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Pipeline between Anzac Park and Preston Road, Greymouth.1980.
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DescriptionHere is the most talked about pipe we used to ride on and walk along. Taken in 1980sDate of Photo1980Map[1] ContributorKevin Gwatkin
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Malakai Locharte
Walked on that many a time ... wagging school
Cherie Liddell
Troy Liddell rode our bikes over that
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Elaine Rainey
Walked along this at 15 yrs to get to Blaketown school for marching practice.
Mark Rainey
Elaine Rainey Walked along this pipe to wag school...!!!
Andrea Foster
Walked on that a lot going to Adlers..
Madeline Mcgee
Andrea Foster we did it alot to go home from gilmer hotel when pissed
Vui Davison
Kayla Hibbs
Barbara Fitzsimmons
.doult if I could walk a straight line now
Mark Rainey
Best advice. Stay on the pipe...and don't fall into the swamp.
Sandra Arnott
Yip used to do this easy then not sure now even rode my bike over it!
Julie Coggins
I remember walking this always terrified of falling off
Colin Pearce
@
Lucy Pearce @Hannah Pearce ...been there done that
Susan Bonanno
The quickest way to get to netball and Intermediate School from Blaketown
Gina Straker
Rachel Horncastle Weale
Marie Eatwell Goodall Jodi Cairney
Joanne Kanara this was how we got too and from school
Tom Daly
Biked heaps time and walked go whitebaiting down tiphead
Vanette Hawke
Walked across that all the time
Good old days
Michelle Macilquham
I remember walking that with my cousin's.. couldn't do now
Megan Wilson
Joy Creagh Robyn Scott we used to walk this to go to the swimming pool and had to step on to the side pylons if someone needed to get past
Alan Smith
Yes I fell of it pissed one night lol
Brent David
Alan Smith well, why am I not surprised?
Sharyn Noldan
Carol Hughes, mum I remember you telling me how you walked over this pipe when you were a child to get to the baths!
Tracey Cousins
Matt Cousins
Joni Carter
Greg Hine
Heather Newby
walked across to get to the pools
Tracy Piner Mahon
We did it heaps,
Stephen Hunter
fell off many a time lmao
Jill Smith
Walked the pipe several times as a kid.
Ian A Cox
Use to walk over to the swimming pool and the dump to find treasures.
Tony Hartigan
Rode a push bike across it
Lisa McEnaney
Jan Vuillermin Remember Esthers creek …
McKenzee Botica
Lisa McEnaney smelly
Marlene Fawcett
Ohh yes, walked over it many times. Never confident to bike, was worried would fall in
Margaret Harrington
My auntie fell off it
Jan Vuillermin
Yes but that not her is it
Garick Mcdonald
It was like a right of passage
Nigel McLean
Richard and Chris, not sure how we didn't fall off riding over it...
Sheryl Ludlow
Trina Letica we used to walk over this pipe
Trina Letica
Sheryl Ludlow and play leap frog
7h
Gypsy Rover
Monster in the swamp big teeth omg
Mark Barton
Brian Fleming late for class at grey intermediate coz he rode his bike off the pipe and into the drink lol
Mark N Cherie Thompson
Quite a challenge to cross when you have had a few beers.
Glenda MacDonald
It was always the quickest way to the swimming baths, never liked meeting someone coming in the opposite direction because one of you had to get onto the concrete mounts at the side
Brian Case
Use to catch fish at night time
h
Robert Porter
Use to cross it heaps
Charn Marie Waipouri
Ben Waipouri
Kyle Kohe-Lyons Sacha Ryan hell remember these days
Sacha Ryan
Charn Marie Waipouri oh god do I what
Kacey Buick
God ! That pipe
Mary Costello
Kelly Lee ...Josh Josh Leezy Lee
Lynnette Walford
We had these in Denniston and it was one of our favourite playthings ,taught us good balance at least ,the pub on the other side of the school owned a white cockatoo and it used to wander up and down this pipe also...
Dionne Murray
The back entrance to the race course via the stables!
