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Date Created25th May 2022CommentsLes Bryce
Didn't Arbie Panther have that in the 60's. Possum pies direct from the roadside to you.
Alison Paulsen
I remember those days! Made a few dressed pies back in the day
Paul Jackson
The good old days when it was parked outside my work.
Mark Batty
Paul Jackson same here. Every Monday morning always something left at the front door.
Lyn N Moe
Must be a later one I remember the pie cart that was towed behind a V/8 car and people tripping over the draw bar.
Malcolm Yorston
Lyn N Moe must be after 1976 when we left Greymouth as I too remember the old pie cart towed behind the V8
Lyn N Moe
Malcolm Yorston Cheers Malc this one cant of been around for long, looks like a old Kennedy bus.
Malcolm Yorston
Lyn N Moe I recall seeing the bus around the early to mid 1980s and commenting to Brenda Yorston that there was a new pie cart
David Carty
Lyn N Moe used to come from Cobden every night towed by a old model car and parked by Batties garage, if I remember correctly!!!
Lyn N Moe
David Carty Yes it did Dave.
Lisa Winter
Any inside pictures?
Terry Harding
Ah the good old days. I remember it, with the stringy bacon and the 4x2 chips.
Jean Mehrtens
Those peas were always a bit weird - pie with peas and weird potato
Lesley Thomas
Jean Mehrtens instant like spud marrowfat (mushy) peas and a slice of beetroot on top. those who didn't finish or like them threw the pie through the top open window of the agus building.
Alan Smith
I remember those days! Fantastic food when drunk as a skunk
Robert Porter
Alan Smith not wrong on that one.
Marty Byrne
Alan Smith always something about pie carts when you have had a few beers
Kath Jim Anderson
I remember those days!
Marilyn Hill
I remember those days
Brenda Gill
Dam good food to
Bruce Tones
That's a newie, I never went in that one
Frank ODonnell
I remember those days thay were so good back in the day after the Races
Marilyn Ramsay
And after the pub shut
Kathy Duthie
gee many a good feed there
Ann-Maree Duncan
Omg
Potatoes mashed, peas and beetroot...yummy as after a night out
Edwin Lord
Used to go there after a big night on the turbs great food also a mean pea pie and spud
Annie Van Looy
Was awesome after a night at the eagle
GIF
Rodger Fredericks
My dad owned it for a few years
Nova Hichens
Loved loved the pie cart.
Phil Olson
Steak Eggs and chips after a big night at the Golden Eagle. Pouring with rain, the roof on pie cart leaking but the food was awesome. Great memories. This is assuming the same pie cart from the seventies. Was a little intoxicated to remember clearly those days
Daveo Oldham
bring back the pie cart
Dot Wilkins
This could b you Lisa
Tony Pascoe
Remember that one wellBarbara Fitzsimmons
Pauline Matene
Mary Fenemor
Barbara Fitzsimmons Barb, She's gone On a Mystery Nite Out so She mightnt send message back ,till Morning.
Cheryl Pinn
Don't remember that one
Vern Pattinson
Cop shop on the left
Amanda Stephens
Vern Pattinson back before they painted it blue!
Jim O'Donoghue
Vern Pattinson and Golden Eagle just around the corner!
Robyn A Rusholme
Wasn’t a pie cart parked outside ABC and steak house
Les Bryce
I think you are correct
Trish Rennie
I remember Paddys Pie Cart....long trailer that had a canvas awning that opened up onto the footpath....seating in the back(??) good pea,pie n pudd and the usual after booze food....was before the one pictured
Stephen Lucas
Looks like a old Kennedy's Bus
Sandra Rooney
Knew it well parked outside the Argus . The Thompsons from Cobden ran it
Sandra Rooney
This is a newer pie cart
John Canon
Yes with eggs and beet root sober in the morning check out the stains on your white shirt
Colman Creagh
I remember one nighin th1960s when us Brunner boys were there late for a feed after league and a night on the turps.one of our guys gave Graeme Thompson grief and he jumped the.counter.we thought to have a go but he ran over to the cops.needless to sa… See more
Helen Green
Visited Grey pie cart in our young days. Went after dances. Great pies!
Ruth Naylor
When i was doing a stint over at TASMAN Home early 60's we would get the taxi to collect food from the pie cart and bring it up to us paid in delivery. Good service.
Bruce Anderson
Hi remember when Graeme Thompson had it towed it from
Cobden with 1954 Ford Customline
Robin Gibbens
I remember going on a brake down at night with Dad for the first time and after dropping the car at the panel shop he took me there for my first pie cart feed, always loved them .We lived at the Latimer square pie cart in Christchurch in our teen years
Lynne Donoghue
Robin Gibbens Also used to be in the Cathedral Square by the old bus station, before it moved to Latimer Square went there many a time after the pub.
