Vaukins: I can remember going blackberry picking with mum.
Leslie Connor: ONLY ON THE WEST COAST blackberry jelly jam aunt esliee had us picking blackberry when in blackball or runanga
Elizabeth Cartwright: Once a year we went blackberry picking with mum and the she would make the most delicious blackberry and apple pie.
Marilyn Grady:In the early days we could pick blackberries along the main road,
John Hunt: I recall Grandma sending a letter to say blackberries ready and we would trip over the hill to pick them. Go home scratched but lots of berries a picked at back boundary towards gold sluching stacks. Good days
Mata Holliday: When we lived at Lake Paringa our grandchildren came from Australia to visit and we took them blackberrying they just loved it and same as most children most were eaten on the spot. Wonderful memories
Bill Gilmour: Picked them at reefton.great jam and jelly.yum
Katarina Leaf-Dobbs: Same here, my Aunty made awesome jam
Ray Port: One for the bucket ,one in my tummy...lol..that was how it worked
Deborah Marley: I took my little spanielx dog with me and I would pick black berry's and he would upset the possums...mum always made blackberry and blackberry and apple jelly ..then with the pulp she would make blackberry and apple pie....I followed in her footsteps and made em all for my family....and still do.
Deborah Marley: I still do it....my kids would help me....for 5 mins
Bob Laing: Mum used to have us Blackberrying each year. There are four of us children, all nearing 70 these days so I suppose we ate heaps and BBs were free. We used to pick them by the kerosene tin full. Mum made BB and apple pies, we had them with ice cream and Mum made large numbers of jars of blackberry jelly
Some of the good old days
Debbie Ansett: We all did this and Mum made blackberry and apple jelly.
Leeanne Sneddon: Debbie Ansett get the buckets out
Debbie Ansett: Leeanne Sneddon
David Adamson: The best blackberry picking I ever did was with our family, and that of my cousin Michael Rose, on the the dredge tailings near Blackball. It was a beautiful, clear, warm day. Because there was no soil, the bushes were not bushes. Each plant was alone, sticking up from between the stones, so you could get at it all around and pick off all the berries without having to reach into a mass of prickly canes. We filled every container we had to the brim and then some. Needless to say two of those containers were the stomachs of myself and my cousin (we had no unfortunate gastric upsets following this event, as I recall).
Bev Freitas: Nova Elizabeth Hichens
Ruth Walsh
We ate more,than went home
Nova Elizabeth Hichens: imagine how many grubs we ate.
Bev Freitas: And was awful if we ate a grub,
Jean Keenan: enjoyed blackberry picking then making jelly.
Sue Beatrice: Oh yes, the best memories; blackberry picking with mum and dad and also with my own kids. Now I grow a prolific thornless blackberry in my own yard and enjoy all the delicious treats my mother used to make..
Tony John I remember blackberry picking too. A nice family activity and of course, blackberry pie and jam.
Yvonne Lawson: We used to get lots of blackberries between our place and Dalziel next door. Also up by the railway lines in Runanga.
Brian McIntyre: Cobden Beach road was my picking spot until it was all sprayed to death
Helen Joan Forrest: Those were the days. Mum and Dad knew where to go. A great time out gathering
Pam Englefield-Absolum: Poerua River banks.
Don Pearson: Used to go blackberring along the railway line near the Karoro Railway station.
Annitta Hodgkinson: My darling hubby climbs through wild blackberry bushes to pick me a big handful every year
Robert Wilson: isnt it sad thats when there was blackberries,,mushrooms,frogs,wild apple trees,rassberrys,we had cubby spots everywere,allways had a pocket full of passion fruit or something like,,
Paulette F Clark: Best black berries on the whole world are picked along the railway track outside Otira.
Kath Merv Moreton: Used to love blackberrying around Dobson
Moi Mclaughlin: Kids today won't understand this a BlackBerry to them would be an older cellphone. Loved blackberrying.
Judy Tawhiti: Good old Dobson days,loved BlackBerry picking and mushroom picking up the slay hills,we called Gillmans farm.
Ed Dando: Judy Tawhiti true
Sandra Geddes: Yip loved those days!
Rosalie Tobeck: Yes judy same x
Anne Honey Used to go blackberrying with my grandmother on the tailings at blackball oh the jam.
Craig Smith: Bit of a dying practice the old blackberrying. Not around like it used to be and people just dont do home made jams as much either.
