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DescriptionWhat aromas remind you of your childhood.For me its Dad`s Brylcreme,Mum`s sweet peas,mussels cooking, and coal smoke.Map[1] ContributorHeather Newby
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Location (city or town)Blaketown, GreymouthEventWhat smells remind you of your childhood.
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Date Created28th December 2021CommentsTania Mcilroy
Coal fire and vege soup heating on the coal range
Sharon Rennie
flowering currant shrub
Heather Newby
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Sharon Rennie just llove flowering currant.. im going to get one now that you have reminded me.. another one is lemon verbena
Lorraine Anderson
The smell of milk fresh hot straight from the cow, poured over my weetbix…. Breakfast at the dairy shed
Fresh Whitebait patties cook over the driftwood fire by the river
Tracy Kentish
Tallies fisheries lol
Stu McConchie
The coal smoke mixed with the ocean
Mary Griffith's
Mum cooking tripe & onions she always cooked it for me when she visited I couldn't cook it like her
Heather Newby
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Mary Griffith's i love tripe and onions
Yvonne Lawson
Coal smoke.
KevinandMargaret Mills
Coal fires
Teresa Mathewson Tait
Coal smoke n the winter and beach bon fires in the summer
Heather Newby
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Teresa Mathewson Tait burnt fingers and exploding stones in the fire
Lyn Astin-Hill
Christmas lillies
Heather Newby
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Lyn Astin-Hill yes.. Mum had a lot of Christmas lillies.
Valda Spicer
Coal fired and my mum's cooking.
Bob Jamieson
Definitely coal smoke.
Elaine Rainey
The smell from the Coal fires in the lounge and from the kitchen stove Watching the flames from these fires. Cooking potatoes wrapped in tin foil on a driftwood fire down on the Cameron’s beach. Those potatoes tasted so nice. So did the roasts and scones made in the coal range
Jude Wastney
Coal fires, diesel from the coal trucks, whitebait and home made chips cooking, Sunday roast are just some
Alva Mundy
The smell of the coal smoke .My mother cooking meals on the coal range
Amber Long
Definitely coal smoke. I used to deliver The Press in the mornings for a few years when I was a teenager and the smoke in the mornings was literally choking.
Heather Newby
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Amber Long yes, it doesnt lift until it gets warmer in the mornings
Judy Reeves
WENT T WESPORT 4 FEW DAYS STAYED 14 YRS & IT IS THE COAL SMELL & RAIN IS MY MEOMRY GOOD PLACE
Margaret Malloch
The rain and beautiful fresh air
Judy Davis
The bush
Guy Hahn
Coal smoke and the Bush whe it rained
Wendy McDiarmid
Coal
Marty Agnew
Yip coal fire smoke and the stench on the beer soaked carpet coming from the Railway hotel
Murray Saunders
And the eagle….
Allan Quinn
Coal fire smell
Jock Allen
The L ong Drop
Margaret Kaa
Coal fires, mums roast in the coal range , sweet peas, scones on the 'girdle', venison pot roast when dad got back from 'the tops'
Christine Farrell
Coal smoke and Bush smell. ALSO WHITEBAIT SMELL !!
Bronwyn Hibbs
Being in the bush after it rains
Trevor Coleman
Walking home from primary school at lunch time and smelling them boiling off the hops at Morleys brewery
Sandra Rooney
Coal smoke from train, much better than diesel stink
Clint Templeman
The grey river methane smell
Mel Higson
Coal burning in the coal range.
Absolutely love that smell
Ross Barrow
Has to be the old coal rangeLindsay Thompson
And the smell of rotting vegetation.
Murray Saunders
Surfing 9 Mile on a low tide exposed the mussel beds on the reef.
That salty decaying odour.
And … See more
Jason Mellett
Coal smoke in the air in Reefton, and dimp.
Heather Newby
Jason Mellett i remember Dimp too
Sharyn Lodge
the smells of a coal range, cows, timber, and the bush.
Tony Warner
Underground at Denniston after a shot has been fired the smell of the smoke from the explosion probably not good for you but what a marvellous aroma as you were hooking up the next shot usually 9/10 shots per round was great…then the milli sec dets arr… See more
Heather Newby
Tony Warner interesting,, I went down dobson mine with dad one day and watched him fire a shot. .. a ten foot drill with a six foot extension and tamp with gelignite..stand back and watch.
Richard Howe
I think first would be the coal smoke smell from the fires at the homes, then the damp earthy smell in the bush, and then the salty air as the wind came off the sea. Not as a child though, as a grown up visitor. I love the smells of the West Coast.
Shane Moore
coal smoke and the bush
Marg Power
Cooking crayfish on the beach. Yummie
Alan Smith
Love burning pine cones on an open fire
AnnetteandNick Harrison
The smell of coal fires and the freshness of the Bush after the rain.
Rik Jayde
winfield red 25's
Priscilla-Chang Newton
I would have to say it would be the mussels at the bottom of seventeen - mile hill we used to cook a copper full I told Cilla she shouldn't eat so many and sure enough, she was sick at the top of the hill.
Donna Brydon
Old spice and menthol cigarettes
Bob Laing
The smell of the bush straight after rain, the smell of the sea on the beach, smoke from fires on the beach. We used to cook mussels on a sheet of corrugated iron, over a fire on the beach, just heaven for a young chap of 5-7.
Brent Tomlinson
Dad cooking mutton birds!
We shut the door and went to the lounge
Heather Newby
Brent Tomlinson hate that smell..
