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The Brick House, Greymouth
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They're a wow, Greymouth a real statement of our history Date of Photo2022-05-01Map[1] ContributorAnthea Keenan
They're a wow, Greymouth a real statement of our history Date of Photo2022-05-01Map[1] ContributorAnthea Keenan
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Location (city or town)GreymouthLandmark (Place)The Brick House
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CommentsKen Smythe
Your photos are brilliant. We have lots of heritage here. Unfortunately I fear all these will be gone in the future. ( Hopefully after me).
Jim Cate
Ken Smythe you will outlast them Ken
Sandra Arnott
Yip great pic!worked for MOW in this building way back!
Vern Pattinson
Sandra Arnott yes
Eleanor Morel
Sandra Arnott So did I a very long time ago!!
Yvonne Lawson
The Brick House where I started my first job. Last window on left at bottom was where I was. Loved that job - Railways. Ministry of Works was upstairs.
Denise Green
Yvonne Lawson me too in the early 80’s before I went across the road to the station
Yvonne Lawson
Denise Green I started February 1963 left March 1967 when i got married moved to Taihape. Hubby was Railways to. Communications
Priscilla-Chang Newton
Great old buildings
Brian Case
Got my first paycheck from railways still got it 40 years later
Barbara Fitzsimmons
Brian Case I know how tight you are .but reelly .
Richard Cudmore
Where statute gone???
DebGreg Hay
Richard Cudmore good question
Jodene Kelly Luckett
It's not Hokitika, maybe Greymouth? Mountains a tad close
Janice Oconnor
You must have been near the phone exchange room then Yvonne ,I’m trying to remember
Yvonne Lawson
Janice Oconnor teleprinter, typist room Janice. Exchange was next door then main office. Second window from end was transport office. I was where Denise was. Took over from her.
Janice Oconnor
Yvonne Lawson so you worked with Aisla Hanrahan did you .think she later worked at chch station
Yvonne Lawson
Janice Oconnor yes I did work with Ailsa. Not sure where she worked after. I left March 1967 when I got married and moved North.
Greg King
My mum June Grieve worked on the first floor for the MOW drawing plans and her calligraphy was unbelievable. Her view would have looked over the railway station.
Tony Hartigan
Mum use to clean the top floor fisheries offices if i remember the bottom florr was railways control rooms
Jennifer Gaskell
My Dad worked at Train Control, first window on the left, at the bottom.
Yvonne Lawson
Jennifer Gaskell I remember your Dad.
Helen Brennan
Still a beautiful old building - we used the Gestetner down there and was always covered in ink must have been only one for whole of Railways in Greymouth
John Forde
My father worked in Train Control in that building in late 50s early 60s.
Yvonne Lawson
John Forde I remember your Dad. One of the Twins worked there too, Kathleen?
John Forde
Yvonne Lawson Don't remember Kathleen working there but she may have. Only job I remember her doing in Grey was at Hay's (I think) then she went nursing in Hokitika (my memory is deteriorating a bit now though). She is in Picton now.
Helen Brennan
we used to go on pay days to get our pay in CASH
Trish Rennie
My father worked in the test lab at the back of this building with Snow McKane.....
Melanie Galbraith
My foster Dad was the Station master his office was in that building when it was belonging to the railways. He had a massive desk. Alan Hunt.
Yvonne Lawson
Melanie Galbraith jack White was Station master when I worked there. Noel Phaup was 2nd in charge
Melanie Galbraith
Yvonne Lawson My foster Dad became the General Manager after that
Annette Rosanowski
Melanie Galbraith hi , Alan was stationmaster when I worked in the station, he was a good sort. His parents lived up the road from us in Reefton, both dads were good mates
Frank ODonnell
We got our pay back in the 70s in the brick house
Deborah Sweetman
Would of loved to have seen inside that building.
Anthea Keenan
Deborah Sweetman Go there Deborah, Speights Ale House
Yvonne Lawson
It’s a restaurant now.
Gayle Rae
In the mid to late nineties, worked upstairs for The Korowai Aroha o Mawhera with Homebuilders next door. Bottom floor was the Greymouth Youth Centre.
