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NORCASSA FISH and CHIPS shop in the brick building on the right.1960`s.
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DescriptionNORCASSA FISH and CHIPS shop in the brick building on the right. The Greymouth Evening Star printing press is there today. Photo,1960`s.Date of Photo1960`sMap[1] ContributorTony Kokshoorn
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Location (city or town)GreymouthLandmark (Place)NORCASSA FISH and CHIPSOrganisation (eg business)NORCASSA FISH and CHIPS
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Date Created23rd July 2023CommentsDianne Johnson
The best fish and chips wrapped in real newspaper. Great place to stop after Saturday afternoon movie then sit on the wharf and dig in. Still remember the taste.
Kate MacRae
Was Norcassa Vieceli's back in the day?
Carolyn Luck
My grandfather and father Accountancy building second on the left, Congreve and Co.
They were the Accountants for the Norcassa, the lovely Vieceli family.
This photo has been taken most likely 1970 as the empty section next to my Dad’s Accountancy business is where the Sprott building was. It had to be demolished after the Inangahua earthquake which was 24th May 1968 and it was a couple of years later that the building was demolished.
When it was being demolished it was found that the wall was shared with my Dad’s building so it was a worrying few days!!
Anne Bruce
1/- worth of fish 'n chips. 2 large bits of fish and a LOT of chips. Taken home on the railcar to Ahaura, walk from the railway station to home. Package clutched close with a little hole ripped so a few chips could escape to my mouth. Then into a dish and put in the coal range oven. My hands would have been black from the newsprint.
Tony Mundy
I seem to recall this being run by the Zampese family in the early-mid 60's
Jock Allen
Got value for money those days
Laura Mills Detlaff
Admin
Isn't it on the left, across the road from the Greymouth Star?
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Geoffrey King
Laura Mills Detlaff Isn't what on the left side across from the Greymouth Evening Star. The Christchurch Press offices were on the left side of the road across from the GM Star where Pat Taylor and Les Guiney were the reporters. As I stated the building being demolished was the Inland Revenue, they shifted further west down Mackay to opposite the Beaths building (Duncan Hardie) Norcassa is on the right side western end of the double brick building cnr Mackay and Waite street
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Stephanie Keen
My grandmother Eva Rostern owned the Norcassa in the early 1950s. The queues on Friday night apparently were down the block. She was a fabulous cook.
Geoffrey King
Yes the western end of the building was the Norcassa. The building being demolished I think was the Inland Revenue building
Rob Absalom
E J Hornsby Painting and Decorating had the building in the bottom right in the 70s.
Grahame Kelly
Was the Grey River Argus printed there also?
Les Holmes Germanicus
Sixpence worth was a scoop and one big piece of fish. That was our treat for tea before we got on the 5 o'clock steam train home from a Saturday afternoon at the pictures. I and my two sisters had all that entertainment and treats, railway fares all for 10 bob.
Elaine Rainey
Les Holmes Germanicus Great times Les
June Griggs
My Mum worked there in there.
Dianne Johnson
Was there a gentleman, first name Peter who worked there early 1960’s.
Sarah Ann Owen
Mr and Mrs King ran the Norcassa and also the Tudor tearoom at some point in maybe the 60's or early 70's. I do not know their first names as was young and they were always called Mr and Mrs King even by the staff if I remember correctly. Best fish and chips in town
Bronwen Skates
Great times. Not in Greymouth but my home town Reefton we did same . Go to Pictures then get sixpence worth of decent amount of chips and a piece of fish in newspaper to eat on way home . Great days .
Anna Panther
I remember that shop fondly Chrissie Schaef worked there & our Nana used to take us there to get f & c when we come to town! Joel, Lauren,
Sue Vaughan
Great memories walking home over the Cobden bridge with Fish n Chips after a movie. Best Fish n Chips ever.
Hazel Oldham
As kids we loved ti go diwn to greymouth for Friday night shopping with mum and dad .bring it back get people out on the weekends .a good idea for tourist .the only late night shopping in nz
Lyn Whittle
Donna Vincent didn’t your mum work there?
Lyn Whittle
I remember those shops , there was a funky boutique there in the late 1970s just before it was demolished, I bought an amazing outfit from there with my first pay .
Lyn Gosling
Between Norcassa's and the garage on the next corner, was my parents' shop when i was at school. Cohen's Garden Centre. The verandah was over the fruit and vege part, and the adjacent building was the garden and plant area. After the Inangahua quake this building wouldn't have been safe anymore, but we had moved to Blackball by then. We used to have Norcassa's fish and chips on a Friday night which was late closing night.