Berni Veale
Brent Tomlinson a smell like no other stinks
Kevin Oregan
Roast lamb cooking, grilling chops on top of the coalrange. Kevin
Lorraine Murdoch
Brent. When dad was cooking mutton birds I would wait in bed until he called they were ready and then get up to share with him
Best nights ever.
Chris Burles
Coal Smoke
Nicole Hargraves
The ground before it rains and coal smoke
Bruce Shrimpton
The fresh warm bread outside on the trays cooling at the bakery in Tainui St on way home from the movies.. It tasted even better than the smell.
Anne Bruce
Freshly city paddock of hay grass, sheep being shorn, the pig sty. Mum's cooking, cabbage on the coal range at 3pm to eat at 5pm. Disgusting, it turned pink.
Heather Newby
Anne Bruce i remember that too.. Mum used to boil cabbage with corned beef .. for ages
Les Bryce
we used to count the soldiers on the back of the fire place on a coal fire
Sheryl Elizabeth Paki
coal smoke always remind me of home
Helen Fennell
possum skins and homemade ginger beer
Brian McMahon
Smoke from fires and steam trains
Brent David
Living on the terrace above the brewery… boiling hops
Clare Pierson
Brent David living beside a brewery and the smell of ht hops coming down a chute onto the back of a truck.
Robert Mathewson
That hop smell.
Alan Smith
Brent David that's to true Brent
Edwin Lord
Mum's Sunday Roast and Coal Smoke and brylcreme used to smoother my hair in it when I was a Teenager maybe that's why I'm bald now
Shona Williams
Coal and fern early morning
Colleen Cochrane
The coal smell its home love it
George Gardner
The 'humdinger' doing its weekly rounds of our long drops!
Janine Norcliffe
The smell waking up to freshly made whitebait patties ..for breakfast ..caught that morning .
Mark Humphreys
All of the above
Rob Lunn
It still does it for me fifty odd years after my childhood the smell of fresh rain on a warm day you only get that on the Coast can’t be beat
Bazza Morland
The smell of wet Tarmac after a dry spell Rob .
Lynn Hopkins
Oh yum yum
Lana Vargas
The smell of the minerals in the water when you were near a creek or river.
Helen Brennan
Memories of coming of the train to the smell off coal range with a pot of veggie soup and home made stew after walking down railway line ona rainy day in Runanga
Sheryl Iraia
The smell of a storm coming up off the sea. Love that salty tang.
Tania Newman
Coal and the smell of the ferns & bush
Chris Kelly
O yer looking good, my dad had the best recipe mick kelly him and fredee and us kids use to pick them up the coast rd
Raewyn Louttit
George Abourizk
Hamish White
On a sheet of coro bit of drift wood smoke
Bazza Morland
The smell of Castrol 'R' eminating from the lawnmower , Bliss !
Paul Huffam
I recall well when a chaff sack of oysters from Bluff would arrive on the overnight train from Christchurch. It was a lovely feast of these delicacies, and it didn't take too long for us kids to learn how to remove them from the shells! Dad must have had a good contact to have them delivered by train from Stillwater to Ikamatua.
John Kaye
Mum cooking tripe and onions
Susan Barlow
The smell of the bush.
Judy Crestani
Sea weed after a storm. The smell of coal
Lyn Thompson
Clothes drying on pully contraption in kitchen by coal range ..hated the smell of wet wool and work clothes drying ..coal and the bush ..
Jeni Waters
wet tarseal, when the sun comes back out and the road starts to steam
Rosemary Thomas
The sweet smell of the bush, - is nowhere else in the world
Kleah Boyd
Wood and coal smoke,Talleys,diesel at the wharf..stale beer as you walked past a pub.....
Ken Jackson
The Bush getting close to Reefton from "over the hill "
Shauna Costello
Coal smoke, fresh mown grass and sea spray.
Annie Mae
Coal smoke helenbrennan i walked the same line to that pot of Stew at the same house to our favorite auntyxx
Margaret Mckee
Flowering currant bushes, and coal fires
Felicity Welford
Lucy Brown Kate Meers WogandKellie Ramsden
Christopher Morresey
Now that is a great photo .Would some of those with the same name be Father and son .
Carol Cook
Sharleen Davidson Tammie O'Neill
Clint Davidson Grandad in back row
Tammie O'Neill
Think this one is on the wall at the Club
Steve Butler
Tammie O'Neill correct Sandy butler is in it too
Kerry Adams
Paula Pengelly Sandra Trembath Linda Aynsley your grandad third row
Judy Cairns
jamie have a look
Vern Pattinson
Few Pattinsons in that photo
Susan Barlow
The smell of the bush.
Judy Crestani
Sea weed after a storm. The smell of coal
Lyn Thompson
Clothes drying on pully contraption in kitchen by coal range ..hated the smell of wet wool and work clothes drying ..coal and the bush ..
Jeni Waters
wet tarseal, when the sun comes back out and the road starts to steam
Rosemary Thomas
The sweet smell of the bush, - is nowhere else in the world
Kleah Boyd
Wood and coal smoke,Talleys,diesel at the wharf..stale beer as you walked past a pub.....
Ken Jackson
The Bush getting close to Reefton from "over the hill "
Shauna Costello
Coal smoke, fresh mown grass and sea spray.
Annie Mae
Coal smoke helenbrennan i walked the same line to that pot of Stew at the same house to our favorite auntyxx
Margaret Mckee
Flowering currant bushes, and coal fires
Marie Tern
Lupins in flower. The lagoon
Lesley Parker Butland
Whitebait patties
Louis Brown
Driftwood burning in the Rayburn while I’m whipping up some pancakes for breakfast
Peter Moore
So many.But the bush and home cooking was pretty good and still is.Been in Canterbury for years.But a regular visitor. Don't let it change.The Diamond in NZS Jewel.
