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DescriptionThe Fisher sisters retired after 66 years behind the counter and the community put on an afternoon tea for them.They were presented with a china teaset, a toaster and half dozen crystal glasses.Former Nelson Creek Parish Priest , Reverend Father Middleton,was amongst those who thanked the sisters for a job well done.PhotographerDamer FarrellMap[1] ContributorGary Tuck
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Location (city or town)Nelson CreekPersonCath FisherAgnes FisherOrganisation (eg business)Nelson Creek Store
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Date Created7th April 2020CommentsNicolette Clark Bacchiella Loved these ladies. Stopped in a lot as a kid
Shelley Lindsey yes, they were awesome :)
Troy Forsyth Get memories at that store lovely lady's
Anne Miller Mcmillan Awsum. I went to school with Cheesy Fisher. Believe hes in aus. If u read this Cheesy. Hi.
Janice Hahn Yes Cheesie is in Brisbane - I stayed with him last year - will pass on your hi to him. He is my uncle.
Anne Miller Mcmillan Janice Hahn OH WOW thank u Janice. He caught up with my twin sister Carolyn a few yrs ago but i havnt seen him since school. Thanx love
Janice Hahn He was intending a visit in March this year but with the conovirus had to put off his trip. He is due to phone again so will pass on your message to him.
Anne Miller Mcmillan Janice Hahn
Mary Fenemor Our Friend Colin always said He loved his Family & His Aunties from the Shop
Janice Hahn My great aunts.
Sadie Malone Loved seeing these two ladies when I was a kid ...
Keith Waldron I remember them and the store from when Grandad went home after his Friday visit to Greymouth. Grandad got fresh bread and milk from them.
Clayton Fisher Got me 1st packet of smokes off me auntie's when I was 12...told them they were for dad...headed over the swinging bridge with the Mahuika bros and smoked the lot
Barbara Fitzsimmons Remember well from my kopora days . Great westcoast family .
Susan Bonanno Always had the best lollies
Julie Howe Nadine Burrows can remember going to dairy with you guys n buying their homemade iceblocks
Phyllis Aberhart I can remember them in about 1983 there One of the sisters used to drive a local taxi it was a Vauxhall what we used to call a knee knockerI used to to live a couple of K's away at the other part of Nelson Creek in what was my father's house with my 2 young children. On paysay we used to walk down to the shop place my weekly order. Go to the pub for soft drinks while the order as getting made up, we'd then get the taxi back to the house
Helen Rozbicki Maunder Phyllis Aberhart What lovely memories
Pam Englefield-Absolum What amazing two sisters. I bet they could write a book on their lives, their history of living in the Grey district.
Helen Rozbicki Maunder Pam Englefield-Absolum are you related at all too the Absolum's in Westport as my Auntie and Uncle where Matt and Amy Absolum
Anne-Paddy Kennedy I remember the raspberry iceblocks they used to make in paste jars used to be a real highlight going in there
Viv Butcher My mum used to make them their derndle dresses every year for a long time. They would buy bolts of material. Often mum would make us girls dresses out of the scraps of material .
Velma Donaldson Laurice Jamieson
Mark Gillman Bottle of solo thank ag
Karen Davidson Looked after them x
Richard Leach And hi from me to we had a couple party’s with cheesy and his bro older I think
He worked in grocery store in Grey when they lived up Rutherglen
Robyn Montgomery Loved their shop on my holidays to the coast. Grandads sisters.
Gary Boucher Rev Father Middleton, a great guy.Have to be one the great Coast families.Especially remember Jack Fisher while he was a tanker driver for Atlantic Oil & Petrol.A real character who must have known everyone up the Grey Valley back in the 1970s.
Leo Fisher great memories of the creek
Trevor Wylde Fully agree Leo
Margaret McLean They were 2 of the kindest people I have ever met. Supplied me with morning tea and lunch for 3 years when I was the Post Mistress, next door to their shop.
Sandra Arnott Great fellas one had a meat run round kaiata when the kids were little!
Phyllis Aberhart Sandra Arnott they had a shop up the Grey Valley untik OSH shut it down sometime afterc 2,000 for health & safety because it still had the sawdust on the shop floor & an old wooden chopping block on the floor in the front of the shop. The truck often had wasps around it
Irene Chase Had lots of fun growing up there...
