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This is No.40 as it is today and when i was a kid from 1950s it was the Airns [ Liz Airns ] family home .A son Jock [ i think his name was] a lovey man lived on here until he died..It didnt have the porch right across the front then just a small one over the door.The Smith.s lived maybe 36 or 38 one of the 2 cottages.
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April Jarden
This is the house now on No.36 which has been altered and extended over the years. Next door No.38 is no more.Date of Photo1960'sMap[1] Contributor Moe Bowes
This is No.40 as it is today and when i was a kid from 1950s it was the Airns [ Liz Airns ] family home .A son Jock [ i think his name was] a lovey man lived on here until he died..It didnt have the porch right across the front then just a small one over the door.The Smith.s lived maybe 36 or 38 one of the 2 cottages.
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April Jarden
This is the house now on No.36 which has been altered and extended over the years. Next door No.38 is no more.Date of Photo1960'sMap[1] Contributor Moe Bowes
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Date Created17th December 2019CommentsLinzi Woods: Road looks sealed my guess ( a semi educated one at best on a dark cold and frosty night with the sombre glow of a small candle) early 60's.
Carol Scott: Sandra Teasdale this could be taken from your place!
Sandra Teasdale: Carol Scott looks like it! Halfway down the hill I’d say
Carol Scott Is that Franks old pink Austin A70 parked at Nana and Grandads.
Carol Scott: That would definitely make it around the 60’s
Marlana QuyZ: Sandra Teasdale oh the memories I used to play up that hill with Ruth Teasdale . Name far forgotten till I seen this post. Great view from up there
Sandra Teasdale: Marlana Quy I live up there now and it’s great.
Kevin Waters: Taken from Teasdale’s hill. We lived in house bottom right. Date. Maybe early 2000’s ?
Rowena Dunn: It would be much earlier than that as the house far right with the red car outside (Basil & Nell Smith's house), has a fence around it which was built in the early 1990's.
Maye Dunn: My grandparents house on Cromarty St just missed the cut.
Trish Rennie: I would say about early 60's as the colour and condition of the houses are as I remember them and the older cottages in McDougall Ave are not renovated...
Christine Farrell: I though 60s-70s
Helen Brennan: Auntie Nellie & Uncle Bass Smiths house is there Maye now there’s a big brick fence around it.
Maye Dunn Yes Helen it was a great neighbourhood back then, Everyone looked out for each other.
Margaret Newton Alley: Helen Brennan I remember going to their house, loved it, Aunty Nellie had the best sense of humor.
Rowena Dunn; Margaret Newton Alley Basil & Nell were wonderful neighbours
Merv Cate: 24/12/64 I can just see dad driving home up Inverness street after us boys just had a no 1 haircut, the back door opened on his vi and we nearly fell out going around the corner by the hall, lol
Helen Cording: I would say the 60s too i remember the pub being that colour when mum and dad had it .
Florence Gunn: Lovely to see house where we grew up right in front. 45 Hall Jones street. Johnny McPhee lived across the road. Think maybe before that Kevin
Lana Vargas I was just thinking the same thing Maye. I said to myself”where’s Nanas house?” Lol
Lorraine O'Donoghue: Lyell Stewart
Yvonne Lawson: My place of birth.
Sandra Hosgood: Keith Smith Cromarty Street off to the right our house out of shot though. Its a great photo.
Chris Burles Mid-late 60s.
Robin Gibbens Cars say mid -60s
Lana Vargas Definitely 40’s or 50’s. My aunty mollie lived on Inverness street in the fifties. The house she had was different than any there in this photo. More modern
Manage
Maye Dunn Lana I think it is later than that. If you blow the photo up the car parked outside Basil Smiths looks like a 1960's model maybe an Anglia or something similar.
George Waters Mid to late 1950s as Tom Durkin built a small resident to live in at back of our house and over towards road
George McKenzie I suggest it may have been taken after 1961 (the year I left Dunolie). Reason being: The Spring Creek (Hendies as we used to call it!) road had not been formed fully at that stage. The road only went around to the old police station house. Unwin's, Pattinson's and the single men's huts.