Also rode my bike across that one a few times
Leah Hauraki Maria De Goldi
Maria De Goldi
Dionne Murray Good old days
Sheryl Iraia
My sons short cut home when we lived in Preston Rd.
Karen Dempsey
Remember the days going to the swimming pool
Gill Paul George
Lol! So remember this!
Lyn Thompson
Anyone know when it was built ?used to cross it in the 50s ...
Stuart Chapman
Remember walking it as a kid
David Coach-man
1971, on a fare! riding my bike across there!!! all good until!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a muddy end!
Jonty Pickett
Riding the push bikes over this was fun, Jordy Beamz we use to live at that old pool haha walk or bike this on the daily a. Good old days what I’d do to go back to then
Courtney Young
Caitlyn Tinnelly remember these
Lorraine Lewer
I remember walking this no health and safety back then❗
Debra Wilde
Chris Clark
Ryan Mcvicar
I remember those days.
Jill Adams
Remember it well it was fun
Kenneth Aynsley
I've walked over a few times
Anne Van Looy
That's how we used to sneak into the fair and circus
Heather Newby shared a link.
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· hYesstgStgdhhgSshdeSordgpasoly nsaooSrt 7lec:0d9 PM ·
BLAKETOWN PIPES.
Here is the most talked about pipes we used to ride on and walk along. Taken in 1980s
Contributor - Kevin Gwatkin
Pipeline between Anzac Park and Preston Road, Greymouth.1980.
WESTCOAST.RECOLLECT.CO.NZ
Pipeline between Anzac Park and Preston Road, Greymouth.1980.
Location (city or town): Greymouth | Contributor: Kevin Gwatkin | Read the full record details for Photograph: Pipeline between Anzac Park and Preston Road, Greymouth.1980.
115 Comments
Lisa McEnaney
Jan Vuillermin Remember Esthers creek …
· Reply · 23h
McKenzee Botica
Lisa McEnaney smelly
· Reply · 21h
Marlene Fawcett
Ohh yes, walked over it many times. Never confident to bike, was
Margaret Harrington
My auntie fell off it
Jan Vuillermin
Yes but that not her is it
Garick Mcdonald
It was like a right of passage
Brendon Menzies
Charn Marie Waipouri
Charn Marie Waipouri
Brendon Menzies oh hell no haha!
Nigel McLean
Richard and Chris, not sure how we didn't fall off riding over it...
Sheryl Ludlow
Trina Letica we used to walk over this pipe
Trina Letica
Sheryl Ludlow and play leap frog
Sheryl Ludlow
Trina Letica yes
GIF
Gypsy Rover
Monster in the swamp big teeth omg
Mark Barton
Brian Fleming late for class at grey intermediate coz he rode his bike off the pipe and into the drink lol
Mark N Cherie Thompson
Quite a challenge to cross when you have had a few beers.
Glenda MacDonald
It was always the quickest way to the swimming baths, never liked meeting someone coming in the opposite direction because one of you had to get onto the concrete mounts at the side
Brian Case
Use to catch fish at night time
Robert Porter
Use to cross it heaps
Charn Marie Waipouri
Ben Waipouri
Kyle Kohe-Lyons Sacha Ryan hell remember these days
Sacha Ryan
Charn Marie Waipouri oh god do I what
Kacey Buick
God ! That pipe
Mary Costello
Kelly Lee ...Josh Josh Leezy Lee
Lynnette Walford
We had these in Denniston and it was one of our favourite playthings ,taught us good balance at least ,the pub on the other side of the school owned a white cockatoo and it used to wander up and down this pipe also...
Dionne Murray
The back entrance to the race course via the stables!
Also rode my bike across that one a few times
Leah Hauraki Maria De Goldi
Maria De Goldi
Dionne Murray Good old days
Sheryl Iraia
My sons short cut home when we lived in Preston Rd.
Karen Dempsey
Remember the days going to the swimming pool
Gill Paul George
Lol! So remember this!
Lyn Thompson
Anyone know when it was built ?used to cross it in the 50s ...
Stuart Chapman
Remember walking it as a kid
David Coach-man
1971, on a fare! riding my bike across there!!! all good until!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a muddy end!
