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Ann Knipe:
it is confusing as back then this block was Couston/Hannan as you and I know it - but they later moved Barclay into Couston and Morice into Hannan - which is what it is now. The original Barclay Wd then became Day Surgery and McBrearty.Date of Photo2021Map[1] ContributorLaura Mills
Ann Knipe:
it is confusing as back then this block was Couston/Hannan as you and I know it - but they later moved Barclay into Couston and Morice into Hannan - which is what it is now. The original Barclay Wd then became Day Surgery and McBrearty.Date of Photo2021Map[1] ContributorLaura Mills
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CommentsMartin Burt
I remember when that was all state of the art...
Maureen McCrimmon
Martin Burt same
Robert Ray
Shouldn't be pulled down until the new first aid building is sorted
Jude Nicoll
Robert Ray mental health is staying for now anyway
Shaun Burgess
no great lose
Paul Sweeney
Built by Barrow brothers
Kathy Duthie
my husband and brother in law worked on this site; warren was the crane opperater
Dale Felmingham
I can remember it being built back in about 1974 and it was designed to be "earthquake proof" and to last!!!!
Trish Rennie
I worked for RA Garlick then and they did the steelwork for the place...would have like to witness them deconstructing that...
Jeffrey Peacock
had my arm amputated in that hospital ....and funny enough it was garlicks fault to a degree
Stu McConchie
Hmmm bad memories in there. One place I'm glad to see go. Lost a child here
Alan Messenger
What was built in 1974? I am 84 and remember the hospital always being there.
Martin Burt
Alan Messenger the new buildings are the 3rd version I know of on the hospital site
Bernadette Hannah
Alan Messenger rebuilt in1974 .
Michelle Macilquham
Move along...new one here
Caroline Jane Barnes
Katie Barnes
Kim Broadhurst
Wow Alan Shaw that will look very different!!
Gordon Dixon
My dad helped with all the plumbing with this part of the hospital with loves construction
Lucia Cory
So sad to see
Karyn Bousfield
Lucia Cory so many memories!
Lucia Cory
Karyn Bousfield I know my first job in NZ . So many beautiful memories
Kayla Brennan
James Brennan
Kaylee Thomson
Bye Borice Teresa Goodman Liz Wilson
Helen-Eileen Pilcher
Kaylee Thomson wow so sad!
Teresa Goodman
Kaylee Thomson so sad
Nick Westwood
Alison Westwood is this the one dad built?
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Alison Westwood
Nick Westwood yes it is ."bloody shame ".
We saw the windows being removed when over there. Quite sad really.
Lyn Whittle
Was state of the art once
Monica Harvey
I worked there many years ago next time I Come down it won't seem the same somehow but I'm so pleased you have a new hospital could someone tell me how old it is
Heather Newby
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Monica Harvey it was built around 1970 and was ready to move in ..1971
Evelyn Hampton
I started there in 1978 , they were still building the new hospital then
Therese Gibb
Sam Chalmers
Natesha Ramsay
I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did. How many quakes did it go through? Such a shame. My grandmother took her last breath in Morice Ward in 2018. I spent 2.5 weeks in ICU in 2012. Very thankful to all those nurses and docs for saving my life.
Andy Bone
Let hope fletchers are not evolved
Brenda Yorston
A part of me feels really sad seeing it demolished did my training there have really good memories guess we need to move on
Patrick Nicholls
This you demoing
Tomas Payn ?
Lisa Scott
born there!!
Anne Allan
Lisa Scott me too
Mike Payn
Anne Allan me three
John Paget
My parents both died in there so i will not miss it.
Vern Pattinson
John Paget mine the same
Bronwyn Hibbs
Spent many a week of my early childhood in Hannah Ward after being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Some awesome memories of wonderful Sisters (Baltrop, Graham etc) and the lovely nurses - I got to help out making beds up, spital boxes, pushing the but… See More
Ingrid Warren
Born there 1971
Mel Higson
Born there 1969
Deborah Bowden
Born there too yo and my Dad worked there for years yo
Carolyn Murphy
They killed my mother so good ridence. Unscreened blood.