Dorothy Wills
A lovely picture my grandparents had a house in Herd Street can’t remember the number my mother and I used to take a bus to Greymouth from Marcia then a train to Dunolli and walk under the overhead bridge to Herd Street, their house was up quite a stee… See More
Christine Dwyer
Dorothy Wills I was looking at the 1928 Electoral roll on Ancestry and found several Hewisons who lived in Herd St at that time - Sydney, Richard, Minnie and Margaret. Was speaking with Bill Hewison (Runanga) and he confirmed they were relatives of his.
Helen Cording
Trish Rennie Trish has that photo been on before .
April Jarden
Helen Cording A photo very similar or maybe it was this one appeared a few years ago.I loved it as showed my family home which sadly burnt down.
Trish Rennie
Not that I'm aware of....Helen Helen Cording
April Jarden
Judy Smolen Can you or Joy remember what number your Gran Eliza Kay had her home on.I think it was 42 remember it as a Villa with double windows each side of the front door and porch across the front.The dairy she had there was in a front room.Number 4… See More
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Carol Cook
April Jarden I think I remember Fenton Kay serving in that shop.
Did the Aiens family nit live in Inverness St and the grandmother and bachelor uncle in McDougal Ave?
April Jarden
Carol Cook Thats right ,Fenton lived there with his Mother and then married Julie {sons John and Lenin } The Airns familys other sons,{ Mollys husband and Abe married to Doris ] lived on Inverness Street.
Christine Dwyer
April Jarden The picture of Dunollie in 2017 which is on this site shows the house at 42 which no longer has a dwelling on it https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/5616?keywords=dunollie&type=all&highlights=eyIwIjoiZHVub2xsaWUuIiwiMiI6ImR1bm9sbG… See More
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April Jarden
Christine Dwyer Umm i think the date should be !917 lol That is pretty much as i remember that side of the street. I lived on Sutherland St as a child.
Trish Rennie
Ernie Smith and his wife lived at 40 McDougal Ave...he lost his life in the Strongman mine disaster.....they were Sandra Darney's grandparents. The wee cottage still had a red brick floor before Looking at the West Coast photographer bought it and did some renovations ....can't remember his name
Elaine Barrow
The house at the very front of the picture is where our family lived.edith.george Florence. Elaine and Kevin waters with our mum and dad.
James Codyre
Was tha small cottage with the red roof Harold Tallentire's ?
April Jarden
James Codyre No,his was next St over, bottom right of Sutherland St frontage on McDougall Ave.You can't see the house,just a piece of the roof over the large grey garage if you line it up to the drive in front of photo.
Yvonne Lawson
Dunollie where I was born.
April Jarden
Airns family showing they lived at 40 McDougall ave
May be an image of 5 people, people standing and text that says 'Liz Airns 27 August 2014 This is the Airns family of 40 McDougall Ave Dunollie. Photo was probably taken before leaving Scotland in 1926. Back row from left: Rab, Wally, Jock, Abbie, front row from left: Abraham snr, Eddy, Jimmy and Margaret.'
Yvonne Lawson
Jimmy is my best friends Dad.
Christine Dwyer
Yvonne Lawson - does Jimmy live locally?
Deb Griffiths
Thats cromarty st in this pic
Bill Johnsen
Yes Harold Boote's house but perhaps McDougal Ave start there ...great photo of Dunollie rail bridge at back....
Barry Dawson Smithson
Boote's House was in Cromarty Street.