Gypsy Rover Did jack fisher have the taxi inblackball
Linda Jane Fernandez Loverly ladies..loved their homemade iceblocks...Kath run the Taxi mostly just from nelson creek to ngahere
Phyllis Aberhart Linda Jane Fernandez I thought it was Kath but was 100% sure
Leo Fisher jack did have the blackball taxi
Jenny Marshall The sisters gave you the biggest ice creams for the cheapest price. Both legends in Nelson creek and West coast history
Linda Jane Fernandez Jenny Marshall For Sure and the biggest bag lollies for 3p
Julianna Del I remember being aloud to go out the back to the supply room to get what I needed( personal stuff )
Chris Bekker I remember these two legends. I met them at age about 6, when holidaying with my grandparents, Winnie and Fred Tuck. I was enchanted by their ice cream cones which had a flat bottom, and you could sit it on the table.
Lyn Coleman My husband Sean was a opposumer out the kopora and he useto buy his supplies from them. Sean was always amazed at the speed of the adding up of the groceries..Julianna Del I remember being aloud to go out the back to the supply room to get what I needed( personal stuff )
Bernie Graham I remember going fork a ride when they went to pick up the bread fromi think stillwater station
Joss Sheehan The bestest iceblocks ever.i have so many memories of them both,
Malcolm Marshall maybe the Ngahere station I think they are my second cousins their father Billy Fisher was my grand mothers brother also had the butchers shop in Nelson Creek
Colin Pattinson Remember them when I work for Neil Sadler
Tom Egan Used call in their shop on the way to Greymouth when we were kids they always give me and my brothers a chocolate bomb each we thought it was xmas
Anne Brown Wonderful Ladies.
James Codyre We could buy ammo and petrol plus other goods to take on hunting and fishing trips out to the Kopara.
Annette Mead Yes they did have the best lollies remember buying them while visiting great auntie Jess and uncle Gordon Dalziel very Fond memories of my childhood.
Mary Fenemor
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Old Colin F. Always said, He Loved All His Family Members. Rip. Col ? We do miss U. ?.
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Erin Williams
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Great shop keepers in the old days.
Helen Rutherford
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Remember them well!.
Anne McMillan Miller
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Thank u for sharing this Gary..Will save to show Cheesy.
Barbara Fitzsimmons
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Great family . Anne McMillan Miller.
Colleen Yee
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I remember going into their store when our family {McKenzie} lived at Nelson Creek in the 1950s. ?Thanks for posting this photo and information.
Aileen Sturrock
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Very well appreciated by the Thelin family of Bell Hill, always looked after us all many years ago.
Barry Ward
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Remember them well Also remember when cath hit a tree going to Ngahere about 1964.
Christine Adamson
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Loved Ag and Cath. The shop was still open when I lived there. The storeroom was like a museum.
Maxene Broadhurst
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I remember them ⭐️.
Sue-Ann Griffiths
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Nadine Burrows is this a relation?.
Irene Chase
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Growing up in Nelson Creek was an amazing place, sadly didn’t appreciate it at the time..
Fishers, Tucks, Sadlers, Tibbles, Butchers, Pikes, Barrs, de Brueks and of course us Mahuika’s made up of most if not all of our little township…
Cath and Ag were part of our every day lives, even when they were closed..
Always remember them when we go home..
James Codyre
·
Also ran a Taxi plus drove down to Ngahere station to deliver mail bags and take incoming mail to Nelson Creek PO which they ran.
Phyllis Aberhart
·
I remember Kath & Ag Fisher. Briefly in the early 70's I lived up the road next to the Mahuika's at Arthur's Gemmell house. He was my father. Once a week my two young children & I would walk down & buy groceries, then go to the pub & have a small soft drink until I think it was Kath who used to take us back home. The car was a Vauxhall model which were nicknamed knee knockers.
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Josephine Mahuika
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Ohhh yes those were the days
Bert Pulman
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Certainly remember them and Grandad would call and pick up groceries for all the families at Haupiri.
Jeff Jones
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I brought the coal range from Nelson Creek shop from Wally Bolten in the early 1980s. It was like brand new. I think the sisters used to wipe it every day with mutton fat and a piece of muslin cloth.
Susan Bonanno
·
Loved going into the shop to buy lollies from the huge display of jars as a child staying with Jessie and Gordon Dalziel. They were ever so patient while we decided what we wanted with our 5c.
Claire Balderstone
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Met them and remember the shop from when I married my husband Ross. Fabulous place x
Donna Baxendale
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What a lovely picture of Aunty Ag and Cath. Xx
Sharyn Peters
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Great treasure trove that shop was. They made the best bread and butter pudding ice blocks in a Salisbury Paste jar, folding the papers that were tossed out the car window. They were great ladies.
Tania Kelly-Radford
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Leo Fisher
Kirsty Robinson
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Marie Dixon Garry Dixon
Raewyn Taylor
·
Awww!! Lovely people!!!