Brenda Gill
It would never have come down built to last ,lack of maintenance?..
Charil Milne
My mum did her training there
Elizabeth Shaw
My husband was born there in 1944
Tony Nolan
Was born there 1956...
Sheryl Iraia
Trained there and had my first son there. It was such an improvement from the old OBrien and Seddon Wards
Dave Steers
I was a apprentice plumber when they built this 1.I think the builder was Barrow bros.
Mary Fenemor
Dave Steers Batty and Sweeney had the Plumbing contract then
Dave Steers
Mary Fenemor yes I worked for them.
Alison Blogs
had tonsils and gall bladder removed there.
Julz Rangihika
Sad. Spent alot of time there with my daughter who was a conic asthmatic. We lived in Westport at the time the travel there in the ambulance was horrible..... then finding our own way back to Westport was worse
Bruce Knight
A Coaster who now lives in the US. I was born in McBreaty(sp?) in 1951, and can recall the current hospital being built. My daughter spent some time there with 3rd degree burns. So what gives with the demolition? What’s replacing this hospital? Tha… See More
Linzi Woods
Bruce Knight They have a new one built - some doctors say not fit for purpose
Jillene Magee
In the windows after hospital changed over new premises there was hand made sign hanging up and it stated Farewell Grey Hospital, and it was either 1917, or maybe 1921. Someone. Might know the answer to this.
Mandy Bruce
I was born in that hospital in 1955. Not sure the New one is really fit for purpose though, time will tell.
Ann Knipe
I started my nursing training there in 1972. In 49 years of nursing in Grey I have watched two hospitals being built, and two hospitals being demolished. How time flys.
Sheryl O'Leary
Very sad. Did my nursing training there and what a great all round education I received. My husband David worked for Barrow Brothers and helped build the hospital. Lots of wonderful memories and wonderful people who I worked with at Grey Hospital.
Graeme Peters
All my hard work gone spent three years of my life wiring that place
Joshua Kearns
Graeme Peters would that have been with mims cable back then, Or more steel conduit?
Mary Fenemor
Graeme Peters and what a Great Job, that would have Been to , just Like Ron's Plumbing Job there, all those Years ago , by a Wallsend and a Taylorville, Young Men !
Linzi Woods
I was born there 1954 - don't remember it though. luckily
Shelley Hand
Kinda sad really to see it go.
Jan Sowman
A lovely hospital and the Drs and Nurses fantastic. Will be forever indebted to them
Bronwen Skates
started my training in 1970 and loved it , the wards were always full and busy , great staff , great memories .
Peta Jones
I was there for a week with a bad concussion from falling head first off tricycle at age 5. It happened on Bright St coming back from the beach. The last words I heard was my mum telling me I was going too fast...so I went faster!
That was 1956. Some… See More
Cherie Liddell
What is the plan for the space where it was?
Ann Knipe
Car parking.
Tracy Gillman
Born there 1969
Jayne Duncan
Son born there and my mother Pat Rankin worked there for many years.
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Greg King
How sad. This is where I arrived on the 23rd of July 1960. Dad had a double celebration as he was a father for the first time and the All Blacks beat South Africa 11-3 at Newlands Cape Town.
Glenn Tomlinson
I think I was born there. Or was that an older part
Heather Newby
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Glenn Tomlinson I was nursing trainingin 1971 and the old maternity ward was still in use
Wayne Thornton
I suppose all WCDHB money went on this nothing for Westport
Paul Agnes Smith
Terrible place. Glad to see it go. Born there in 1948, couldn't walk or talk for quite some time after.......
Steph JF
I believe barrow brothers were involved in the construction. 2 of my sons were born there too. So sad to see it go
Aroha Meihana
Sad. My daughters were born there and so was their dad. My oldest girl had same midwife their dad did.
Neville Moka
I was born there,another era gone.
Sharyn Simpson
Another bit of my history disappears.I was born there.
Alan N Barb Cochrane
Alan & I where born there plus our two children Donna 1967 & Robert 1968
Gary Williams
Like all smaller towns in ÑZ these sort of utìlity buildings do the most but get the bloody least! !!!!!