Barry Dawson Smithson
38 McDougall Ave was Shaw's the lady with the long hair?
April Jarden
Houses on the right of McDougal ave about this time i think ,belonged to Fred and Mrs Bansgrove,Albert and Bessie Taylor,Jack and Eileen Waterson,Ted and Ola Brennan,Then Greenhills Garage.Across Sutherland St were Harold and Aileen Talentire ,Polly Blacklock, im not sure who had the next home earlier but then Hugh and Beth Nash.Mrs Smithson Connie Emmery, across Ross St were Sandy and Sue Butler,Jim and Mrs Medlin,Dunollie Store and then the Hotel....Love to know who had Hugh and Beth Nash;s home earlier Carol Cook.
Carol Scott: Sandra Teasdale this could be taken from your place!
Sandra Teasdale: Carol Scott looks like it! Halfway down the hill I’d say
Carol Scott Is that Franks old pink Austin A70 parked at Nana and Grandads.
Carol Scott: That would definitely make it around the 60’s
Marlana QuyZ: Sandra Teasdale oh the memories I used to play up that hill with Ruth Teasdale . Name far forgotten till I seen this post. Great view from up there
Sandra Teasdale: Marlana Quy I live up there now and it’s great.
Kevin Waters: Taken from Teasdale’s hill. We lived in house bottom right. Date. Maybe early 2000’s ?
Rowena Dunn: It would be much earlier than that as the house far right with the red car outside (Basil & Nell Smith's house), has a fence around it which was built in the early 1990's.
Maye Dunn: My grandparents house on Cromarty St just missed the cut.
Trish Rennie: I would say about early 60's as the colour and condition of the houses are as I remember them and the older cottages in McDougall Ave are not renovated...
Christine Farrell: I though 60s-70s
Helen Brennan: Auntie Nellie & Uncle Bass Smiths house is there Maye now there’s a big brick fence around it.
Maye Dunn Yes Helen it was a great neighbourhood back then, Everyone looked out for each other.
Margaret Newton Alley: Helen Brennan I remember going to their house, loved it, Aunty Nellie had the best sense of humor.
Rowena Dunn; Margaret Newton Alley Basil & Nell were wonderful neighbours
Merv Cate: 24/12/64 I can just see dad driving home up Inverness street after us boys just had a no 1 haircut, the back door opened on his vi and we nearly fell out going around the corner by the hall, lol
Helen Cording: I would say the 60s too i remember the pub being that colour when mum and dad had it .
Florence Gunn: Lovely to see house where we grew up right in front. 45 Hall Jones street. Johnny McPhee lived across the road. Think maybe before that Kevin
Lana Vargas I was just thinking the same thing Maye. I said to myself”where’s Nanas house?” Lol
Lorraine O'Donoghue: Lyell Stewart
Yvonne Lawson: My place of birth.
Sandra Hosgood: Keith Smith Cromarty Street off to the right our house out of shot though. Its a great photo.
Chris Burles Mid-late 60s.
Robin Gibbens Cars say mid -60s
Lana Vargas Definitely 40’s or 50’s. My aunty mollie lived on Inverness street in the fifties. The house she had was different than any there in this photo. More modern
Manage
Maye Dunn Lana I think it is later than that. If you blow the photo up the car parked outside Basil Smiths looks like a 1960's model maybe an Anglia or something similar.
George Waters Mid to late 1950s as Tom Durkin built a small resident to live in at back of our house and over towards road
George McKenzie I suggest it may have been taken after 1961 (the year I left Dunolie). Reason being: The Spring Creek (Hendies as we used to call it!) road had not been formed fully at that stage. The road only went around to the old police station house. Unwin's, Pattinson's and the single men's huts.
Dorothy Wills
A lovely picture my grandparents had a house in Herd Street can’t remember the number my mother and I used to take a bus to Greymouth from Marcia then a train to Dunolli and walk under the overhead bridge to Herd Street, their house was up quite a stee… See More
Christine Dwyer
Dorothy Wills I was looking at the 1928 Electoral roll on Ancestry and found several Hewisons who lived in Herd St at that time - Sydney, Richard, Minnie and Margaret. Was speaking with Bill Hewison (Runanga) and he confirmed they were relatives of his.