Rob Lunn
Ahh the old fly cart many a good tuck in had there got fairly rough in the end though and if my memory serves me correctly it was not too long before the Steak Bar opened..
John Brett
That pie cart looks exactly like it used to be one of the Kennedy busses.
Murray Bradley
Great place for pie potato,peas & beetroot late at night after a shift at the hotel
Lois Iacoppi
That’s like seeing an old friend
Michaela Perkins
An older white lady.
Grant Jamieson
Yes the odd night there, was bloody handy, nothing much else was open, same parking spot, not sure if same Cart? must of been mid- late 80's when I was there
Kevin Hunter
Not sure who the owner was at the time but I remember him cracking eggs by his stove and throwing the shells about 3 to 4 meters away into a bucket at the rate of about one every 1.5 seconds. Never saw him miss. Legend
Ann Christie
Great after a night playing badminton then off to pie cartfor peas pie spud with beetroot on top.
NormaandPat Blanchfield
My brother Frank and I worked there for Harvey Panther in the 50’s. I then caught up with Harvey again at Firestone Tyre factory in Christchurch.
Les Holmes Germanicus
I remember regularly calling in for some chips after playing table tennis at the Blaketown hall on Wednesday nights. That's when that footbridge was still there. I remember the dressed pies they sold too. This photo must have been taken shortly before it closed up.
Graeme John Hill
worked in the pie cart Saturday and Sunday nights
Wayne Gladstone
Remember leaving the pie early one morning ,when it started to rock back and forward, caused by the lads with me.
We all hopped into my VW for for a quick get away, but to late, Graham Thompson had vacated the pie cart and chased us up the road banging on the roof with a hammer.
Laid a charge of wilful damage, but drove back in from Runanga and withdrew the charges , just well Alan Kaye from out home on duty.
GT was on the phone early next morning saying he had spoke to his lawyer who said ' to fire ahead with the charges'.
Thanks Barney and the 2 Bills
Reply2h
Vern Pattinson
Went there when Merv Tremaine was working there
Rob Lunn
Black and white cop car in the background Vern the type of thing that you would have tried to avoid no doubt
Vern Pattinson
Rob Lunn yes Rob quiet a few times lol
Ian Buchanan
Rob Lunn you to
Linda McTigue
I remember eating from there when Paddy and Graham Thompson had it
Barbara Levick
I remember them to
Lynn Tacon
The best dressed pies ever at the Cafe le curb.
Dorothy Wills
When I was working in Nelson back in 1957 the pie cart was quite often parked in an area close to the Main Street of Richmond was always well pratronised they had good food at good prices
Murray Hay
Did great dressed pies especially on way home from the eagle
Vern Pattinson
Murray Hay mushy peas
Marie Keane
what a cool idea we need 1 of these in town some cafes have shit food
Murry McKendry
Many a feed there after the pub
Noel Swift
Great Pea ,Pie and Spud, with beetroot on the side.
Bruce Keddie
I think that was an ex Kennedy Bros bus. Or was it ex Coburns?
Rosemarie Searle
Can’t beat a pie,mash and gravy.
Peter Arthur
How many times have I come out of the Golden Eagle and managed to get over to the pie cart. Mate had the best feeds there - A couple of times just after a feed the damn police happened along and landed up offering me a free night's accommodation....lol
14h
Charlie Chandler
Now I'm hungry
Alan Wilson
The old blue,che and spew
Lobesy Lobesy
The original food trucks.
Graeme John Hill
i worked there.
Heather Reid
food was so greasy
e
Makes me think of “Pawai’s pie cart” in Footrot flats: The dogs Tail
Kathy Duthie
many people enjoyed there food, I be it could tell a few tales, such good times
Aaron Cook
Easy to tell where that photo was taken
Bev Kelly
Did Gordon Elcock run that pie cart many moons ago?
Murray Bradley
Remember those days. Getting something after the pub shut.
Kevin Cogle
This still about
Noel Clark
One and sixpence for pea pie pud and beetroot.
Charlie Chandler
Now I'm hungry
Brian McIntyre
Thompson, but unsure of his christian name. Graham sounds right but not sure
Kevin O'Regan
Bryan Thompson, as well as tossing the egg shells would give a metal tray the occasional good kick like a cymbal. Great days a feed after leaving the Duke.