Jacqui Espinoza
Coal
Lois Millar
blackberries
Bryce Smith
Fishing
Jude Alfeld
The smell of the sea
Van Zollweg
Awsome....you make me miss home
James Newby
Who can remember the smell/taste of mint sauce on the Sunday leg of lamb roast,I still can stand that smell all these years later.
Stacey Mather - Clouston
Definitely the coal fires. Brought tears to my eyes one evening bringing mums ashes home and knowing as we went through Stillwater, where she grew up, she was finally home, just as she had asked me to do. But it was the smell of people's fires burning that did me in. That was when I knew we were home
Brian McIntyre
Coal smoke and the sea
Jenny Mclellan
Yum are you cooking me some brian
Tony Kirwan
fresh sawdust....flax....whitebait patties....
Natasha Armstrong
The smell of coal burning. As soon as I smell that, I know I am home.
Shelley Naylor
The smell of the open coal fire at my Grandparents in little ol Blackball and the smell of the sea in Hokitika where I grew up.
Lois Little
Coal range,dad cooking mutton birds yuk,blackberry an apple pie mum cooked we picked ,grans favourite for us fried cabbage an onions loved it cabbage still a fave veg an the Sunday roast,those were the days
KevinandMargaret Mills
Coal smoke
Heather Newby
KevinandMargaret Mills yes.. its a very distinctive smell
John Kelly
Mussels and coal smoke
Cheryl Hedley
Lucerne Hay, Dads Old Spice aftershave, home made bread
John Ryall
Kerosene lamps no electricity rolls of Bacon’s hanging from the ceiling
Heather Newby
John Ryall i remember the kerosene smell too
Janine Norcliffe
Old Spice ..
Bob Jamieson
Coal smoke.
Bronwen Skates
For me the smell of coal . Also smell of wood on open fire in lounge . Coal tar soap that dad used and smell remained long after he passed. The smell of ironing as mum ironed everything always at wooden kitchen table and my favorite was smell of toast … See more
Rebekah Fairhurst Geer
Dads Pipe tobacco, mums Oil of Ulan, mushy peas cooking, & camp fires
Heather Newby
Rebekah Fairhurst Geer i love the smell of pipe tobacco
Debbie Hughes
Driftwood from the tasman burning in a bonfire at the 12 mile Bach.
Edwin Lord
Coal Smoke, Dads Park Royal pipe Smoke,and of course the Old Sunday Roast Cooking.
KevinandMargaret Mills
Coal smoke
Heather Newby
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KevinandMargaret Mills yes.. its a very distinctive smell
John Kelly
Mussels and coal smoke
Cheryl Hedley
Lucerne Hay, Dads Old Spice aftershave, home made bread
John Ryall
Kerosene lamps no electricity rolls of Bacon’s hanging from the ceiling
Frances Carey
I remember bacon hanging from ceiling in Kumara!
Janine Norcliffe
Old Spice ..
Bob Jamieson
Coal smoke.
Bronwen Skates
For me the smell of coal . Also smell of wood on open fire in lounge . Coal tar soap that dad used and smell remained long after he passed. The smell of ironing as mum ironed everything always at wooden kitchen table and my favorite was smell of toast made over embers of coalrange. My lovely childhood in Reefton
Rebekah Fairhurst Geer
Dads Pipe tobacco, mums Oil of Ulan, mushy peas cooking, & camp fires
Heather Newby
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Rebekah Fairhurst Geer i love the smell of pipe tobacco
Debbie Hughes
Driftwood from the tasman burning in a bonfire at the 12 mile Bach.
Dennis Wick
Debbie Hughes yes Cuz, with mussels cooking on an old sheet of corrugated iron over the is Grandads old bach still at 12 mile.?
Edwin Lord
Coal Smoke, Dads Park Royal pipe Smoke,and of course the Old Sunday Roast Cooking.
Heather Newby
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admins updated
Kaye Render
every time I go to Westport I stop at the gorge side of the Buller bridge and smell the air brings back all the childhood memories ! guess thats the coal smoke .
Ken Green
mutton birds boiling for days vomit
Heather Newby
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Ken Green crikey,, it stinks!!
Ronrangi McMullan
Percy Hurren's fresh-baked bread straight from oven at 6am daily
Linda Erikson
The gas works in Greymouth. Also the waft of beer and cigarettes when you passed a pub
Alan Beck
Linda Erikson With whitewashed windows halfway.
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Bruce Watson
Coal fires
Wendy McDiarmid
Coal smoke reminds me of my nana.
Colleen Cochrane
Kk
Stephen Harris
The Dominion Brewery with a brew on
Deborah Marley
My mums Sunday roast
Teri-anne Bell
Freesias remind me of my Gandparents at 9 Mile
Heather Newby
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Teri-anne Bell I remember a lot of people in Greymouth used to grow freesias
Teri-anne Bell
Heather Newby yes, I remember my grandparents had them and now whenever I smell freesias it brings back lovely memories of them
Miriam Rogers
My nana ruby beautiful smells and hugs
Heather Newby
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Miriam Rogers Moonlight Mist talcum powder
Deb Ramage
The smell of coal for me. And mums boiled cabbage for 3 hrs.
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Heather Newby
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Deb Ramage um used to cook corned beef on the coal range along with cabbage and the cabbage was disgusting.. cooked for hours.