Jordyn Coppell
Gary Williams agreed I'm only 27 and respect what your saying
Tim Kiddie
No way I was born there. 1964. My Grandfather worked there. My name was Anita Thompson before I married my husband. His F.B Page. So sad.
Anita Hale
I was born there in 64
Rosalie Fuller
Anita Hale me in 1951
Lyn Galvin
I was born there in 1948
Felicity Cowper
Lets be thankful we have hospitals in this country and say that Greymouth Hospital has served to the best of its ability.
Felicity Cowper
Time to build a safer and earthquake proof Hospital. Most the brick anything is going from Christchurch........it doesn't stand in a severe earthquake like the two we've had. Sometimes its time to build anew. we can look forward to a more updated Hospi… See More
Val Whittaker
So many happy memories here when I was a young nurse working under Steve Barclay a very clever surgeon
Robin Gibbens
Sad in a nice kind of way born there in 54, new is way safer for all
Wayne Nicholson
Robin Gibbens 54 ? are you sure . LoL
Janine Manson
My son was born there in 1991
Gary Rauhihi
Born there had my tonsils out there and mum worked there. Sad
Diana Hende
Very sad day. I worked there for many years and our two daughters were born there. Many happy memories
Karina Cook
My mum olene Jones was a nurse there
Elaine Rainey
A wonderful place to work. Great memories. Great staff/ colleagues. Started my nursing in 1969 in the old hospital and watched the building of this one. Worked in this one as when it opened for 22 years.
Pam Eddy
Born there on Xmas day 1949 .
Jean Mehrtens
Born there and both the parents who raised me died there ... what will be there in the future?
Karl Barkley
Jean Mehrtens A Car Park
Pauline Walsh
Me to sis I was born there plus to of my children
S
Jenny Rickard
Born there in 1945 I remember it was a very good hospital. \
Yvonne Mirfin
I was born there and my four sons also ..
Garry Chapman
Should have new hospital paid off in time to demolish it and rebuild
Jane Andrews
Lots of memories for me too!
Anne Miller Mcmillan
Am seein third hospital in my life time for Greymouth. My dad was head painter at first when i was 11 years old. then hospital they now demolishing and now new one. lots of memories and work history for me .
Deborah Marley
I much prefer the old hosp....the new one is disorganised and sloppily run
Karl Barkley
What a Waste of Good Money which could have been Spent on Maintenance! But how do you Down Size ? Well Built something Newer Poorer Quality & then you Destroy what you had saying it's an Earthquake Risk so what if it shakes ! See how long the Fletchers… See More
Bruce Dando
Karl Barkley who's land all that be dumped on.
Graham Hunt
what a waist now we have substandard care and you can not even get to see a DR any more in the new hospital it is such a shambles there
Kerrie Lee
The 1970s extension had some very modern design thinking incorporated. Big windows that let fresh air and light in, plus gave patients a view & a connection to the outside (good for mental health). Wide hallways that could fit two beds passing by side … See More
Sue Abbott
I worked in Barclay ward cleaning Saturdays and Sundays for quite a while. In winter time the wind from the sea just whistled around the building!!
Doris Blanchard
I had my tonsils removed in the Greymouth hospital in 1940. It may have been a different building then.
Jonesy Wolfhunter Jones
Remember Mum looking out the window at us because we weren’t allowed to visit.. it was the previous wooden hospital.. when she was there for a her nerves.. I remember the night she collapsed and dad couldn’t open the back door.
Carol Jones
I can remember when it was new 50 years ago
Brian Boustridge
I remember walking in to work in it when it was brand new
Helen Joan Forrest
I remember that being built when I was working in Victoria Ward and Seddon Ward. That was part of the old hospital and now the new one is being knocked down. Sad.
Nathan Righton
Roddy Craigie remember dropping you off here lol
Karl Hasson
Rosslyn Weaver
I was born in McBrearty Annex in 1941 & worked in x_ray dept as secretary 1957-58 approx
Russell Murphy
My Brother helped build that. What ever happened to Barrow Brothers?