Kenny Williams
A true experience if you managed to get there at the right time great memories for sure and just across the road from the police station
Anita Lorraine Barltrop
When I was a youngster my dad took me to the piecart in Greymouth, I remember it was yummy and fun. It's a shame we don't have one now. Some local food that's not foreign, as a treat not Maccas or KFC
Ray Port
Oh yes.
Many a late night snack had there and you were always guaranteed to run into someone you knew and good chance of another few drinks at someone's place was arranged.
Kieran Kerry Keating
Has anyone got a photo of the pie cart the Thompsons had on that same site???
Kelvin Webster
Nothing like a dressed pie after the movie at the Regent... a pie with mashed potato, mushy peas and a bit of beetroot...heaven...
Phillip Lee
Used to offer us lads our feed for free if he missed throwing the egg shells into the bin ( think it was a milk can farmers left at gate to be picked up ) anyway we never got a free feed and he would be some distance away at time. He never took any crap from us half cut teenagers either.
Roger O'Regan
Nothing else ever tasted as good as a feed from a piecart ! But you had to be in the mood........
Geoffrey Bell
I can remember the eggshells being thrown some distance into the can, mid to late 1960s.
Laurie Anisy
Had a few owners after the Thomson.My cousin Peter run it with Graeme Rae.
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Louise Strong
Anyone remember my dad Lex Lockie’s pie cart in 1974/5? Same or similar spot.
Cheryl Pinn
This piecart may have been after the cobden piecart got smashed up early 70's. Graeme run the cobden one from very early 60's and towed it with a twinspinner?? ,or 55 /56 maybe. Don't know whose cart this was maybe Delaney's from Blackball.
Russell Pattinson
remember it well
Murray Webber
I remember a caravan in my younger days? Mid 60s ? Am I wrong?
Olwyn Witton
I loved going to the pie cart in Christchurch after the movies. He was always in the Square somewhere.
Viv Sheehan
And cracking two eggs at once in to the pan.
Cheryl Callard
Wow that bring back memories
Steve Best
Awesome. definitely remember that
Rosemarie Searle
Oh gosh. The pie cart! Late night delicacy
John Sara
The good old day's
Keith Williams
Graham Thompson,and his dad Paddy had it before him.
Graeme John Hill
I worked in one of them for quite awhile Friday and Saturday late nights. Cant remember who owned it back then. Remember one night end of footy season 2 top league plays came in and after they finished i took them home in the bus to Cobden and out by the Aussie hotel.What a mess the next day..lol
Didn't Arbie Panther have that in the 60's. Possum pies direct from the roadside to you.
Alison Paulsen
I remember those days! Made a few dressed pies back in the day
Paul Jackson
The good old days when it was parked outside my work.
Mark Batty
Paul Jackson same here. Every Monday morning always something left at the front door.
Lyn N Moe
Must be a later one I remember the pie cart that was towed behind a V/8 car and people tripping over the draw bar.
Malcolm Yorston
Lyn N Moe must be after 1976 when we left Greymouth as I too remember the old pie cart towed behind the V8
Lyn N Moe
Malcolm Yorston Cheers Malc this one cant of been around for long, looks like a old Kennedy bus.
Malcolm Yorston
Lyn N Moe I recall seeing the bus around the early to mid 1980s and commenting to Brenda Yorston that there was a new pie cart
David Carty
Lyn N Moe used to come from Cobden every night towed by a old model car and parked by Batties garage, if I remember correctly!!!
Lyn N Moe
David Carty Yes it did Dave.
Lisa Winter
Any inside pictures?
Terry Harding
Ah the good old days. I remember it, with the stringy bacon and the 4x2 chips.
Jean Mehrtens
Those peas were always a bit weird - pie with peas and weird potato
Lesley Thomas
Jean Mehrtens instant like spud marrowfat (mushy) peas and a slice of beetroot on top. those who didn't finish or like them threw the pie through the top open window of the agus building.
Alan Smith
I remember those days! Fantastic food when drunk as a skunk
Robert Porter
Alan Smith not wrong on that one.
Marty Byrne
Alan Smith always something about pie carts when you have had a few beers
Kath Jim Anderson
I remember those days!
Marilyn Hill
I remember those days
Brenda Gill
Dam good food to
Bruce Tones
That's a newie, I never went in that one
Frank ODonnell
I remember those days thay were so good back in the day after the Races
Marilyn Ramsay
And after the pub shut
Kathy Duthie
gee many a good feed there
Ann-Maree Duncan
Omg
Potatoes mashed, peas and beetroot...yummy as after a night out
Edwin Lord
Used to go there after a big night on the turbs great food also a mean pea pie and spud
Annie Van Looy
Was awesome after a night at the eagle
GIF
Rodger Fredericks
My dad owned it for a few years
Nova Hichens
Loved loved the pie cart.