Sista Bob
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I remember going into their shop as a kid to buy lollies. We'd visit Nana (Rose Blackmore) every school holidays. Great memories ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Jessie Pinkman
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Julie Howe
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I'll always remember the ice blocks they made in old jars with a stick in them.
Shelley Lindsey yes, they were awesome :)
Troy Forsyth Get memories at that store lovely lady's
Anne Miller Mcmillan Awsum. I went to school with Cheesy Fisher. Believe hes in aus. If u read this Cheesy. Hi.
Janice Hahn Yes Cheesie is in Brisbane - I stayed with him last year - will pass on your hi to him. He is my uncle.
Anne Miller Mcmillan Janice Hahn OH WOW thank u Janice. He caught up with my twin sister Carolyn a few yrs ago but i havnt seen him since school. Thanx love
Janice Hahn He was intending a visit in March this year but with the conovirus had to put off his trip. He is due to phone again so will pass on your message to him.
Anne Miller Mcmillan Janice Hahn
Mary Fenemor Our Friend Colin always said He loved his Family & His Aunties from the Shop
Janice Hahn My great aunts.
Sadie Malone Loved seeing these two ladies when I was a kid ...
Keith Waldron I remember them and the store from when Grandad went home after his Friday visit to Greymouth. Grandad got fresh bread and milk from them.
Clayton Fisher Got me 1st packet of smokes off me auntie's when I was 12...told them they were for dad...headed over the swinging bridge with the Mahuika bros and smoked the lot
Barbara Fitzsimmons Remember well from my kopora days . Great westcoast family .
Susan Bonanno Always had the best lollies
Julie Howe Nadine Burrows can remember going to dairy with you guys n buying their homemade iceblocks
Phyllis Aberhart I can remember them in about 1983 there One of the sisters used to drive a local taxi it was a Vauxhall what we used to call a knee knockerI used to to live a couple of K's away at the other part of Nelson Creek in what was my father's house with my 2 young children. On paysay we used to walk down to the shop place my weekly order. Go to the pub for soft drinks while the order as getting made up, we'd then get the taxi back to the house
Helen Rozbicki Maunder Phyllis Aberhart What lovely memories
Pam Englefield-Absolum What amazing two sisters. I bet they could write a book on their lives, their history of living in the Grey district.
Helen Rozbicki Maunder Pam Englefield-Absolum are you related at all too the Absolum's in Westport as my Auntie and Uncle where Matt and Amy Absolum
Anne-Paddy Kennedy I remember the raspberry iceblocks they used to make in paste jars used to be a real highlight going in there
Viv Butcher My mum used to make them their derndle dresses every year for a long time. They would buy bolts of material. Often mum would make us girls dresses out of the scraps of material .
Velma Donaldson Laurice Jamieson
Mark Gillman Bottle of solo thank ag
Karen Davidson Looked after them x
Richard Leach And hi from me to we had a couple party’s with cheesy and his bro older I think
He worked in grocery store in Grey when they lived up Rutherglen
Robyn Montgomery Loved their shop on my holidays to the coast. Grandads sisters.
Gary Boucher Rev Father Middleton, a great guy.Have to be one the great Coast families.Especially remember Jack Fisher while he was a tanker driver for Atlantic Oil & Petrol.A real character who must have known everyone up the Grey Valley back in the 1970s.
Leo Fisher great memories of the creek
Trevor Wylde Fully agree Leo
Margaret McLean They were 2 of the kindest people I have ever met. Supplied me with morning tea and lunch for 3 years when I was the Post Mistress, next door to their shop.
Sandra Arnott Great fellas one had a meat run round kaiata when the kids were little!
Phyllis Aberhart Sandra Arnott they had a shop up the Grey Valley untik OSH shut it down sometime afterc 2,000 for health & safety because it still had the sawdust on the shop floor & an old wooden chopping block on the floor in the front of the shop. The truck often had wasps around it
Irene Chase Had lots of fun growing up there...
Gypsy Rover Did jack fisher have the taxi inblackball
Linda Jane Fernandez Loverly ladies..loved their homemade iceblocks...Kath run the Taxi mostly just from nelson creek to ngahere
Phyllis Aberhart Linda Jane Fernandez I thought it was Kath but was 100% sure
Leo Fisher jack did have the blackball taxi
Jenny Marshall The sisters gave you the biggest ice creams for the cheapest price. Both legends in Nelson creek and West coast history
Linda Jane Fernandez Jenny Marshall For Sure and the biggest bag lollies for 3p
Julianna Del I remember being aloud to go out the back to the supply room to get what I needed( personal stuff )
Chris Bekker I remember these two legends. I met them at age about 6, when holidaying with my grandparents, Winnie and Fred Tuck. I was enchanted by their ice cream cones which had a flat bottom, and you could sit it on the table.