Kath Rogers
Cut grass, reminds me of hockey practice at Cass Square in Hokitika
Jen Booth
Dad's keresene cooker,and the black smoke it sometimes put out and mums Toheroa soup and fritters
Vaughan Smith
Hungi. Smell bush next door. DB brewing hops. Fish and chips across the road from school. Smelly lawn cutting after dog's done fido. Camp food at ATC, camps.. Burnt rubber from old family car. Sunday drive
Craig Norman
roasting peanuts. Friday night was baking night. I would be "Up town " with my mates. I would arrive home to the smell of roast peanuts and warm peanut brownies fresh from the oven.
Neil Williams
Coal fueled homes ,as I would be out running in the winter months the smell of smoke from chimneys was very strong.
Patrick Crampton
the smell of rain . need i say more rofl
Alan Beck
'Ozone', really salt spray; lupin in summer; fly 'bomb'.
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Tania Tones Lawrence
Coal smoke, the beach after a storm, the brewery smell while biking home from school, Nana's piklets, boiled mince
Nicola Coll
Dad's rawleigh ointment and as he would say "it fixes coughs, colds, sore holes and pimples of your dickie"
Les N Linda Owen
The smell of fresh tar..Sunday roast..freshly cut grass...the smell of rain on a hot day...
Brian McIntyre
Definitly coal smoke
Billie Jo Mayer
John Anderson
Same here coal smoke
Irene Edwards
Coal smoke reminds me of many visits to grandparents on the Coast.
David Howe
Dad doing the pckled onions. Vinegar, and onion smell.
Colin Pearce
Burning beach wood
Barbara Fitzsimmons
Mums scones .cooked it coal range .so big . And the Roast . Dough boys .see the lid lifting . Westcoasters .not brought up on take aways . Icecream every Thursday night . The rest of the week licked the windows .. ?
Rob Lunn
Well were would you start??? as a boomer about the only smell that I didn’t like on the Coast was tripe and white sauce no matter who cooked it or on what apart from that we were blessed with good food and of course good smells
Evelyn Dalzell
Coal smoke, crayfish cooking and mutton birds ?
Ed Dando
Mums fresh piklets off the gridle
Italian Kiss Sticker
Dennisand Francie Wick
Dumplings in the pot of stew on the coal range and whitebait frying on the coal range
Stephanie Reti
Whitebait patties an mum's Roasts in coal ranch lol
Robin Whyte
Mums scones dad cooking mutton birds an crayfish
Dianne Johnson
The coal smell, the smell of Mums fresh baking when we walked in the door from school, especially on a cold wet day.
Ann Knipe
A leg of lamb roasting in the coal range oven.
Anne Bruce
A freshly cut paddock of grass for hay making. Cattle on a wet day. Definitely NOT cabbage that had been on the coal range since 3pm!
Lesley Parker Butland
Coal smoke, fresh cut grass,
Chris Aitken
Roast in the coal range also.
Ruth Naylor
Coal smoke in Reefton.
Helen Joan Forrest
Mums TWEED perfume.
Jenny Haines
Whitebait patties from Hokitika spit.
David Howe
Dad doing the pckled onions. Vinegar, and onion smell.
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Evelyn Dalzell
Coal smoke, crayfish cooking and mutton birds ?
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Ed Dando
Mums fresh piklets off the gridle
Italian Kiss Sticker
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Robin Whyte
Mums scones dad cooking mutton birds an crayfish
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Dennisand Francie Wick
Dumplings in the pot of stew on the coal range and whitebait frying on the coal range
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Heather Newby
Dennisand Francie Wick yum.I remember dumplings
Dianne Johnson
The coal smell, the smell of Mums fresh baking when we walked in the door from school, especially on a cold wet day.
Rob Lunn
Well were would you start??? as a boomer about the only smell that I didn’t like on the Coast was tripe and white sauce no matter who cooked it or on what apart from that we were blessed with good food and of course good smells
David Howe
Rob Lunn My Mum and Dad loved tripe and onons, but none of us kids would touch it. It was horrible. But years later when i was a grown man, i asked Mum to make some, as i might like it now. But one mouthful later i said i would NEVER like tripe and onions. Vile muck !!
Rob Lunn
David Howe ahh well it’s not often that I am right about anything ?
Kathryn Ward
Rob Lunn such a horrible smell, I couldn’t stand it and it looked like a cut up face cloth!!
Rob Lunn
Kathryn Ward when I did actually try it was very rubbery and awful you would have to have been very hungry to eat that
Kenneth John Dalzell
Rob Lunn agree there cuz,used to leave home when the tripe was cooking.
Rob Lunn
Kenneth John Dalzell I reckon that I could smell it as soon as we got out of the school gate
Lesley Parker Butland
Coal smoke, fresh cut grass,
Anne Bruce
A freshly cut paddock of grass for hay making. Cattle on a wet day. Definitely NOT cabbage that had been on the coal range since 3pm!
Stephanie Reti
Whitebait patties an mum's Roasts in coal ranch lol
Barbara Fitzsimmons
Mums scones .cooked it coal range .so big . And the Roast . Dough boys .see the lid lifting . Westcoasters .not brought up on take aways . Icecream every Thursday night . The rest of the week licked the windows .. ?
Grant Caldwell
Barbara Fitzsimmons snowflake icream?
Trish Rennie
Grant Caldwell when you opened up the cardboard packaging and cut it into slices with everyone eyeing it closely to make sure all the slices were even….??
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Barbara Fitzsimmons
Grant Caldwell yeah .so right .not only that .I was the snowflake of my brothers .WELL Back then ???
Chris Aitken
Roast in the coal range also.
Ann Knipe
A leg of lamb roasting in the coal range oven. And the smell of smoke and steam coming through the carriage window as the Rewanui miners train went through the two tunnel's on the line.