Phil Olson
Steak Eggs and chips after a big night at the Golden Eagle. Pouring with rain, the roof on pie cart leaking but the food was awesome. Great memories. This is assuming the same pie cart from the seventies. Was a little intoxicated to remember clearly those days
Daveo Oldham
bring back the pie cart
Dot Wilkins
This could b you Lisa
Tony Pascoe
Remember that one wellBarbara Fitzsimmons
Pauline Matene
Mary Fenemor
Barbara Fitzsimmons Barb, She's gone On a Mystery Nite Out so She mightnt send message back ,till Morning.
Cheryl Pinn
Don't remember that one
Vern Pattinson
Cop shop on the left
Amanda Stephens
Vern Pattinson back before they painted it blue!
Jim O'Donoghue
Vern Pattinson and Golden Eagle just around the corner!
Robyn A Rusholme
Wasn’t a pie cart parked outside ABC and steak house
Les Bryce
I think you are correct
Trish Rennie
I remember Paddys Pie Cart....long trailer that had a canvas awning that opened up onto the footpath....seating in the back(??) good pea,pie n pudd and the usual after booze food....was before the one pictured
Stephen Lucas
Looks like a old Kennedy's Bus
Sandra Rooney
Knew it well parked outside the Argus . The Thompsons from Cobden ran it
Sandra Rooney
This is a newer pie cart
John Canon
Yes with eggs and beet root sober in the morning check out the stains on your white shirt
Colman Creagh
I remember one nighin th1960s when us Brunner boys were there late for a feed after league and a night on the turps.one of our guys gave Graeme Thompson grief and he jumped the.counter.we thought to have a go but he ran over to the cops.needless to sa… See more
Helen Green
Visited Grey pie cart in our young days. Went after dances. Great pies!
Ruth Naylor
When i was doing a stint over at TASMAN Home early 60's we would get the taxi to collect food from the pie cart and bring it up to us paid in delivery. Good service.
Bruce Anderson
Hi remember when Graeme Thompson had it towed it from
Cobden with 1954 Ford Customline
Robin Gibbens
I remember going on a brake down at night with Dad for the first time and after dropping the car at the panel shop he took me there for my first pie cart feed, always loved them .We lived at the Latimer square pie cart in Christchurch in our teen years
Lynne Donoghue
Robin Gibbens Also used to be in the Cathedral Square by the old bus station, before it moved to Latimer Square went there many a time after the pub.
Rob Lunn
Ahh the old fly cart many a good tuck in had there got fairly rough in the end though and if my memory serves me correctly it was not too long before the Steak Bar opened..
John Brett
That pie cart looks exactly like it used to be one of the Kennedy busses.
Murray Bradley
Great place for pie potato,peas & beetroot late at night after a shift at the hotel
Lois Iacoppi
That’s like seeing an old friend
Michaela Perkins
An older white lady.
Grant Jamieson
Yes the odd night there, was bloody handy, nothing much else was open, same parking spot, not sure if same Cart? must of been mid- late 80's when I was there
Kevin Hunter
Not sure who the owner was at the time but I remember him cracking eggs by his stove and throwing the shells about 3 to 4 meters away into a bucket at the rate of about one every 1.5 seconds. Never saw him miss. Legend
Ann Christie
Great after a night playing badminton then off to pie cartfor peas pie spud with beetroot on top.
NormaandPat Blanchfield
My brother Frank and I worked there for Harvey Panther in the 50’s. I then caught up with Harvey again at Firestone Tyre factory in Christchurch.
Les Holmes Germanicus
I remember regularly calling in for some chips after playing table tennis at the Blaketown hall on Wednesday nights. That's when that footbridge was still there. I remember the dressed pies they sold too. This photo must have been taken shortly before it closed up.
Graeme John Hill
worked in the pie cart Saturday and Sunday nights
Wayne Gladstone
Remember leaving the pie early one morning ,when it started to rock back and forward, caused by the lads with me.
We all hopped into my VW for for a quick get away, but to late, Graham Thompson had vacated the pie cart and chased us up the road banging on the roof with a hammer.
Laid a charge of wilful damage, but drove back in from Runanga and withdrew the charges , just well Alan Kaye from out home on duty.
GT was on the phone early next morning saying he had spoke to his lawyer who said ' to fire ahead with the charges'.
Thanks Barney and the 2 Bills
Reply2h
Vern Pattinson
Went there when Merv Tremaine was working there
Rob Lunn
Black and white cop car in the background Vern the type of thing that you would have tried to avoid no doubt
Vern Pattinson
Rob Lunn yes Rob quiet a few times lol
Ian Buchanan
Rob Lunn you to
Linda McTigue
I remember eating from there when Paddy and Graham Thompson had it
Barbara Levick
I remember them to
Lynn Tacon
The best dressed pies ever at the Cafe le curb.