Rachel Willoughby
My daughter was born there in 2001 (my room was one right down end by the dayroom )and my som in 2014
Kathryn Ward
Is there a new one going to be built?
Ian Selwood
Kathryn Ward Where have you been the last 3years..?
Ian Selwood
They picked great weather for that today...!!!
Melissa Costello
Miss the old one.
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Julie Lucas
Agree very sad as but lots of good memories
Bruce Macnab
About time so out dated
Che Norris
Born there in November 1974. The memories there! XXxX.
Dorothy Adams
Brian Adams your Father help build that hospital, I use to go have lunch with him, fish N chips, sometimes
Riyadh Riyadh Riyadh
Dorothy Adams such a cool memory to have!
Ann Knipe
I found this 1970's photo of the hospital construction. The circled building is the area that is being demolished at the moment. Behind it is the area that was to be the site of the 'new' theatre block and Central Sterilizing.
Glenn Tomlinson
Ann Knipe And the hostel next door. Didn't realise the houses next to the hostel were built in the 70',s
Barb Watkins
My eldest daughter was born there'
Bernadette Hannah
Interesting
Kay Nichols
I hope it is a move in the right direction. Fixing decaying buildings keeps my brother busy
Kath Gordon
Born there 1940
Des Kennedy
I was born there exactly 75 years ago on 18 January.
Wendy Ritchie
LOL I am the only one of six siblings who wasn't born there. They remind me often that I am the odd one out.
Ann Harris
Kirsty Klempel
I was born there
Lyla Al-Alawi
Wow didn’t know they’re doing that
Chris Moriarty
If it’s McBrearty Ward......three sons born there. Great staff and medical care in the seventies.
Helen Ruscoe
Quite sad. Progress eh?
Denese Joy Keenan
My sister was born there 1960 Karen Smith-Colligan
Joanne Wallace
Me too
Karen Da Via
The men who built the old hospital say there was so much steel put in when it was being built that it would never fall down. I suspect the same can't be said for the new one.
Brenda Gill
Karen Da Via the new one seems to be a lemon
Lorraine Hensley
I was born they’re in 1951
Jude Smail
I’ve heard exactly the same thing said
Barb Rodway
My dad was the hospital engineer, for most of his life, also was at Reefton for a while
Linda Howard
The sad truth is the people who work....or have worked there have put their soul and heart into it...only to be destroyed by the stupid fools up top who have no idea of how a Hospital should be run...it’s all about profit....they do not understand that sick people are not a supermarket.
Diane Harmon Tackney
Linda Howard I agree - I was in there in Oct last year for 12 days the nursing staff were absolutely fantastic but was not pleased with the medical staff at all what do you expect when they are locums bought in from different parts of NZ
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Dave Mackie
Linda Howard dad was a doctor there from 1968-1980 and he hated the hospital admins with a passion.
Dorothy Adams
Yeah that's right
John Osborne
Why didn't they just leave it
John Osborne
The new is one is fucking shit lol all the corridors and doorways are to narrow
Reuben Lee
Rark em up Johnny
Nalda Somers-Carr
Is that a new one being built in the background ?
Patricia August
Is it too.much to expect the materials will be recycled?
Elizabeth Willoughby
My daughter was born there in 2018
Jennifer Gaskell
I can remember when this Hospital was built, showing my age.
Marion Corbin
Jennifer Gaskell same here jennifer plus worked there 1963,,,,-,1966
Dave Mackie
So that'll be the end of Maclaurin Ward (named after my old man).
Heather Newby
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Dave Mackie i remember that ward
Martin Burt
Dave Mackie pretty sure I remember him.
Dave Mackie
Martin Burt I'll find a pic of him. Back in a bit.
Dave Mackie
Martin Burt
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Martin Burt
Dave Mackie yup, thats him. As a student nurse, I remember being present while he filled a gentleman up with diazepam prior to reshocking his heart to get a normal rhythm going again. He needed a bucket load as he had a high tolerance
Top bloke and bloody good doctor
Danae Russell
I was very sick as an 11 year old in 1994 and I will be forever grateful to Sue Rapley and Alice Faulkner for their care and support for the 9 months I was in Parfitt ward. I believe you helped to save my life. I cannot thank you enough.
