First School, with teachers cottage next door on banks of Card Creek.Marsden .

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DescriptionMarsden.First School, with teachers cottage next door on banks of Card Creek.This school became the Marsden Hall in 1940 s a supper room was added at front circa 1940 s.Some social events my Father,Len Lane used the cottage to distribute Peas, Pies, and Spuds, yum, I still remember that.Map^[1]ContributorJillian Johnson

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Location (city or town)MarsdenCard creekLandmark (Place)First Marsden School

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Date Created25th May 2021CommentsLeo Fisher
len drove the winch when iworked for stratford and blairs had some great memories of him and those days

Bronwen Skates
my husbands great aunt Nora O'Donnell was an early teacher at Cards Creek. I think there is a photo of her in Valley of the little Towns
Susan Barlow
Jillian Johnson! Jillian LANE! (I can still picture you getting onto the school bus to Grey High in Paroa! Blonde hair cut in a bob!) I always used to wonder how you got back to your home ... did you walk like we did?
Jillian Johnson

Most of the time ...yes....

Lynn Tacon
My dad Jack fisher worked up the bush, Len used to take dad to work and home when we lived in greymouth 1957 and 8

Lynn Tacon
David lane lens son was a brickie and worked on the new ngahere school up the hill from the old school when we lived in ngahere next door to the old school.

Jillian Johnson
Learnt to swim in Card creek not that deep in the 1940s but big eels…..we always called it Cards force of habit…..when I used to go to high school Dad would sometimes take me to Jack Fisher and wife to wait for school to start
Think they lived Shakespeare St…..Jillian Johnson (Lane)

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First School, with teachers cottage next door on banks of Card Creek.Marsden .

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