Grant Jamieson
Good to see an old building kept in Greymouth, not many survive, ashamed the old Royal just up the road, soon to be demolished
Your photos are brilliant. We have lots of heritage here. Unfortunately I fear all these will be gone in the future. ( Hopefully after me).
Jim Cate
Ken Smythe you will outlast them Ken
Sandra Arnott
Yip great pic!worked for MOW in this building way back!
Vern Pattinson
Sandra Arnott yes
Eleanor Morel
Sandra Arnott So did I a very long time ago!!
Yvonne Lawson
The Brick House where I started my first job. Last window on left at bottom was where I was. Loved that job - Railways. Ministry of Works was upstairs.
Denise Green
Yvonne Lawson me too in the early 80’s before I went across the road to the station
Yvonne Lawson
Denise Green I started February 1963 left March 1967 when i got married moved to Taihape. Hubby was Railways to. Communications
Priscilla-Chang Newton
Great old buildings
Brian Case
Got my first paycheck from railways still got it 40 years later
Barbara Fitzsimmons
Brian Case I know how tight you are .but reelly .
Richard Cudmore
Where statute gone???
DebGreg Hay
Richard Cudmore good question
Jodene Kelly Luckett
It's not Hokitika, maybe Greymouth? Mountains a tad close
Janice Oconnor
You must have been near the phone exchange room then Yvonne ,I’m trying to remember
Yvonne Lawson
Janice Oconnor teleprinter, typist room Janice. Exchange was next door then main office. Second window from end was transport office. I was where Denise was. Took over from her.
Janice Oconnor
Yvonne Lawson so you worked with Aisla Hanrahan did you .think she later worked at chch station
Yvonne Lawson
Janice Oconnor yes I did work with Ailsa. Not sure where she worked after. I left March 1967 when I got married and moved North.
Greg King
My mum June Grieve worked on the first floor for the MOW drawing plans and her calligraphy was unbelievable. Her view would have looked over the railway station.
Tony Hartigan
Mum use to clean the top floor fisheries offices if i remember the bottom florr was railways control rooms
Jennifer Gaskell
My Dad worked at Train Control, first window on the left, at the bottom.
Yvonne Lawson
Jennifer Gaskell I remember your Dad.
Helen Brennan
Still a beautiful old building - we used the Gestetner down there and was always covered in ink must have been only one for whole of Railways in Greymouth
John Forde
My father worked in Train Control in that building in late 50s early 60s.
Yvonne Lawson
John Forde I remember your Dad. One of the Twins worked there too, Kathleen?
John Forde
Yvonne Lawson Don't remember Kathleen working there but she may have. Only job I remember her doing in Grey was at Hay's (I think) then she went nursing in Hokitika (my memory is deteriorating a bit now though). She is in Picton now.
Helen Brennan
we used to go on pay days to get our pay in CASH
Trish Rennie
My father worked in the test lab at the back of this building with Snow McKane.....
Melanie Galbraith
My foster Dad was the Station master his office was in that building when it was belonging to the railways. He had a massive desk. Alan Hunt.
Yvonne Lawson
Melanie Galbraith jack White was Station master when I worked there. Noel Phaup was 2nd in charge
Melanie Galbraith
Yvonne Lawson My foster Dad became the General Manager after that
Annette Rosanowski
Melanie Galbraith hi , Alan was stationmaster when I worked in the station, he was a good sort. His parents lived up the road from us in Reefton, both dads were good mates
Frank ODonnell
We got our pay back in the 70s in the brick house
Deborah Sweetman
Would of loved to have seen inside that building.
Anthea Keenan
Deborah Sweetman Go there Deborah, Speights Ale House
Yvonne Lawson
It’s a restaurant now.
Gayle Rae
In the mid to late nineties, worked upstairs for The Korowai Aroha o Mawhera with Homebuilders next door. Bottom floor was the Greymouth Youth Centre.
Grant Jamieson
Good to see an old building kept in Greymouth, not many survive, ashamed the old Royal just up the road, soon to be demolished
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West Coast New Zealand History (14th May 2022). The Brick House, Greymouth. In Website West Coast New Zealand History. Retrieved 5th Apr 2026 00:16, from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/31013