Dorothy Wills
When I was working in Nelson back in 1957 the pie cart was quite often parked in an area close to the Main Street of Richmond was always well pratronised they had good food at good prices
Murray Hay
Did great dressed pies especially on way home from the eagle
Vern Pattinson
Murray Hay mushy peas
Marie Keane
what a cool idea we need 1 of these in town some cafes have shit food
Murry McKendry
Many a feed there after the pub
Noel Swift
Great Pea ,Pie and Spud, with beetroot on the side.
Bruce Keddie
I think that was an ex Kennedy Bros bus. Or was it ex Coburns?
Rosemarie Searle
Can’t beat a pie,mash and gravy.
Peter Arthur
How many times have I come out of the Golden Eagle and managed to get over to the pie cart. Mate had the best feeds there - A couple of times just after a feed the damn police happened along and landed up offering me a free night's accommodation....lol
14h
Charlie Chandler
Now I'm hungry
Alan Wilson
The old blue,che and spew
Lobesy Lobesy
The original food trucks.
Graeme John Hill
i worked there.
Heather Reid
food was so greasy
e
Makes me think of “Pawai’s pie cart” in Footrot flats: The dogs Tail
Kathy Duthie
many people enjoyed there food, I be it could tell a few tales, such good times
Aaron Cook
Easy to tell where that photo was taken
Bev Kelly
Did Gordon Elcock run that pie cart many moons ago?
Murray Bradley
Remember those days. Getting something after the pub shut.
Kevin Cogle
This still about
Noel Clark
One and sixpence for pea pie pud and beetroot.
Charlie Chandler
Now I'm hungry
Brian McIntyre
Thompson, but unsure of his christian name. Graham sounds right but not sure
Kevin O'Regan
Bryan Thompson, as well as tossing the egg shells would give a metal tray the occasional good kick like a cymbal. Great days a feed after leaving the Duke.
Kenny Williams
A true experience if you managed to get there at the right time great memories for sure and just across the road from the police station
Anita Lorraine Barltrop
When I was a youngster my dad took me to the piecart in Greymouth, I remember it was yummy and fun. It's a shame we don't have one now. Some local food that's not foreign, as a treat not Maccas or KFC
Ray Port
Oh yes.
Many a late night snack had there and you were always guaranteed to run into someone you knew and good chance of another few drinks at someone's place was arranged.
Kieran Kerry Keating
Has anyone got a photo of the pie cart the Thompsons had on that same site???
Kelvin Webster
Nothing like a dressed pie after the movie at the Regent... a pie with mashed potato, mushy peas and a bit of beetroot...heaven...
Phillip Lee
Used to offer us lads our feed for free if he missed throwing the egg shells into the bin ( think it was a milk can farmers left at gate to be picked up ) anyway we never got a free feed and he would be some distance away at time. He never took any crap from us half cut teenagers either.
Roger O'Regan
Nothing else ever tasted as good as a feed from a piecart ! But you had to be in the mood........
Geoffrey Bell
I can remember the eggshells being thrown some distance into the can, mid to late 1960s.
Laurie Anisy
Had a few owners after the Thomson.My cousin Peter run it with Graeme Rae.
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Louise Strong
Anyone remember my dad Lex Lockie’s pie cart in 1974/5? Same or similar spot.
Cheryl Pinn
This piecart may have been after the cobden piecart got smashed up early 70's. Graeme run the cobden one from very early 60's and towed it with a twinspinner?? ,or 55 /56 maybe. Don't know whose cart this was maybe Delaney's from Blackball.
Russell Pattinson
remember it well
Murray Webber
I remember a caravan in my younger days? Mid 60s ? Am I wrong?
Olwyn Witton
I loved going to the pie cart in Christchurch after the movies. He was always in the Square somewhere.
Viv Sheehan
And cracking two eggs at once in to the pan.
Cheryl Callard
Wow that bring back memories
Steve Best
Awesome. definitely remember that
Rosemarie Searle
Oh gosh. The pie cart! Late night delicacy
John Sara
The good old day's
Keith Williams
Graham Thompson,and his dad Paddy had it before him.
Graeme John Hill
I worked in one of them for quite awhile Friday and Saturday late nights. Cant remember who owned it back then. Remember one night end of footy season 2 top league plays came in and after they finished i took them home in the bus to Cobden and out by the Aussie hotel.What a mess the next day..lol
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