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DescriptionThe Old Greymouth Butter Factory and Convent.Date of Photo1987Map[1] ContributorTony Kokshoorn
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Location (city or town)GreymouthOrganisation (eg business)Greymouth Butter Factory Greymouth Convent
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Date Created5th April 2022CommentsKevin Oregan
Look at the snazzy cars. Remember this well.
Kevin Oregan
Sign says "Batteries" what you guys smoking ????? Kevin
John Kelly
Butter factory in an ealier life
Lesley Jean Frogley
was also a buggar bar. bun hat,i think.
Tammie O'Neill
Lesley Jean Frogley check spelling
Lesley Jean Frogley
Parky,started there,then opened his own,
Nina Townsend
Parkys beginning
Dr Logan had his medical centre there earlier as well in the 1950s
Geoffrey King
Norma Anthony really in the butter factory, well Ill be damned, didn't know that, perhaps too young to register.
Lois Wotton
Norma Anthony think he was down round the corner from Marwhera butchers and past the church there, can’t remember Dr being in the butter factory!
Colin Pearce
Haa the old butter factory...the hours I spent in there "helping" the work men lol. Memories right there
John O'Brien
Is that the old convent in the background ?
Reply28m
Clare Pierson
John O'Brien yes
Cherie Mortensen
My brother and I went to the butter factory with our father Stan Price. He collected the milk cans in his bus/truck from Punakaiki and along the main road and delivered them there and we were allowed to watch the butter being made.
Cherie Mortensen
I always wondered where it was.
Eleanor Morel
Around the corner from the Mawhera butchery.Thankyou Lois Wotton
Tony Froome
Cherrie birchfields Bun hat burger bar she sold it to parky the sweeper
Vaughan Smith
Tony Froome lol parky the sweeper
Sandy Goodall
Used to work there when Cherrie had it, my first payed job Making burgers ect.
Sandy Goodall
Sherrie
Vaughan Smith
Bon hat burger. Ray Pakenham took over from Sherrie Birchfield. Early 1980s. Ray moved up next to Merv's milk bar soon after.
That photo 1987 the building was empty.
Jillene Magee
Vaughan Smith It was the Bun Hat Burger (Bar) I think?, and it was Ray Parkinson, who must have taken over after Sherrie.
Vaughan Smith
Jillene Magee bun hat. Sherrie moved to Christchurch with her son Murray and Ray took over. Late 1970s. Ray stayed in the same place for a short time into the early 1980s. Then Ray moved up the road.
Sherrie and my Mum.. Berwyn Smith were good friends. Mum worked for Sherrie part time.
Murray Birchfield passed away in his early 20s..
Victor Smithers
My old work place West coast Batteries
Brian McIntyre
https://m.facebook.com/groups/WestCoastNewZealandhistory/permalink/829779873701987/
Mike Minehan
In the 50s we sold the cream from the mornings milking to the Butter Factory and as part of the payment received 50 single pounds of butter in a wooden box which went straight into the cooler at the dairy. The skim milk was pumped to a large trough at the piggery, where it curdled before being served to the landrace porkers. "Curds and whey" as in the nursery rhyme ;)) The evening milk was stored in 10 gallon cans overnight in the cool room and collected by the milk truck and taken to the Milk Factory in Grey. Lots of darned hard work milking up to 60 cows with the 4 machines we had, the weather mostly wet, in winter cold and the paddocks very muddy!! All a long way down the track now.
Kim Fentiman
Was the old butter factory before the Bun Hat Burger Bar
Sandy Goodall
Kim Fentiman I worked in the bun hat burger bar for Sherry Birchfield, long time ago
Donna Mackett
What street ?
Peter Mitchell
Pretty sure West Coast Batteries is where I first met Victor Smithers
Colin Pearce
Omg the hours I spent in there as a kid..."helping" the butter makers. And not a mask or fluro vest in site lol lol
Sandra Arnott
So true eh!
Ian Haussmann
Parkys old burger bar
Kieran Kerry Keating
The Nuns home straight behind.
Steve William Rowley
Is that now dispatch and garlic?
Jakh Heremia
I always thought the Convent was an Italian Mansion, with beautiful Palm trees.
Trish Rennie
I remember collecting butter from there in waxed cardboard cartons with my father to be sold in our wee grocery store…
Victor Smithers
West Coast Batteries we refurbished and area mid front and operated battery business for a few years before building was demolished
Murray Saunders
Burgers burgers burgers
Daphne Smithers
Some memories for you Victor Smithers!
Sylvia Kilpatrick
I Rember going there and watching them making the butter
Geoff Hale
Another of my Uncle Johns pics.
Ivan Murray Wilson
West Coast Butteries Ltd!!!!
Gavin Waters
fat fingers should be 1966 to 1970.
Gavin Waters
My first employment, worked there from 2966 to 1970
Great old days
Most of our butter went for export apart from the local market.
