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Kaniere - Post Office, Bakery, Shop.1950s *PHOTO ALBUM*
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- Post Office, Bakery, Shop
- Late 1950’s
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Barbara Francis: My Dad, Frank Mitchell, driving for Pfahlerts BakeryDate of Photoca.1950`sMap[1] External LinkMadon NZContributor Richard Wooders
- Post Office, Bakery, Shop
- Late 1950’s
- Original Family Photo
#341808
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Barbara Francis: My Dad, Frank Mitchell, driving for Pfahlerts BakeryDate of Photoca.1950`sMap[1] External LinkMadon NZContributor Richard Wooders
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Location (city or town)KaniereOrganisation (eg business)Kaniere Post OfficeKaniere BakeryKaniere ShopEventKaniere - Post Office, Bakery, Shop.1950`s.
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Date Created14th May 2020CommentsNancy Woolhouse I remember going there when I was a kid for snowflake ice creams and the bread. The bread was what you call bread and by the time we got back home to Arthurstown there was a big hole eaten out of the middle. Not very popular when we got home safe wasn’t asked very often to get it.
Yvonne Jean nicest bread ever
Jenny Jones Those were the days when you picked the bread up from Feddeie out the back it was so fresh you couldn't help but pick a hole in it . Great memories.
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Anne Miller Mcmillan Jenny Jones -mum used to send us to Smiths bread shop corner Thompson St where we lived. The whole inside of loaf be gone by the time we got home. Dont know why we bothered takin it home
John Paget I remember the bread it was the best.
Bev Freitas Loved going there,the smell of baking bread was good,
Warm Brown bread and golden syrup Wes delicious ,icecreams were big,
The post office was the room on the left of the shop,
loved those tortoise shell cats that lived out the back of the bake house,
Such good memories,
Suzanne Stuart My grandparents shop
Bronwyn Pardo I remember Mr Pfahlert - he was our neighbour up near the school for many years. Mr Pfahlert would tell us kids wonderful stories about the bakery. I remember Mr Pfahlert riding around on his motorbike with his old faithful black lab Nick. Was the best bread ever - the coloured wax bread bags - green was thin slice bread - lol, getting old can't remember but know there were other colours for the different thicknesses of bread - lots of wonderful memories of times gone by
Dianne Kemp Oh great memories of watching the bread dough being made by my stepdad Jim Pfahlert and then the smell of the freshly baked bread was so delicious
Barbara Francis My Dad, Frank Mitchell, driving for Pfahlerts Bakery
PaulAnthony Teens Barbara Francis I think the bottom van was a Reo and ended up at Teriwhati
Les Mehrtens Great Family Bakery. We used to stop off here with the cream lorry and put suppliers bread into their cream cans.
Jeannie Sales My grandfather's bakery and my grandmother's shop. Such great memories Bread was the best
KateandMike Lilley Jeannie Sales they certainly were. I clearly remember the ovens. And the bake house cats out the back
Terence Pugh "Flat decks Ready" !! out comes the stirrup pump with the sugar water to glaze the Barracuttas ,Charlie or Jim or Bryan on the peel and Tex or Des tipping out of the red hot tins and whom ever stacking ,awesome childhood memories
Sally Richardson Where in Kaniere was this?
Nancy Woolhouse It was near the main road about where Bridge Motors have their new workshop
Ross Stewart I worked in the bakehouse about 1958
Kev Rasmussen Remember standing under the verandah with my mum waiting for the bus.
Tania Newman Remember the bakery in Tancred St. Went every Sunday to get freshly baked bread. Yum!
Glenn Johnston In 1974 I had an after school job at Fairlies Supermarket and sometimes when I knocked off work of an evening I would buy a warm unsliced loaf from the cooling racks at Pfhalerts Bakery in Tancred St., across the road. I loved their bread which used higher grade flour than most bakeries. Denis Pfahlert the last bakery owner/manager only very recently passed away at a big age. There is a lot of history that could be told about this bakery and family!Paddy Sweeney My folk use to have bread delivered three times a week from Eastgates Bakery in Hokitika to their tearooms at Franz Josef. Charlie Pfahlert turned up one day and sent free bread for a month. That did it, we all like Charlie's bread better even if it was often burnt on the top.