Ruth Naylor
Coal smoke in Reefton.
Helen Joan Forrest
Mums TWEED perfume.
Jenny Haines
Whitebait patties from Hokitika spit.
Coal fire and vege soup heating on the coal range
Sharon Rennie
flowering currant shrub
Heather Newby
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Sharon Rennie just llove flowering currant.. im going to get one now that you have reminded me.. another one is lemon verbena
Lorraine Anderson
The smell of milk fresh hot straight from the cow, poured over my weetbix…. Breakfast at the dairy shed
Fresh Whitebait patties cook over the driftwood fire by the river
Tracy Kentish
Tallies fisheries lol
Stu McConchie
The coal smoke mixed with the ocean
Mary Griffith's
Mum cooking tripe & onions she always cooked it for me when she visited I couldn't cook it like her
Heather Newby
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Mary Griffith's i love tripe and onions
Yvonne Lawson
Coal smoke.
KevinandMargaret Mills
Coal fires
Teresa Mathewson Tait
Coal smoke n the winter and beach bon fires in the summer
Heather Newby
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Teresa Mathewson Tait burnt fingers and exploding stones in the fire
Lyn Astin-Hill
Christmas lillies
Heather Newby
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Lyn Astin-Hill yes.. Mum had a lot of Christmas lillies.
Valda Spicer
Coal fired and my mum's cooking.
Bob Jamieson
Definitely coal smoke.
Elaine Rainey
The smell from the Coal fires in the lounge and from the kitchen stove Watching the flames from these fires. Cooking potatoes wrapped in tin foil on a driftwood fire down on the Cameron’s beach. Those potatoes tasted so nice. So did the roasts and scones made in the coal range
Jude Wastney
Coal fires, diesel from the coal trucks, whitebait and home made chips cooking, Sunday roast are just some
Alva Mundy
The smell of the coal smoke .My mother cooking meals on the coal range
Amber Long
Definitely coal smoke. I used to deliver The Press in the mornings for a few years when I was a teenager and the smoke in the mornings was literally choking.
Heather Newby
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Amber Long yes, it doesnt lift until it gets warmer in the mornings
Judy Reeves
WENT T WESPORT 4 FEW DAYS STAYED 14 YRS & IT IS THE COAL SMELL & RAIN IS MY MEOMRY GOOD PLACE
Margaret Malloch
The rain and beautiful fresh air
Judy Davis
The bush
Guy Hahn
Coal smoke and the Bush whe it rained
Wendy McDiarmid
Coal
Marty Agnew
Yip coal fire smoke and the stench on the beer soaked carpet coming from the Railway hotel
Murray Saunders
And the eagle….
Allan Quinn
Coal fire smell
Jock Allen
The L ong Drop
Margaret Kaa
Coal fires, mums roast in the coal range , sweet peas, scones on the 'girdle', venison pot roast when dad got back from 'the tops'
Christine Farrell
Coal smoke and Bush smell. ALSO WHITEBAIT SMELL !!
Bronwyn Hibbs
Being in the bush after it rains
Trevor Coleman
Walking home from primary school at lunch time and smelling them boiling off the hops at Morleys brewery
Sandra Rooney
Coal smoke from train, much better than diesel stink
Clint Templeman
The grey river methane smell
Mel Higson
Coal burning in the coal range.
Absolutely love that smell
Ross Barrow
Has to be the old coal rangeLindsay Thompson
And the smell of rotting vegetation.
Murray Saunders
Surfing 9 Mile on a low tide exposed the mussel beds on the reef.
That salty decaying odour.
And … See more
Jason Mellett
Coal smoke in the air in Reefton, and dimp.
Heather Newby
Jason Mellett i remember Dimp too
Sharyn Lodge
the smells of a coal range, cows, timber, and the bush.
Tony Warner
Underground at Denniston after a shot has been fired the smell of the smoke from the explosion probably not good for you but what a marvellous aroma as you were hooking up the next shot usually 9/10 shots per round was great…then the milli sec dets arr… See more
Heather Newby
Tony Warner interesting,, I went down dobson mine with dad one day and watched him fire a shot. .. a ten foot drill with a six foot extension and tamp with gelignite..stand back and watch.
Richard Howe
I think first would be the coal smoke smell from the fires at the homes, then the damp earthy smell in the bush, and then the salty air as the wind came off the sea. Not as a child though, as a grown up visitor. I love the smells of the West Coast.
Shane Moore
coal smoke and the bush
Marg Power
Cooking crayfish on the beach. Yummie
Alan Smith
Love burning pine cones on an open fire
AnnetteandNick Harrison
The smell of coal fires and the freshness of the Bush after the rain.
Rik Jayde
winfield red 25's
Priscilla-Chang Newton
I would have to say it would be the mussels at the bottom of seventeen - mile hill we used to cook a copper full I told Cilla she shouldn't eat so many and sure enough, she was sick at the top of the hill.
Donna Brydon
Old spice and menthol cigarettes
Bob Laing
The smell of the bush straight after rain, the smell of the sea on the beach, smoke from fires on the beach. We used to cook mussels on a sheet of corrugated iron, over a fire on the beach, just heaven for a young chap of 5-7.
Brent Tomlinson
Dad cooking mutton birds!
We shut the door and went to the lounge
Heather Newby
Brent Tomlinson hate that smell..
Berni Veale
Brent Tomlinson a smell like no other stinks
Kevin Oregan
Roast lamb cooking, grilling chops on top of the coalrange. Kevin
Lorraine Murdoch
Brent. When dad was cooking mutton birds I would wait in bed until he called they were ready and then get up to share with him
Best nights ever.