Helen Cording
Trish Rennie Trish has that photo been on before .
April Jarden
Helen Cording A photo very similar or maybe it was this one appeared a few years ago.I loved it as showed my family home which sadly burnt down.
Trish Rennie
Not that I'm aware of....Helen Helen Cording
April Jarden
Judy Smolen Can you or Joy remember what number your Gran Eliza Kay had her home on.I think it was 42 remember it as a Villa with double windows each side of the front door and porch across the front.The dairy she had there was in a front room.Number 4… See More
· Reply · · 2h · Edited
Carol Cook
April Jarden I think I remember Fenton Kay serving in that shop.
Did the Aiens family nit live in Inverness St and the grandmother and bachelor uncle in McDougal Ave?
April Jarden
Carol Cook Thats right ,Fenton lived there with his Mother and then married Julie {sons John and Lenin } The Airns familys other sons,{ Mollys husband and Abe married to Doris ] lived on Inverness Street.
Christine Dwyer
April Jarden The picture of Dunollie in 2017 which is on this site shows the house at 42 which no longer has a dwelling on it https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/5616?keywords=dunollie&type=all&highlights=eyIwIjoiZHVub2xsaWUuIiwiMiI6ImR1bm9sbG… See More
Dunollie.
WESTCOAST.RECOLLECT.CO.NZ
Dunollie.
Dunollie.
April Jarden
Christine Dwyer Umm i think the date should be !917 lol That is pretty much as i remember that side of the street. I lived on Sutherland St as a child.
Trish Rennie
Ernie Smith and his wife lived at 40 McDougal Ave...he lost his life in the Strongman mine disaster.....they were Sandra Darney's grandparents. The wee cottage still had a red brick floor before Looking at the West Coast photographer bought it and did some renovations ....can't remember his name
Elaine Barrow
The house at the very front of the picture is where our family lived.edith.george Florence. Elaine and Kevin waters with our mum and dad.
James Codyre
Was tha small cottage with the red roof Harold Tallentire's ?
April Jarden
James Codyre No,his was next St over, bottom right of Sutherland St frontage on McDougall Ave.You can't see the house,just a piece of the roof over the large grey garage if you line it up to the drive in front of photo.
Yvonne Lawson
Dunollie where I was born.
April Jarden
Airns family showing they lived at 40 McDougall ave
May be an image of 5 people, people standing and text that says 'Liz Airns 27 August 2014 This is the Airns family of 40 McDougall Ave Dunollie. Photo was probably taken before leaving Scotland in 1926. Back row from left: Rab, Wally, Jock, Abbie, front row from left: Abraham snr, Eddy, Jimmy and Margaret.'
Yvonne Lawson
Jimmy is my best friends Dad.
Christine Dwyer
Yvonne Lawson - does Jimmy live locally?
Deb Griffiths
Thats cromarty st in this pic
Bill Johnsen
Yes Harold Boote's house but perhaps McDougal Ave start there ...great photo of Dunollie rail bridge at back....
Barry Dawson Smithson
Boote's House was in Cromarty Street.
Barry Dawson Smithson
38 McDougall Ave was Shaw's the lady with the long hair?
April Jarden
Houses on the right of McDougal ave about this time i think ,belonged to Fred and Mrs Bansgrove,Albert and Bessie Taylor,Jack and Eileen Waterson,Ted and Ola Brennan,Then Greenhills Garage.Across Sutherland St were Harold and Aileen Talentire ,Polly Blacklock, im not sure who had the next home earlier but then Hugh and Beth Nash.Mrs Smithson Connie Emmery, across Ross St were Sandy and Sue Butler,Jim and Mrs Medlin,Dunollie Store and then the Hotel....Love to know who had Hugh and Beth Nash;s home earlier Carol Cook.
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West Coast New Zealand History (21st Sep 2021). Dunollie *PHOTO ALBUM*. In Website West Coast New Zealand History. Retrieved 24th Apr 2026 23:22, from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/26665