Ron Hibbs I can remember picking up the bread at lunch time when we lived on the Kaniere Tram, I can still conjure up the smell.
Jan Sowman Very interesting photos. We lived in Kaniere township for about 23 years
Karen Lawson I loved this shop. We used to get sent for the bread. The barracuttas were the best. When you broke it in half it always had a raised end and a hollow end. The raised end was always level by the time we got home. Yum.
Jeannie Sales How are you Karen?
Pauline Shaffrey My dad's cousins. Great photo!
Trish Barclay I worked at Eastgates bakery lovely people
Natalie Win Great to see photo of the Kaniere Store and Bakery the hub of the community back in the day
Lyn Henham Brings back memories
Sarah Veller Douglas Smales Remember it well. There was the most beautiful pink fluffy scarf in the window . I had to have it . Wk in and wk out I would stand looking at it. I asked my mum for the money and I ran to that shop and bought it. It was mine. Can't remember the price. That yr would have been 1959 or 60. Xxxxx
Glenn Johnston I remember Frank, a cheerful friendly chap, from the early 1970's when he was a caretaker at the High School along with George Gillingham. His wife Ave Mitchell worked at Fairlies Supermarket when I had a part time job doing deliveries van driving. Never knew Frank had involvement with Pfhalerts Bakery as a driver or other capacity. I'd always thought he'd been a farmer prior to being a caretaker. Good historic photo's!
Clare Pierson I have vivid memories of being in the bakery watching the mixing process in the biggest bowl I had ever seen when I was five years old. Was fascinated with how much yeast Jim ate, Dennis looking onto Te huge hit ovens to bring out the bread mwith long paddles. Auntie Edna (dad's only sister, Uncle Charlie and all their offspring now gone to a new happy hunting ground. The shop was on the North side of the main road not far from the bridge on the south side. The family lived in Camp Street diagonally opposite the school.
Kathryn Ward Sandra Pfalhert
Helen Hutchison I remember the Bakery . Hub of the Kaniere shops. Yes never forget biking with Nana Hutchison to get that tasty Fresh Bread . Special memories .
John Wilson I remember stioping there to get milk and bread on the way to Styx base, that's just down from the pub.
Yvonne Jean nicest bread ever
Jenny Jones Those were the days when you picked the bread up from Feddeie out the back it was so fresh you couldn't help but pick a hole in it . Great memories.
3
Anne Miller Mcmillan Jenny Jones -mum used to send us to Smiths bread shop corner Thompson St where we lived. The whole inside of loaf be gone by the time we got home. Dont know why we bothered takin it home
John Paget I remember the bread it was the best.
Bev Freitas Loved going there,the smell of baking bread was good,
Warm Brown bread and golden syrup Wes delicious ,icecreams were big,
The post office was the room on the left of the shop,
loved those tortoise shell cats that lived out the back of the bake house,
Such good memories,
Suzanne Stuart My grandparents shop
Bronwyn Pardo I remember Mr Pfahlert - he was our neighbour up near the school for many years. Mr Pfahlert would tell us kids wonderful stories about the bakery. I remember Mr Pfahlert riding around on his motorbike with his old faithful black lab Nick. Was the best bread ever - the coloured wax bread bags - green was thin slice bread - lol, getting old can't remember but know there were other colours for the different thicknesses of bread - lots of wonderful memories of times gone by
Dianne Kemp Oh great memories of watching the bread dough being made by my stepdad Jim Pfahlert and then the smell of the freshly baked bread was so delicious
Barbara Francis My Dad, Frank Mitchell, driving for Pfahlerts Bakery
PaulAnthony Teens Barbara Francis I think the bottom van was a Reo and ended up at Teriwhati
Les Mehrtens Great Family Bakery. We used to stop off here with the cream lorry and put suppliers bread into their cream cans.