Chris Burles
Coal Smoke
Nicole Hargraves
The ground before it rains and coal smoke
Bruce Shrimpton
The fresh warm bread outside on the trays cooling at the bakery in Tainui St on way home from the movies.. It tasted even better than the smell.
Anne Bruce
Freshly city paddock of hay grass, sheep being shorn, the pig sty. Mum's cooking, cabbage on the coal range at 3pm to eat at 5pm. Disgusting, it turned pink.
Heather Newby
Anne Bruce i remember that too.. Mum used to boil cabbage with corned beef .. for ages
Les Bryce
we used to count the soldiers on the back of the fire place on a coal fire
Sheryl Elizabeth Paki
coal smoke always remind me of home
Helen Fennell
possum skins and homemade ginger beer
Brian McMahon
Smoke from fires and steam trains
Brent David
Living on the terrace above the brewery… boiling hops
Clare Pierson
Brent David living beside a brewery and the smell of ht hops coming down a chute onto the back of a truck.
Robert Mathewson
That hop smell.
Alan Smith
Brent David that's to true Brent
Edwin Lord
Mum's Sunday Roast and Coal Smoke and brylcreme used to smoother my hair in it when I was a Teenager maybe that's why I'm bald now
Shona Williams
Coal and fern early morning
Colleen Cochrane
The coal smell its home love it
George Gardner
The 'humdinger' doing its weekly rounds of our long drops!
Janine Norcliffe
The smell waking up to freshly made whitebait patties ..for breakfast ..caught that morning .
Mark Humphreys
All of the above
Rob Lunn
It still does it for me fifty odd years after my childhood the smell of fresh rain on a warm day you only get that on the Coast can’t be beat
Bazza Morland
The smell of wet Tarmac after a dry spell Rob .
Lynn Hopkins
Oh yum yum
Lana Vargas
The smell of the minerals in the water when you were near a creek or river.
Helen Brennan
Memories of coming of the train to the smell off coal range with a pot of veggie soup and home made stew after walking down railway line ona rainy day in Runanga
Sheryl Iraia
The smell of a storm coming up off the sea. Love that salty tang.
Tania Newman
Coal and the smell of the ferns & bush
Chris Kelly
O yer looking good, my dad had the best recipe mick kelly him and fredee and us kids use to pick them up the coast rd
Raewyn Louttit
George Abourizk
Hamish White
On a sheet of coro bit of drift wood smoke
Bazza Morland
The smell of Castrol 'R' eminating from the lawnmower , Bliss !
Paul Huffam
I recall well when a chaff sack of oysters from Bluff would arrive on the overnight train from Christchurch. It was a lovely feast of these delicacies, and it didn't take too long for us kids to learn how to remove them from the shells! Dad must have had a good contact to have them delivered by train from Stillwater to Ikamatua.
John Kaye
Mum cooking tripe and onions
Susan Barlow
The smell of the bush.
Judy Crestani
Sea weed after a storm. The smell of coal
Lyn Thompson
Clothes drying on pully contraption in kitchen by coal range ..hated the smell of wet wool and work clothes drying ..coal and the bush ..
Jeni Waters
wet tarseal, when the sun comes back out and the road starts to steam
Rosemary Thomas
The sweet smell of the bush, - is nowhere else in the world
Kleah Boyd
Wood and coal smoke,Talleys,diesel at the wharf..stale beer as you walked past a pub.....
Ken Jackson
The Bush getting close to Reefton from "over the hill "
Shauna Costello
Coal smoke, fresh mown grass and sea spray.
Annie Mae
Coal smoke helenbrennan i walked the same line to that pot of Stew at the same house to our favorite auntyxx
Margaret Mckee
Flowering currant bushes, and coal fires
Felicity Welford
Lucy Brown Kate Meers WogandKellie Ramsden
Christopher Morresey
Now that is a great photo .Would some of those with the same name be Father and son .
Carol Cook
Sharleen Davidson Tammie O'Neill
Clint Davidson Grandad in back row
Tammie O'Neill
Think this one is on the wall at the Club
Steve Butler
Tammie O'Neill correct Sandy butler is in it too
Kerry Adams
Paula Pengelly Sandra Trembath Linda Aynsley your grandad third row
Judy Cairns
jamie have a look
Vern Pattinson
Few Pattinsons in that photo
Susan Barlow
The smell of the bush.
Judy Crestani
Sea weed after a storm. The smell of coal
Lyn Thompson
Clothes drying on pully contraption in kitchen by coal range ..hated the smell of wet wool and work clothes drying ..coal and the bush ..
Jeni Waters
wet tarseal, when the sun comes back out and the road starts to steam
Rosemary Thomas
The sweet smell of the bush, - is nowhere else in the world
Kleah Boyd
Wood and coal smoke,Talleys,diesel at the wharf..stale beer as you walked past a pub.....
Ken Jackson
The Bush getting close to Reefton from "over the hill "
Shauna Costello
Coal smoke, fresh mown grass and sea spray.
Annie Mae
Coal smoke helenbrennan i walked the same line to that pot of Stew at the same house to our favorite auntyxx
Margaret Mckee
Flowering currant bushes, and coal fires
Marie Tern
Lupins in flower. The lagoon
Lesley Parker Butland
Whitebait patties
Louis Brown
Driftwood burning in the Rayburn while I’m whipping up some pancakes for breakfast
Peter Moore
So many.But the bush and home cooking was pretty good and still is.Been in Canterbury for years.But a regular visitor. Don't let it change.The Diamond in NZS Jewel.