I remember when that was all state of the art...
Maureen McCrimmon
Martin Burt same
Robert Ray
Shouldn't be pulled down until the new first aid building is sorted
Jude Nicoll
Robert Ray mental health is staying for now anyway
Shaun Burgess
no great lose
Paul Sweeney
Built by Barrow brothers
Kathy Duthie
my husband and brother in law worked on this site; warren was the crane opperater
Dale Felmingham
I can remember it being built back in about 1974 and it was designed to be "earthquake proof" and to last!!!!
Trish Rennie
I worked for RA Garlick then and they did the steelwork for the place...would have like to witness them deconstructing that...
Jeffrey Peacock
had my arm amputated in that hospital ....and funny enough it was garlicks fault to a degree
Stu McConchie
Hmmm bad memories in there. One place I'm glad to see go. Lost a child here
Alan Messenger
What was built in 1974? I am 84 and remember the hospital always being there.
Martin Burt
Alan Messenger the new buildings are the 3rd version I know of on the hospital site
Bernadette Hannah
Alan Messenger rebuilt in1974 .
Michelle Macilquham
Move along...new one here
Caroline Jane Barnes
Katie Barnes
Kim Broadhurst
Wow Alan Shaw that will look very different!!
Gordon Dixon
My dad helped with all the plumbing with this part of the hospital with loves construction
Lucia Cory
So sad to see
Karyn Bousfield
Lucia Cory so many memories!
Lucia Cory
Karyn Bousfield I know my first job in NZ . So many beautiful memories
Kayla Brennan
James Brennan
Kaylee Thomson
Bye Borice Teresa Goodman Liz Wilson
Helen-Eileen Pilcher
Kaylee Thomson wow so sad!
Teresa Goodman
Kaylee Thomson so sad
Nick Westwood
Alison Westwood is this the one dad built?
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Alison Westwood
Nick Westwood yes it is ."bloody shame ".
We saw the windows being removed when over there. Quite sad really.
Lyn Whittle
Was state of the art once
Monica Harvey
I worked there many years ago next time I Come down it won't seem the same somehow but I'm so pleased you have a new hospital could someone tell me how old it is
Heather Newby
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Monica Harvey it was built around 1970 and was ready to move in ..1971
Evelyn Hampton
I started there in 1978 , they were still building the new hospital then
Therese Gibb
Sam Chalmers
Natesha Ramsay
I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did. How many quakes did it go through? Such a shame. My grandmother took her last breath in Morice Ward in 2018. I spent 2.5 weeks in ICU in 2012. Very thankful to all those nurses and docs for saving my life.
Andy Bone
Let hope fletchers are not evolved
Brenda Yorston
A part of me feels really sad seeing it demolished did my training there have really good memories guess we need to move on
Patrick Nicholls
This you demoing
Tomas Payn ?
Lisa Scott
born there!!
Anne Allan
Lisa Scott me too
Mike Payn
Anne Allan me three
John Paget
My parents both died in there so i will not miss it.
Vern Pattinson
John Paget mine the same
Bronwyn Hibbs
Spent many a week of my early childhood in Hannah Ward after being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Some awesome memories of wonderful Sisters (Baltrop, Graham etc) and the lovely nurses - I got to help out making beds up, spital boxes, pushing the but… See More
Ingrid Warren
Born there 1971
Mel Higson
Born there 1969
Deborah Bowden
Born there too yo and my Dad worked there for years yo
Carolyn Murphy
They killed my mother so good ridence. Unscreened blood.
Brenda Gill
It would never have come down built to last ,lack of maintenance?..
Charil Milne
My mum did her training there
Elizabeth Shaw
My husband was born there in 1944
Tony Nolan
Was born there 1956...
Sheryl Iraia
Trained there and had my first son there. It was such an improvement from the old OBrien and Seddon Wards
Dave Steers
I was a apprentice plumber when they built this 1.I think the builder was Barrow bros.