Would like a Doller for every pound we produced.
Lyn Whittle
Parkys was there too
Lyn Whittle
Tainui st
Look at the snazzy cars. Remember this well.
Kevin Oregan
Sign says "Batteries" what you guys smoking ????? Kevin
John Kelly
Butter factory in an ealier life
Lesley Jean Frogley
was also a buggar bar. bun hat,i think.
Tammie O'Neill
Lesley Jean Frogley check spelling
Lesley Jean Frogley
Parky,started there,then opened his own,
Nina Townsend
Parkys beginning
Dr Logan had his medical centre there earlier as well in the 1950s
Geoffrey King
Norma Anthony really in the butter factory, well Ill be damned, didn't know that, perhaps too young to register.
Lois Wotton
Norma Anthony think he was down round the corner from Marwhera butchers and past the church there, can’t remember Dr being in the butter factory!
Colin Pearce
Haa the old butter factory...the hours I spent in there "helping" the work men lol. Memories right there
John O'Brien
Is that the old convent in the background ?
Reply28m
Clare Pierson
John O'Brien yes
Cherie Mortensen
My brother and I went to the butter factory with our father Stan Price. He collected the milk cans in his bus/truck from Punakaiki and along the main road and delivered them there and we were allowed to watch the butter being made.
Cherie Mortensen
I always wondered where it was.
Eleanor Morel
Around the corner from the Mawhera butchery.Thankyou Lois Wotton
Tony Froome
Cherrie birchfields Bun hat burger bar she sold it to parky the sweeper
Vaughan Smith
Tony Froome lol parky the sweeper
Sandy Goodall
Used to work there when Cherrie had it, my first payed job Making burgers ect.
Sandy Goodall
Sherrie
Vaughan Smith
Bon hat burger. Ray Pakenham took over from Sherrie Birchfield. Early 1980s. Ray moved up next to Merv's milk bar soon after.
That photo 1987 the building was empty.
Jillene Magee
Vaughan Smith It was the Bun Hat Burger (Bar) I think?, and it was Ray Parkinson, who must have taken over after Sherrie.
Vaughan Smith
Jillene Magee bun hat. Sherrie moved to Christchurch with her son Murray and Ray took over. Late 1970s. Ray stayed in the same place for a short time into the early 1980s. Then Ray moved up the road.
Sherrie and my Mum.. Berwyn Smith were good friends. Mum worked for Sherrie part time.
Murray Birchfield passed away in his early 20s..
Victor Smithers
My old work place West coast Batteries
Brian McIntyre
https://m.facebook.com/groups/WestCoastNewZealandhistory/permalink/829779873701987/
Mike Minehan
In the 50s we sold the cream from the mornings milking to the Butter Factory and as part of the payment received 50 single pounds of butter in a wooden box which went straight into the cooler at the dairy. The skim milk was pumped to a large trough at the piggery, where it curdled before being served to the landrace porkers. "Curds and whey" as in the nursery rhyme ;)) The evening milk was stored in 10 gallon cans overnight in the cool room and collected by the milk truck and taken to the Milk Factory in Grey. Lots of darned hard work milking up to 60 cows with the 4 machines we had, the weather mostly wet, in winter cold and the paddocks very muddy!! All a long way down the track now.
Kim Fentiman
Was the old butter factory before the Bun Hat Burger Bar
Sandy Goodall
Kim Fentiman I worked in the bun hat burger bar for Sherry Birchfield, long time ago
Donna Mackett
What street ?
Peter Mitchell
Pretty sure West Coast Batteries is where I first met Victor Smithers
Colin Pearce
Omg the hours I spent in there as a kid..."helping" the butter makers. And not a mask or fluro vest in site lol lol
Sandra Arnott
So true eh!
Ian Haussmann
Parkys old burger bar
Kieran Kerry Keating
The Nuns home straight behind.
Steve William Rowley
Is that now dispatch and garlic?
Jakh Heremia
I always thought the Convent was an Italian Mansion, with beautiful Palm trees.
Trish Rennie
I remember collecting butter from there in waxed cardboard cartons with my father to be sold in our wee grocery store…
Victor Smithers
West Coast Batteries we refurbished and area mid front and operated battery business for a few years before building was demolished
Murray Saunders
Burgers burgers burgers
Daphne Smithers
Some memories for you Victor Smithers!
Sylvia Kilpatrick
I Rember going there and watching them making the butter
Geoff Hale
Another of my Uncle Johns pics.
Ivan Murray Wilson
West Coast Butteries Ltd!!!!
Gavin Waters
fat fingers should be 1966 to 1970.
Gavin Waters
My first employment, worked there from 2966 to 1970
Great old days
Most of our butter went for export apart from the local market.
Would like a Doller for every pound we produced.
Lyn Whittle
Parkys was there too
Lyn Whittle
Tainui st
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