Tony Kokshoorn: Ruru loco, sawmill and our Mill House, circa 1959 PHOTO ALBUM

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DescriptionTony Kokshoorn: Ruru loco, sawmill and our Mill House, circa 1959 Date of Photo1959Map^[1]ContributorTony Kokshoorn

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Location (city or town)RuruPersonTony KokshoornLandmark (Place)Ruru sawmillRuru locoTony Kokshoorn's houseEventKokshoorn family

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Date Created2nd June 2021CommentsJune Edwards
Our neighbours at RuRu Your lovely mum and dad Kathy and Frank

Gillian Castle
June Edwards would mum have known them June?

Colin Colleen Martin
We remember the photos wonderful aunties and uncles

June Edwards
No Gillian I can remember when they got married and we went Tin Kettling when they came back from there honeymoon Funny things that stay in your mind I cant remember how old I was Tony May tell us how old he is in the photo then I’d know

Tony Kokshoorn

June Edwards In 1959 I was 4 years old.

June Edwards
Thanks Tony can work it out and let my cousin Gillian know how long it was that her mum left RuRu for Chch Certainly was many years before this photo was taken I would have been 18

Lorraine O'Donoghue
June Edwards hey I had forgotten about the days of tin kettling! Just imagine if we did it now.

June Edwards
Think those days have gone for good Lorraine Would be great to have them back againKerry Molloy
Tony -right below your father -no mistaking that face-David a bit shy was he??.ah the lovely days at lake brunner school eh!

Owen Winstanley
I doubt that the photo of the house was taken in 1959 when Tony's family lived in it. I can't imagine that Frank would have tolerated his family living in a house with holes in the walls and overgrown grass and neither would the mill owners. Furtherm… See More

June Edwards
Cant see any holes in the walls and overgrown grass we lived next door and I can assure you the all the houses weren’t painted Iwas born there and lived there till my late teens ours wasn’t painted nor Kokshoorns What about all the blackberry’s that … See More

Tony Kokshoorn

Hi June. You are both correct The photo with us is 1959 and the painted house is obviously later. Great to here from you June and Owen . Alf Winstanley was the manager of the mill for many years.
JohnJanis Fensom
You Havn't changed at all Tony.

Bryce Smith
Thanks. Great days.

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Tony Kokshoorn: Ruru loco, sawmill and our Mill House, circa 1959 *PHOTO ALBUM*

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Tony Kokshoorn: Ruru loco, sawmill and our Mill House, circa 1959 PHOTO ALBUM