Mary Fenemor
Dave Steers Batty and Sweeney had the Plumbing contract then
Dave Steers
Mary Fenemor yes I worked for them.
Alison Blogs
had tonsils and gall bladder removed there.
Julz Rangihika
Sad. Spent alot of time there with my daughter who was a conic asthmatic. We lived in Westport at the time the travel there in the ambulance was horrible..... then finding our own way back to Westport was worse
Bruce Knight
A Coaster who now lives in the US. I was born in McBreaty(sp?) in 1951, and can recall the current hospital being built. My daughter spent some time there with 3rd degree burns. So what gives with the demolition? What’s replacing this hospital? Tha… See More
Linzi Woods
Bruce Knight They have a new one built - some doctors say not fit for purpose
Jillene Magee
In the windows after hospital changed over new premises there was hand made sign hanging up and it stated Farewell Grey Hospital, and it was either 1917, or maybe 1921. Someone. Might know the answer to this.
Mandy Bruce
I was born in that hospital in 1955. Not sure the New one is really fit for purpose though, time will tell.
Ann Knipe
I started my nursing training there in 1972. In 49 years of nursing in Grey I have watched two hospitals being built, and two hospitals being demolished. How time flys.
Sheryl O'Leary
Very sad. Did my nursing training there and what a great all round education I received. My husband David worked for Barrow Brothers and helped build the hospital. Lots of wonderful memories and wonderful people who I worked with at Grey Hospital.
Graeme Peters
All my hard work gone spent three years of my life wiring that place
Joshua Kearns
Graeme Peters would that have been with mims cable back then, Or more steel conduit?
Mary Fenemor
Graeme Peters and what a Great Job, that would have Been to , just Like Ron's Plumbing Job there, all those Years ago , by a Wallsend and a Taylorville, Young Men !
Linzi Woods
I was born there 1954 - don't remember it though. luckily
Shelley Hand
Kinda sad really to see it go.
Jan Sowman
A lovely hospital and the Drs and Nurses fantastic. Will be forever indebted to them
Bronwen Skates
started my training in 1970 and loved it , the wards were always full and busy , great staff , great memories .
Peta Jones
I was there for a week with a bad concussion from falling head first off tricycle at age 5. It happened on Bright St coming back from the beach. The last words I heard was my mum telling me I was going too fast...so I went faster!
That was 1956. Some… See More
Cherie Liddell
What is the plan for the space where it was?
Ann Knipe
Car parking.
Tracy Gillman
Born there 1969
Jayne Duncan
Son born there and my mother Pat Rankin worked there for many years.
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Greg King
How sad. This is where I arrived on the 23rd of July 1960. Dad had a double celebration as he was a father for the first time and the All Blacks beat South Africa 11-3 at Newlands Cape Town.
Glenn Tomlinson
I think I was born there. Or was that an older part
Heather Newby
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Glenn Tomlinson I was nursing trainingin 1971 and the old maternity ward was still in use
Wayne Thornton
I suppose all WCDHB money went on this nothing for Westport
Paul Agnes Smith
Terrible place. Glad to see it go. Born there in 1948, couldn't walk or talk for quite some time after.......
Steph JF
I believe barrow brothers were involved in the construction. 2 of my sons were born there too. So sad to see it go
Aroha Meihana
Sad. My daughters were born there and so was their dad. My oldest girl had same midwife their dad did.
Neville Moka
I was born there,another era gone.
Sharyn Simpson
Another bit of my history disappears.I was born there.
Alan N Barb Cochrane
Alan & I where born there plus our two children Donna 1967 & Robert 1968
Gary Williams
Like all smaller towns in ÑZ these sort of utìlity buildings do the most but get the bloody least! !!!!!
Jordyn Coppell
Gary Williams agreed I'm only 27 and respect what your saying
Tim Kiddie
No way I was born there. 1964. My Grandfather worked there. My name was Anita Thompson before I married my husband. His F.B Page. So sad.