Jacqui Espinoza
Coal
Lois Millar
blackberries
Bryce Smith
Fishing
Jude Alfeld
The smell of the sea
Van Zollweg
Awsome....you make me miss home
James Newby
Who can remember the smell/taste of mint sauce on the Sunday leg of lamb roast,I still can stand that smell all these years later.
Stacey Mather - Clouston
Definitely the coal fires. Brought tears to my eyes one evening bringing mums ashes home and knowing as we went through Stillwater, where she grew up, she was finally home, just as she had asked me to do. But it was the smell of people's fires burning that did me in. That was when I knew we were home
Brian McIntyre
Coal smoke and the sea
Jenny Mclellan
Yum are you cooking me some brian
Tony Kirwan
fresh sawdust....flax....whitebait patties....
Natasha Armstrong
The smell of coal burning. As soon as I smell that, I know I am home.
Shelley Naylor
The smell of the open coal fire at my Grandparents in little ol Blackball and the smell of the sea in Hokitika where I grew up.
Lois Little
Coal range,dad cooking mutton birds yuk,blackberry an apple pie mum cooked we picked ,grans favourite for us fried cabbage an onions loved it cabbage still a fave veg an the Sunday roast,those were the days
KevinandMargaret Mills
Coal smoke
Heather Newby
KevinandMargaret Mills yes.. its a very distinctive smell
John Kelly
Mussels and coal smoke
Cheryl Hedley
Lucerne Hay, Dads Old Spice aftershave, home made bread
John Ryall
Kerosene lamps no electricity rolls of Bacon’s hanging from the ceiling
Heather Newby
John Ryall i remember the kerosene smell too
Janine Norcliffe
Old Spice ..
Bob Jamieson
Coal smoke.
Bronwen Skates
For me the smell of coal . Also smell of wood on open fire in lounge . Coal tar soap that dad used and smell remained long after he passed. The smell of ironing as mum ironed everything always at wooden kitchen table and my favorite was smell of toast … See more
Rebekah Fairhurst Geer
Dads Pipe tobacco, mums Oil of Ulan, mushy peas cooking, & camp fires
Heather Newby
Rebekah Fairhurst Geer i love the smell of pipe tobacco
Debbie Hughes
Driftwood from the tasman burning in a bonfire at the 12 mile Bach.
Edwin Lord
Coal Smoke, Dads Park Royal pipe Smoke,and of course the Old Sunday Roast Cooking.
KevinandMargaret Mills
Coal smoke
Heather Newby
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KevinandMargaret Mills yes.. its a very distinctive smell
John Kelly
Mussels and coal smoke
Cheryl Hedley
Lucerne Hay, Dads Old Spice aftershave, home made bread
John Ryall
Kerosene lamps no electricity rolls of Bacon’s hanging from the ceiling
Frances Carey
I remember bacon hanging from ceiling in Kumara!
Janine Norcliffe
Old Spice ..
Bob Jamieson
Coal smoke.
Bronwen Skates
For me the smell of coal . Also smell of wood on open fire in lounge . Coal tar soap that dad used and smell remained long after he passed. The smell of ironing as mum ironed everything always at wooden kitchen table and my favorite was smell of toast made over embers of coalrange. My lovely childhood in Reefton
Rebekah Fairhurst Geer
Dads Pipe tobacco, mums Oil of Ulan, mushy peas cooking, & camp fires
Heather Newby
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Rebekah Fairhurst Geer i love the smell of pipe tobacco
Debbie Hughes
Driftwood from the tasman burning in a bonfire at the 12 mile Bach.
Dennis Wick
Debbie Hughes yes Cuz, with mussels cooking on an old sheet of corrugated iron over the is Grandads old bach still at 12 mile.?
Edwin Lord
Coal Smoke, Dads Park Royal pipe Smoke,and of course the Old Sunday Roast Cooking.
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Kaye Render
every time I go to Westport I stop at the gorge side of the Buller bridge and smell the air brings back all the childhood memories ! guess thats the coal smoke .
Ken Green
mutton birds boiling for days vomit
Heather Newby
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Ken Green crikey,, it stinks!!
Ronrangi McMullan
Percy Hurren's fresh-baked bread straight from oven at 6am daily
Linda Erikson
The gas works in Greymouth. Also the waft of beer and cigarettes when you passed a pub
Alan Beck
Linda Erikson With whitewashed windows halfway.
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Bruce Watson
Coal fires
Wendy McDiarmid
Coal smoke reminds me of my nana.
Colleen Cochrane
Kk
Stephen Harris
The Dominion Brewery with a brew on
Deborah Marley
My mums Sunday roast
Teri-anne Bell
Freesias remind me of my Gandparents at 9 Mile
Heather Newby
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Teri-anne Bell I remember a lot of people in Greymouth used to grow freesias
Teri-anne Bell
Heather Newby yes, I remember my grandparents had them and now whenever I smell freesias it brings back lovely memories of them
Miriam Rogers
My nana ruby beautiful smells and hugs
Heather Newby
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Miriam Rogers Moonlight Mist talcum powder
Deb Ramage
The smell of coal for me. And mums boiled cabbage for 3 hrs.
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Heather Newby
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Deb Ramage um used to cook corned beef on the coal range along with cabbage and the cabbage was disgusting.. cooked for hours.
Kath Rogers
Cut grass, reminds me of hockey practice at Cass Square in Hokitika
Jen Booth
Dad's keresene cooker,and the black smoke it sometimes put out and mums Toheroa soup and fritters
Vaughan Smith
Hungi. Smell bush next door. DB brewing hops. Fish and chips across the road from school. Smelly lawn cutting after dog's done fido. Camp food at ATC, camps.. Burnt rubber from old family car. Sunday drive
Craig Norman
roasting peanuts. Friday night was baking night. I would be "Up town " with my mates. I would arrive home to the smell of roast peanuts and warm peanut brownies fresh from the oven.