Jeannie Sales My grandfather's bakery and my grandmother's shop. Such great memories Bread was the best
KateandMike Lilley Jeannie Sales they certainly were. I clearly remember the ovens. And the bake house cats out the back
Terence Pugh "Flat decks Ready" !! out comes the stirrup pump with the sugar water to glaze the Barracuttas ,Charlie or Jim or Bryan on the peel and Tex or Des tipping out of the red hot tins and whom ever stacking ,awesome childhood memories
Sally Richardson Where in Kaniere was this?
Nancy Woolhouse It was near the main road about where Bridge Motors have their new workshop
Ross Stewart I worked in the bakehouse about 1958
Kev Rasmussen Remember standing under the verandah with my mum waiting for the bus.
Tania Newman Remember the bakery in Tancred St. Went every Sunday to get freshly baked bread. Yum!
Glenn Johnston In 1974 I had an after school job at Fairlies Supermarket and sometimes when I knocked off work of an evening I would buy a warm unsliced loaf from the cooling racks at Pfhalerts Bakery in Tancred St., across the road. I loved their bread which used higher grade flour than most bakeries. Denis Pfahlert the last bakery owner/manager only very recently passed away at a big age. There is a lot of history that could be told about this bakery and family!Paddy Sweeney My folk use to have bread delivered three times a week from Eastgates Bakery in Hokitika to their tearooms at Franz Josef. Charlie Pfahlert turned up one day and sent free bread for a month. That did it, we all like Charlie's bread better even if it was often burnt on the top.
Ron Hibbs I can remember picking up the bread at lunch time when we lived on the Kaniere Tram, I can still conjure up the smell.
Jan Sowman Very interesting photos. We lived in Kaniere township for about 23 years
Karen Lawson I loved this shop. We used to get sent for the bread. The barracuttas were the best. When you broke it in half it always had a raised end and a hollow end. The raised end was always level by the time we got home. Yum.
Jeannie Sales How are you Karen?
Pauline Shaffrey My dad's cousins. Great photo!
Trish Barclay I worked at Eastgates bakery lovely people
Natalie Win Great to see photo of the Kaniere Store and Bakery the hub of the community back in the day
Lyn Henham Brings back memories
Sarah Veller Douglas Smales Remember it well. There was the most beautiful pink fluffy scarf in the window . I had to have it . Wk in and wk out I would stand looking at it. I asked my mum for the money and I ran to that shop and bought it. It was mine. Can't remember the price. That yr would have been 1959 or 60. Xxxxx
Glenn Johnston I remember Frank, a cheerful friendly chap, from the early 1970's when he was a caretaker at the High School along with George Gillingham. His wife Ave Mitchell worked at Fairlies Supermarket when I had a part time job doing deliveries van driving. Never knew Frank had involvement with Pfhalerts Bakery as a driver or other capacity. I'd always thought he'd been a farmer prior to being a caretaker. Good historic photo's!
Clare Pierson I have vivid memories of being in the bakery watching the mixing process in the biggest bowl I had ever seen when I was five years old. Was fascinated with how much yeast Jim ate, Dennis looking onto Te huge hit ovens to bring out the bread mwith long paddles. Auntie Edna (dad's only sister, Uncle Charlie and all their offspring now gone to a new happy hunting ground. The shop was on the North side of the main road not far from the bridge on the south side. The family lived in Camp Street diagonally opposite the school.
Kathryn Ward Sandra Pfalhert
Helen Hutchison I remember the Bakery . Hub of the Kaniere shops. Yes never forget biking with Nana Hutchison to get that tasty Fresh Bread . Special memories .
John Wilson I remember stioping there to get milk and bread on the way to Styx base, that's just down from the pub.
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