Anita Hale
I was born there in 64
Rosalie Fuller
Anita Hale me in 1951
Lyn Galvin
I was born there in 1948
Felicity Cowper
Lets be thankful we have hospitals in this country and say that Greymouth Hospital has served to the best of its ability.
Felicity Cowper
Time to build a safer and earthquake proof Hospital. Most the brick anything is going from Christchurch........it doesn't stand in a severe earthquake like the two we've had. Sometimes its time to build anew. we can look forward to a more updated Hospi… See More
Val Whittaker
So many happy memories here when I was a young nurse working under Steve Barclay a very clever surgeon
Robin Gibbens
Sad in a nice kind of way born there in 54, new is way safer for all
Wayne Nicholson
Robin Gibbens 54 ? are you sure . LoL
Janine Manson
My son was born there in 1991
Gary Rauhihi
Born there had my tonsils out there and mum worked there. Sad
Diana Hende
Very sad day. I worked there for many years and our two daughters were born there. Many happy memories
Karina Cook
My mum olene Jones was a nurse there
Elaine Rainey
A wonderful place to work. Great memories. Great staff/ colleagues. Started my nursing in 1969 in the old hospital and watched the building of this one. Worked in this one as when it opened for 22 years.
Pam Eddy
Born there on Xmas day 1949 .
Jean Mehrtens
Born there and both the parents who raised me died there ... what will be there in the future?
Karl Barkley
Jean Mehrtens A Car Park
Pauline Walsh
Me to sis I was born there plus to of my children
S
Jenny Rickard
Born there in 1945 I remember it was a very good hospital. \
Yvonne Mirfin
I was born there and my four sons also ..
Garry Chapman
Should have new hospital paid off in time to demolish it and rebuild
Jane Andrews
Lots of memories for me too!
Anne Miller Mcmillan
Am seein third hospital in my life time for Greymouth. My dad was head painter at first when i was 11 years old. then hospital they now demolishing and now new one. lots of memories and work history for me .
Deborah Marley
I much prefer the old hosp....the new one is disorganised and sloppily run
Karl Barkley
What a Waste of Good Money which could have been Spent on Maintenance! But how do you Down Size ? Well Built something Newer Poorer Quality & then you Destroy what you had saying it's an Earthquake Risk so what if it shakes ! See how long the Fletchers… See More
Bruce Dando
Karl Barkley who's land all that be dumped on.
Graham Hunt
what a waist now we have substandard care and you can not even get to see a DR any more in the new hospital it is such a shambles there
Kerrie Lee
The 1970s extension had some very modern design thinking incorporated. Big windows that let fresh air and light in, plus gave patients a view & a connection to the outside (good for mental health). Wide hallways that could fit two beds passing by side … See More
Sue Abbott
I worked in Barclay ward cleaning Saturdays and Sundays for quite a while. In winter time the wind from the sea just whistled around the building!!
Doris Blanchard
I had my tonsils removed in the Greymouth hospital in 1940. It may have been a different building then.
Jonesy Wolfhunter Jones
Remember Mum looking out the window at us because we weren’t allowed to visit.. it was the previous wooden hospital.. when she was there for a her nerves.. I remember the night she collapsed and dad couldn’t open the back door.
Carol Jones
I can remember when it was new 50 years ago
Brian Boustridge
I remember walking in to work in it when it was brand new
Helen Joan Forrest
I remember that being built when I was working in Victoria Ward and Seddon Ward. That was part of the old hospital and now the new one is being knocked down. Sad.
Nathan Righton
Roddy Craigie remember dropping you off here lol
Karl Hasson
Rosslyn Weaver
I was born in McBrearty Annex in 1941 & worked in x_ray dept as secretary 1957-58 approx
Russell Murphy
My Brother helped build that. What ever happened to Barrow Brothers?
Rachel Willoughby
My daughter was born there in 2001 (my room was one right down end by the dayroom )and my som in 2014
Kathryn Ward
Is there a new one going to be built?
Ian Selwood
Kathryn Ward Where have you been the last 3years..?
Ian Selwood
They picked great weather for that today...!!!
Melissa Costello
Miss the old one.