Lyn Coleman My husband Sean was a opposumer out the kopora and he useto buy his supplies from them. Sean was always amazed at the speed of the adding up of the groceries..Julianna Del I remember being aloud to go out the back to the supply room to get what I needed( personal stuff )
Bernie Graham I remember going fork a ride when they went to pick up the bread fromi think stillwater station
Joss Sheehan The bestest iceblocks ever.i have so many memories of them both,
Malcolm Marshall maybe the Ngahere station I think they are my second cousins their father Billy Fisher was my grand mothers brother also had the butchers shop in Nelson Creek
Colin Pattinson Remember them when I work for Neil Sadler
Tom Egan Used call in their shop on the way to Greymouth when we were kids they always give me and my brothers a chocolate bomb each we thought it was xmas
Anne Brown Wonderful Ladies.
James Codyre We could buy ammo and petrol plus other goods to take on hunting and fishing trips out to the Kopara.
Annette Mead Yes they did have the best lollies remember buying them while visiting great auntie Jess and uncle Gordon Dalziel very Fond memories of my childhood.
Mary Fenemor
·
Old Colin F. Always said, He Loved All His Family Members. Rip. Col ? We do miss U. ?.
Edited
Erin Williams
·
Great shop keepers in the old days.
Helen Rutherford
·
Remember them well!.
Anne McMillan Miller
·
Thank u for sharing this Gary..Will save to show Cheesy.
Barbara Fitzsimmons
·
Great family . Anne McMillan Miller.
Colleen Yee
·
I remember going into their store when our family {McKenzie} lived at Nelson Creek in the 1950s. ?Thanks for posting this photo and information.
Aileen Sturrock
·
Very well appreciated by the Thelin family of Bell Hill, always looked after us all many years ago.
Barry Ward
·
Remember them well Also remember when cath hit a tree going to Ngahere about 1964.
Christine Adamson
·
Loved Ag and Cath. The shop was still open when I lived there. The storeroom was like a museum.
Maxene Broadhurst
·
I remember them ⭐️.
Sue-Ann Griffiths
·
Nadine Burrows is this a relation?.
Irene Chase
·
Growing up in Nelson Creek was an amazing place, sadly didn’t appreciate it at the time..
Fishers, Tucks, Sadlers, Tibbles, Butchers, Pikes, Barrs, de Brueks and of course us Mahuika’s made up of most if not all of our little township…
Cath and Ag were part of our every day lives, even when they were closed..
Always remember them when we go home..
James Codyre
·
Also ran a Taxi plus drove down to Ngahere station to deliver mail bags and take incoming mail to Nelson Creek PO which they ran.
Phyllis Aberhart
·
I remember Kath & Ag Fisher. Briefly in the early 70's I lived up the road next to the Mahuika's at Arthur's Gemmell house. He was my father. Once a week my two young children & I would walk down & buy groceries, then go to the pub & have a small soft drink until I think it was Kath who used to take us back home. The car was a Vauxhall model which were nicknamed knee knockers.
Edited
Josephine Mahuika
·
Ohhh yes those were the days
Bert Pulman
·
Certainly remember them and Grandad would call and pick up groceries for all the families at Haupiri.
Jeff Jones
·
I brought the coal range from Nelson Creek shop from Wally Bolten in the early 1980s. It was like brand new. I think the sisters used to wipe it every day with mutton fat and a piece of muslin cloth.
Susan Bonanno
·
Loved going into the shop to buy lollies from the huge display of jars as a child staying with Jessie and Gordon Dalziel. They were ever so patient while we decided what we wanted with our 5c.
Claire Balderstone
·
Met them and remember the shop from when I married my husband Ross. Fabulous place x
Donna Baxendale
·
What a lovely picture of Aunty Ag and Cath. Xx
Sharyn Peters
·
Great treasure trove that shop was. They made the best bread and butter pudding ice blocks in a Salisbury Paste jar, folding the papers that were tossed out the car window. They were great ladies.
Tania Kelly-Radford
·
Leo Fisher
Kirsty Robinson
·
Marie Dixon Garry Dixon
Raewyn Taylor
·
Awww!! Lovely people!!!
Sista Bob
·
I remember going into their shop as a kid to buy lollies. We'd visit Nana (Rose Blackmore) every school holidays. Great memories ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Jessie Pinkman
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Julie Howe
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I'll always remember the ice blocks they made in old jars with a stick in them.
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