Ann Hobden
My father, Charles King, owned the Norcasa (only one s) in the late sixties and seventies. The immediately previous owner was Ron Negri who I think succeeded Brian Vieceli.Sue Vaughan
Great memories walking home over the Cobden bridge with Fish n Chips after a movie. Best Fish n Chips ever.
Suzanne McPherson
Sue Vaughan same, exactly. Sometimes that river was high too
Sue Vaughan
Suzanne McPherson certainly was
Hazel Oldham
As kids we loved ti go diwn to greymouth for Friday night shopping with mum and dad .bring it back get people out on the weekends .a good idea for tourist .the only late night shopping in nz
Lyn Whittle
Donna Vincent didn’t your mum work there?
Lyn Whittle
I remember those shops , there was a funky boutique there in the late 1970s just before it was demolished, I bought an amazing outfit from there with my first pay .
Lyn Gosling
Between Norcassa's and the garage on the next corner, was my parents' shop when i was at school. Cohen's Garden Centre. The verandah was over the fruit and vege part, and the adjacent building was the garden and plant area. After the Inangahua quake this building wouldn't have been safe anymore, but we had moved to Blackball by then. We used to have Norcassa's fish and chips on a Friday night which was late closing night.
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Ann Hobden
My father, Charles King, owned the Norcasa (only one s) in the late sixties and seventies. The immediately previous owner was Ron Negri who I think succeeded Brian Vieceli.
Kerry Molloy
Tony K-can you remember qwhen we were kids at moana the ir was a shooting at a F&Cshop in that end of town -???NOrcassa. Sure it was over a girl .Had an uncle who happend upon it shortly after it happened ???IIRClate 1950-ealry 1960s.
Kelvin Webster
Ed Preston father of Dame Gaylene Preston managed the Norcasa in the late 50 s
Gaylene Preston
My parents, Ed and Tui Preston bought the Norcassa from the Vichelies around 1951/52 and served fish and chips (no pre-cooking) until September 1957. The first year they were hit by the Southland potato blight which tripled the cost of a chip. They nearly went bust. Ed took on a country milk run from Karoro to the Paroa store to supplement their earnings. With no freezers back then in a good whitebait season, he would be left a quart of whitebait at the gate to swap for a quart of milk because people knew he could sell them in the shop. Once my parents cooked 400 whitebait fritters for a Savage Club Ladies Night do. And my father would go down the wharf and bring back a sack of oysters to open for extra cash.
Kelvin Webster
Good on you cous..saw you in the Sunday Times....
The best fish and chips wrapped in real newspaper. Great place to stop after Saturday afternoon movie then sit on the wharf and dig in. Still remember the taste.
Kate MacRae
Was Norcassa Vieceli's back in the day?
Carolyn Luck
My grandfather and father Accountancy building second on the left, Congreve and Co.
They were the Accountants for the Norcassa, the lovely Vieceli family.
This photo has been taken most likely 1970 as the empty section next to my Dad’s Accountancy business is where the Sprott building was. It had to be demolished after the Inangahua earthquake which was 24th May 1968 and it was a couple of years later that the building was demolished.
When it was being demolished it was found that the wall was shared with my Dad’s building so it was a worrying few days!!
Anne Bruce
1/- worth of fish 'n chips. 2 large bits of fish and a LOT of chips. Taken home on the railcar to Ahaura, walk from the railway station to home. Package clutched close with a little hole ripped so a few chips could escape to my mouth. Then into a dish and put in the coal range oven. My hands would have been black from the newsprint.
Tony Mundy
I seem to recall this being run by the Zampese family in the early-mid 60's
Jock Allen
Got value for money those days
Laura Mills Detlaff
Admin
Isn't it on the left, across the road from the Greymouth Star?
Reply4h
Geoffrey King
Laura Mills Detlaff Isn't what on the left side across from the Greymouth Evening Star. The Christchurch Press offices were on the left side of the road across from the GM Star where Pat Taylor and Les Guiney were the reporters. As I stated the building being demolished was the Inland Revenue, they shifted further west down Mackay to opposite the Beaths building (Duncan Hardie) Norcassa is on the right side western end of the double brick building cnr Mackay and Waite street
Reply2h
Stephanie Keen
My grandmother Eva Rostern owned the Norcassa in the early 1950s. The queues on Friday night apparently were down the block. She was a fabulous cook.
Geoffrey King
Yes the western end of the building was the Norcassa. The building being demolished I think was the Inland Revenue building
Rob Absalom
E J Hornsby Painting and Decorating had the building in the bottom right in the 70s.