Neil Williams
Coal fueled homes ,as I would be out running in the winter months the smell of smoke from chimneys was very strong.
Patrick Crampton
the smell of rain . need i say more rofl
Alan Beck
'Ozone', really salt spray; lupin in summer; fly 'bomb'.
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Tania Tones Lawrence
Coal smoke, the beach after a storm, the brewery smell while biking home from school, Nana's piklets, boiled mince
Nicola Coll
Dad's rawleigh ointment and as he would say "it fixes coughs, colds, sore holes and pimples of your dickie"
Les N Linda Owen
The smell of fresh tar..Sunday roast..freshly cut grass...the smell of rain on a hot day...
Brian McIntyre
Definitly coal smoke
Billie Jo Mayer
John Anderson
Same here coal smoke
Irene Edwards
Coal smoke reminds me of many visits to grandparents on the Coast.
David Howe
Dad doing the pckled onions. Vinegar, and onion smell.
Colin Pearce
Burning beach wood
Barbara Fitzsimmons
Mums scones .cooked it coal range .so big . And the Roast . Dough boys .see the lid lifting . Westcoasters .not brought up on take aways . Icecream every Thursday night . The rest of the week licked the windows .. ?
Rob Lunn
Well were would you start??? as a boomer about the only smell that I didn’t like on the Coast was tripe and white sauce no matter who cooked it or on what apart from that we were blessed with good food and of course good smells
Evelyn Dalzell
Coal smoke, crayfish cooking and mutton birds ?
Ed Dando
Mums fresh piklets off the gridle
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Dennisand Francie Wick
Dumplings in the pot of stew on the coal range and whitebait frying on the coal range
Stephanie Reti
Whitebait patties an mum's Roasts in coal ranch lol
Robin Whyte
Mums scones dad cooking mutton birds an crayfish
Dianne Johnson
The coal smell, the smell of Mums fresh baking when we walked in the door from school, especially on a cold wet day.
Ann Knipe
A leg of lamb roasting in the coal range oven.
Anne Bruce
A freshly cut paddock of grass for hay making. Cattle on a wet day. Definitely NOT cabbage that had been on the coal range since 3pm!
Lesley Parker Butland
Coal smoke, fresh cut grass,
Chris Aitken
Roast in the coal range also.
Ruth Naylor
Coal smoke in Reefton.
Helen Joan Forrest
Mums TWEED perfume.
Jenny Haines
Whitebait patties from Hokitika spit.
David Howe
Dad doing the pckled onions. Vinegar, and onion smell.
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Evelyn Dalzell
Coal smoke, crayfish cooking and mutton birds ?
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Ed Dando
Mums fresh piklets off the gridle
Italian Kiss Sticker
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Robin Whyte
Mums scones dad cooking mutton birds an crayfish
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Dennisand Francie Wick
Dumplings in the pot of stew on the coal range and whitebait frying on the coal range
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Heather Newby
Dennisand Francie Wick yum.I remember dumplings
Dianne Johnson
The coal smell, the smell of Mums fresh baking when we walked in the door from school, especially on a cold wet day.
Rob Lunn
Well were would you start??? as a boomer about the only smell that I didn’t like on the Coast was tripe and white sauce no matter who cooked it or on what apart from that we were blessed with good food and of course good smells
David Howe
Rob Lunn My Mum and Dad loved tripe and onons, but none of us kids would touch it. It was horrible. But years later when i was a grown man, i asked Mum to make some, as i might like it now. But one mouthful later i said i would NEVER like tripe and onions. Vile muck !!
Rob Lunn
David Howe ahh well it’s not often that I am right about anything ?
Kathryn Ward
Rob Lunn such a horrible smell, I couldn’t stand it and it looked like a cut up face cloth!!
Rob Lunn
Kathryn Ward when I did actually try it was very rubbery and awful you would have to have been very hungry to eat that
Kenneth John Dalzell
Rob Lunn agree there cuz,used to leave home when the tripe was cooking.
Rob Lunn
Kenneth John Dalzell I reckon that I could smell it as soon as we got out of the school gate
Lesley Parker Butland
Coal smoke, fresh cut grass,
Anne Bruce
A freshly cut paddock of grass for hay making. Cattle on a wet day. Definitely NOT cabbage that had been on the coal range since 3pm!
Stephanie Reti
Whitebait patties an mum's Roasts in coal ranch lol
Barbara Fitzsimmons
Mums scones .cooked it coal range .so big . And the Roast . Dough boys .see the lid lifting . Westcoasters .not brought up on take aways . Icecream every Thursday night . The rest of the week licked the windows .. ?
Grant Caldwell
Barbara Fitzsimmons snowflake icream?
Trish Rennie
Grant Caldwell when you opened up the cardboard packaging and cut it into slices with everyone eyeing it closely to make sure all the slices were even….??
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Barbara Fitzsimmons
Grant Caldwell yeah .so right .not only that .I was the snowflake of my brothers .WELL Back then ???
Chris Aitken
Roast in the coal range also.
Ann Knipe
A leg of lamb roasting in the coal range oven. And the smell of smoke and steam coming through the carriage window as the Rewanui miners train went through the two tunnel's on the line.
Ruth Naylor
Coal smoke in Reefton.
Helen Joan Forrest
Mums TWEED perfume.
Jenny Haines
Whitebait patties from Hokitika spit.
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