Union Hotel at the height of the flood, Greymouth.1988.

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DescriptionPeter Toal.."This is the second flood of 1988 and just about everyone that came to the hotel to help us lift as much as we could got stranded upstairs. the water came up so fast we forgot to take up some drinks so we had to swim back to the bar for drink supplies and some nice guys in a jet boat dropped off Fish and chips for tea."Date of Photo1988Map^[1]ContributorPeter Toal

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Location (city or town)GreymouthOrganisation (eg business)Union Hotel EventUnion Hotel at the height of the flood, Greymouth.1988.

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Date Created30th May 2021CommentsCheryl Hedley
Gosh the water is high

Ladee Czar
Gosh I was only 6 but still remember the water around us it was so freaking high

Deb Griffiths
good coasters

Kerry Molloy
service must go on-regardless Jims amazing devotion to customers .i worked behind that bar briefly.The raceway carvery-still without peer for a good solid meal at a reasonable price.

Kerry Molloy
I remeber it vivdly .placing sandbags ouin the doorway of my sisters shop beside ron messengers only to have that old bitch the grey river come right in!the boys in blue patrolling greymouth in their hamilton jet boat and the sheer amount of gravel and crap right through the business centre the next day . actually canterbury is going to be very similar once this epic shoots through!

Anne Honey
I love that especially the delivery of fish and chips early uber? Thanks for the laugh

Brian Hope
John Butler RIP .

Caity Grant-Hows
Gosh, even In a state of emergency, The locals still find a way to get drunk

Margaret Grant
Caity Grant-Hows lol

Megan Rossiter
Caity Grant-Hows that's priorities right there

Barb Rodway
Definitely a priority, but then these locals would be on hand to help rescue and recover in an emergency .

Jane Ross
Will never forget that year.

Sue Vaughan
John Butler - RIP. What a good man. And is that Michael Coakley ex Schaefs?

Mary Hopkins
I remember

Ken Lavender
Was the barman the same guy who ran the vulcan hotel in Central Otago till recently

Alan Pegley
Barman is my cousin Jimmy Toal

Susan Ann James
My boyfriend at the time worked at the duke that didn't fare well either

Glenda O'Donnell
Well who is the man that is having a sleep lol

Yvonne Jean
Glenda O'Donnell someone will know

Louise Blair
Heard it was all the jet boats that blew out all the windows though the town. Hind sight

Kevin Bell
The in-laws lived just up the road in Herbert St.

Jenny Leach
Yep I thought when I heard that name when it came up that it would be your relative

Esther Edwards
Oh wow,but nice being stranded in the pub as long as no injuries occured

Michael Nottingham
Bit of a silly to and throe going on here don't you think? Thought the photo captured the endurance of Coasters, particularly those stranded in the Pub.........

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Union Hotel at the height of the flood, Greymouth.1988.

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