Grahame Kelly
Was the Grey River Argus printed there also?
Les Holmes Germanicus
Sixpence worth was a scoop and one big piece of fish. That was our treat for tea before we got on the 5 o'clock steam train home from a Saturday afternoon at the pictures. I and my two sisters had all that entertainment and treats, railway fares all for 10 bob.
Elaine Rainey
Les Holmes Germanicus Great times Les
June Griggs
My Mum worked there in there.
Dianne Johnson
Was there a gentleman, first name Peter who worked there early 1960’s.
Sarah Ann Owen
Mr and Mrs King ran the Norcassa and also the Tudor tearoom at some point in maybe the 60's or early 70's. I do not know their first names as was young and they were always called Mr and Mrs King even by the staff if I remember correctly. Best fish and chips in town
Bronwen Skates
Great times. Not in Greymouth but my home town Reefton we did same . Go to Pictures then get sixpence worth of decent amount of chips and a piece of fish in newspaper to eat on way home . Great days .
Anna Panther
I remember that shop fondly Chrissie Schaef worked there & our Nana used to take us there to get f & c when we come to town! Joel, Lauren,
Sue Vaughan
Great memories walking home over the Cobden bridge with Fish n Chips after a movie. Best Fish n Chips ever.
Hazel Oldham
As kids we loved ti go diwn to greymouth for Friday night shopping with mum and dad .bring it back get people out on the weekends .a good idea for tourist .the only late night shopping in nz
Lyn Whittle
Donna Vincent didn’t your mum work there?
Lyn Whittle
I remember those shops , there was a funky boutique there in the late 1970s just before it was demolished, I bought an amazing outfit from there with my first pay .
Lyn Gosling
Between Norcassa's and the garage on the next corner, was my parents' shop when i was at school. Cohen's Garden Centre. The verandah was over the fruit and vege part, and the adjacent building was the garden and plant area. After the Inangahua quake this building wouldn't have been safe anymore, but we had moved to Blackball by then. We used to have Norcassa's fish and chips on a Friday night which was late closing night.
Ann Hobden
My father, Charles King, owned the Norcasa (only one s) in the late sixties and seventies. The immediately previous owner was Ron Negri who I think succeeded Brian Vieceli.Sue Vaughan
Great memories walking home over the Cobden bridge with Fish n Chips after a movie. Best Fish n Chips ever.
Suzanne McPherson
Sue Vaughan same, exactly. Sometimes that river was high too
Sue Vaughan
Suzanne McPherson certainly was
Hazel Oldham
As kids we loved ti go diwn to greymouth for Friday night shopping with mum and dad .bring it back get people out on the weekends .a good idea for tourist .the only late night shopping in nz
Lyn Whittle
Donna Vincent didn’t your mum work there?
Lyn Whittle
I remember those shops , there was a funky boutique there in the late 1970s just before it was demolished, I bought an amazing outfit from there with my first pay .
Lyn Gosling
Between Norcassa's and the garage on the next corner, was my parents' shop when i was at school. Cohen's Garden Centre. The verandah was over the fruit and vege part, and the adjacent building was the garden and plant area. After the Inangahua quake this building wouldn't have been safe anymore, but we had moved to Blackball by then. We used to have Norcassa's fish and chips on a Friday night which was late closing night.
Reply2d
Ann Hobden
My father, Charles King, owned the Norcasa (only one s) in the late sixties and seventies. The immediately previous owner was Ron Negri who I think succeeded Brian Vieceli.
Kerry Molloy
Tony K-can you remember qwhen we were kids at moana the ir was a shooting at a F&Cshop in that end of town -???NOrcassa. Sure it was over a girl .Had an uncle who happend upon it shortly after it happened ???IIRClate 1950-ealry 1960s.
Kelvin Webster
Ed Preston father of Dame Gaylene Preston managed the Norcasa in the late 50 s
Gaylene Preston
My parents, Ed and Tui Preston bought the Norcassa from the Vichelies around 1951/52 and served fish and chips (no pre-cooking) until September 1957. The first year they were hit by the Southland potato blight which tripled the cost of a chip. They nearly went bust. Ed took on a country milk run from Karoro to the Paroa store to supplement their earnings. With no freezers back then in a good whitebait season, he would be left a quart of whitebait at the gate to swap for a quart of milk because people knew he could sell them in the shop. Once my parents cooked 400 whitebait fritters for a Savage Club Ladies Night do. And my father would go down the wharf and bring back a sack of oysters to open for extra cash.
Kelvin Webster
Good on you cous..saw you in the Sunday Times....
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