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Julie Lucas
Agree very sad as but lots of good memories
Bruce Macnab
About time so out dated
Che Norris
Born there in November 1974. The memories there! XXxX.
Dorothy Adams
Brian Adams your Father help build that hospital, I use to go have lunch with him, fish N chips, sometimes
Riyadh Riyadh Riyadh
Dorothy Adams such a cool memory to have!
Ann Knipe
I found this 1970's photo of the hospital construction. The circled building is the area that is being demolished at the moment. Behind it is the area that was to be the site of the 'new' theatre block and Central Sterilizing.
Glenn Tomlinson
Ann Knipe And the hostel next door. Didn't realise the houses next to the hostel were built in the 70',s
Barb Watkins
My eldest daughter was born there'
Bernadette Hannah
Interesting
Kay Nichols
I hope it is a move in the right direction. Fixing decaying buildings keeps my brother busy
Kath Gordon
Born there 1940
Des Kennedy
I was born there exactly 75 years ago on 18 January.
Wendy Ritchie
LOL I am the only one of six siblings who wasn't born there. They remind me often that I am the odd one out.
Ann Harris
Kirsty Klempel
I was born there
Lyla Al-Alawi
Wow didn’t know they’re doing that
Chris Moriarty
If it’s McBrearty Ward......three sons born there. Great staff and medical care in the seventies.
Helen Ruscoe
Quite sad. Progress eh?
Denese Joy Keenan
My sister was born there 1960 Karen Smith-Colligan
Joanne Wallace
Me too
Karen Da Via
The men who built the old hospital say there was so much steel put in when it was being built that it would never fall down. I suspect the same can't be said for the new one.
Brenda Gill
Karen Da Via the new one seems to be a lemon
Lorraine Hensley
I was born they’re in 1951
Jude Smail
I’ve heard exactly the same thing said
Barb Rodway
My dad was the hospital engineer, for most of his life, also was at Reefton for a while
Linda Howard
The sad truth is the people who work....or have worked there have put their soul and heart into it...only to be destroyed by the stupid fools up top who have no idea of how a Hospital should be run...it’s all about profit....they do not understand that sick people are not a supermarket.
Diane Harmon Tackney
Linda Howard I agree - I was in there in Oct last year for 12 days the nursing staff were absolutely fantastic but was not pleased with the medical staff at all what do you expect when they are locums bought in from different parts of NZ
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Dave Mackie
Linda Howard dad was a doctor there from 1968-1980 and he hated the hospital admins with a passion.
Dorothy Adams
Yeah that's right
John Osborne
Why didn't they just leave it
John Osborne
The new is one is fucking shit lol all the corridors and doorways are to narrow
Reuben Lee
Rark em up Johnny
Nalda Somers-Carr
Is that a new one being built in the background ?
Patricia August
Is it too.much to expect the materials will be recycled?
Elizabeth Willoughby
My daughter was born there in 2018
Jennifer Gaskell
I can remember when this Hospital was built, showing my age.
Marion Corbin
Jennifer Gaskell same here jennifer plus worked there 1963,,,,-,1966
Dave Mackie
So that'll be the end of Maclaurin Ward (named after my old man).
Heather Newby
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Dave Mackie i remember that ward
Martin Burt
Dave Mackie pretty sure I remember him.
Dave Mackie
Martin Burt I'll find a pic of him. Back in a bit.
Dave Mackie
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Martin Burt
Dave Mackie yup, thats him. As a student nurse, I remember being present while he filled a gentleman up with diazepam prior to reshocking his heart to get a normal rhythm going again. He needed a bucket load as he had a high tolerance
Top bloke and bloody good doctor
Danae Russell
I was very sick as an 11 year old in 1994 and I will be forever grateful to Sue Rapley and Alice Faulkner for their care and support for the 9 months I was in Parfitt ward. I believe you helped to save my life. I cannot thank you enough.
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West Coast New Zealand History (1st Sep 2022). Greymouth hospital demolition, started January 19, 2021. In Website West Coast New Zealand History. Retrieved 12th Apr 2026 04:43, from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/28890