Trish Carroll: Still make jams but blackberrys that haven't been sprayed harder to find.
Anne Honey: The frozen ones don't taste the same
Julie Easton: I loved getting blackberries. My Nana would make a pie and jelly.
Alison Syder: those were the days late 50's Marsden Valley
Suzanne Buckley: One of my favorite memories of Cobden, going Blackberry picking every year with Mum and siblings. YummyMyron Caldwell Our Scottish and Yorkshire neighbour offered us some brambles which was their name for blackberries.
Lyubov Sergeevna Nesterenko: Wendy Williams
Janice Oconnor: And blackberry jelly
Sandra Sands: We used to sell them for pocket money
Sue Vaukins: I can remember going blackberry picking with mum.
Leslie Connor: ONLY ON THE WEST COAST blackberry jelly jam aunt esliee had us picking blackberry when in blackball or runanga
Elizabeth Cartwright: Once a year we went blackberry picking with mum and the she would make the most delicious blackberry and apple pie.
Marilyn Grady:In the early days we could pick blackberries along the main road,
John Hunt: I recall Grandma sending a letter to say blackberries ready and we would trip over the hill to pick them. Go home scratched but lots of berries a picked at back boundary towards gold sluching stacks. Good days
Mata Holliday: When we lived at Lake Paringa our grandchildren came from Australia to visit and we took them blackberrying they just loved it and same as most children most were eaten on the spot. Wonderful memories
Bill Gilmour: Picked them at reefton.great jam and jelly.yum
Katarina Leaf-Dobbs: Same here, my Aunty made awesome jam
Ray Port: One for the bucket ,one in my tummy...lol..that was how it worked
Deborah Marley: I took my little spanielx dog with me and I would pick black berry's and he would upset the possums...mum always made blackberry and blackberry and apple jelly ..then with the pulp she would make blackberry and apple pie....I followed in her footsteps and made em all for my family....and still do.
Deborah Marley: I still do it....my kids would help me....for 5 mins
Bob Laing: Mum used to have us Blackberrying each year. There are four of us children, all nearing 70 these days so I suppose we ate heaps and BBs were free. We used to pick them by the kerosene tin full. Mum made BB and apple pies, we had them with ice cream and Mum made large numbers of jars of blackberry jelly
Some of the good old days
Debbie Ansett: We all did this and Mum made blackberry and apple jelly.
Leeanne Sneddon: Debbie Ansett get the buckets out
Debbie Ansett: Leeanne Sneddon
David Adamson: The best blackberry picking I ever did was with our family, and that of my cousin Michael Rose, on the the dredge tailings near Blackball. It was a beautiful, clear, warm day. Because there was no soil, the bushes were not bushes. Each plant was alone, sticking up from between the stones, so you could get at it all around and pick off all the berries without having to reach into a mass of prickly canes. We filled every container we had to the brim and then some. Needless to say two of those containers were the stomachs of myself and my cousin (we had no unfortunate gastric upsets following this event, as I recall).
Bev Freitas: Nova Elizabeth Hichens
Ruth Walsh
We ate more,than went home
Nova Elizabeth Hichens: imagine how many grubs we ate.
Bev Freitas: And was awful if we ate a grub,
Jean Keenan: enjoyed blackberry picking then making jelly.
Sue Beatrice: Oh yes, the best memories; blackberry picking with mum and dad and also with my own kids. Now I grow a prolific thornless blackberry in my own yard and enjoy all the delicious treats my mother used to make..
Tony John I remember blackberry picking too. A nice family activity and of course, blackberry pie and jam.
Yvonne Lawson: We used to get lots of blackberries between our place and Dalziel next door. Also up by the railway lines in Runanga.
Brian McIntyre: Cobden Beach road was my picking spot until it was all sprayed to death
Helen Joan Forrest: Those were the days. Mum and Dad knew where to go. A great time out gathering
Pam Englefield-Absolum: Poerua River banks.
Don Pearson: Used to go blackberring along the railway line near the Karoro Railway station.
Annitta Hodgkinson: My darling hubby climbs through wild blackberry bushes to pick me a big handful every year
Robert Wilson: isnt it sad thats when there was blackberries,,mushrooms,frogs,wild apple trees,rassberrys,we had cubby spots everywere,allways had a pocket full of passion fruit or something like,,
Paulette F Clark: Best black berries on the whole world are picked along the railway track outside Otira.
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