Jonty Pickett
Riding the push bikes over this was fun, Jordy Beamz we use to live at that old pool haha walk or bike this on the daily a. Good old days what I’d do to go back to then
Courtney Young
Caitlyn Tinnelly remember these
Lorraine Lewer
I remember walking this no health and safety back then
Debra Wilde
Chris Clark
Ryan Mcvicar
I remember those days.
Jill Adams
Remember it well it was fun
Kenneth Aynsley
I've walked over a few times
Anne Van Looy
That's how we used to sneak into the fair and circus
Nina Townsend
Anne Van Looy lol i remember setting my sister up so i could get into a circus. Pretty sure we had money but dont know y i didnt want to spend some circus dude fancied my sister so i arrange a meet up lol
Dianne Smith
those Smith boys must of been a worry at times. I ended up marrying one of them Ken.
Daphne Fitton
Used to walk it when I worked at the hospital we lived next to Gwatkins on Preston Road
Brett Adler
Are the pipes still there
Jason Mather
try riding ya bike over that, its exciting to say the least, i used to walk my bike over it at 1st then i decided to try & ride it & it wasn't too bad, taught ya to balance fast
Garth Swale
Yes walked and biked over there what great times they where
Steph JF
Who is the person in the photo?
Vaughan Smith
Kayaked under that pipe heaps of times. High tide. From the creek under pipe and up Grey river to rail bridge. Seen a few shark's up close. I thought no big deal.
Walked and biked over the pipe heaps. Never fell in.
Debora Tracey Pedersen-Gould
Dud that a few times
Rob Little
A Ballens lemonade was your reward for those crossed and were willing to scale a high fence. Theoretically speaking of course.
Sonia Dando
Try walking the pipe line from Perth to Kalgoorlie
Remember the Blaketown one never walked it though
Tones Avic Derek
Loved walking and riding across that as a kid. Ultimate fear test for kids , esp if someone coming the other way
Beautiful place
Michelle Dawson
Is it still there? I remember walking across it in the eighties
Laura Mills Detlaff
Admin
Yes it is
Jayden Spicer - Peter Wilde King don't no how many times we walked back and forward over this.
Peter Wilde King - Jayden Spicer Hah, yeah good old days.
Jayden Spicer - Peter Wilde King, hard out.
John Osborne - Jayden Spicer fell off a few times.
Jayden Spicer - John Osborne few to many.
Esther Edwards - My brother, sister and I went over that heaps, was fun, but was scared of the crabs belowAlan Sheard
Josh Skafer good memorys here bruv cheers for the hand up once I fell off full drunk Lucky I fall into that Flatbush lol
Betty Tindale
Great fun on if you stayed on covered in mud many times
Donna Vincent
Berna-John Olsen lol I remember you and I walking over it a few years back now and it feeling alot more scary than it did when we were younger
Berna-John Olsen
Donna Vincent i thought you were going to have to be rescued LOL
Steph Jean Dawn Flowers
I use to walk and bike across this every day.... such memories
Tracey A Weaver
Good times!!
Amber Jane Forsyth
Never rode my bike over here, bad enough walking over it!
Margaret Wilde
We use to take a short cut to high school across that pipe. Had to piggy back my sister Karen cause she wouldn't walk it.
Barb Turner
great short cut when wagging school John Sara
Went across it many times all those years ago
Felicity Pudds
Lost a Spaniel "Sam" over he side as youngsters, he was fine but muddy, what a drama
Helen Russ
Ran over there heaps
John Jack Walter
good times in blaketown
Raewyn Taylor
OMG I recall some scary moments crossing this pipe !!Not all during daytime ?Steve Batey
Used to walk that regularly - we lived at the top of the steps you can see in the background, and grand parents lived on Prestons Road
Wayne Nicholson
Steve Batey . Me too !
Sandra Arnott
Steve Batey me to!
Anne Bruce
I had a school friend who used roller skates on this, scared me something awful. Others biked over it.
Jeanne Thomson
Biked over it a number of times
Lobesy Lobesy
Jeanne Thomson same, last time I was home I tried running over it, turned out to be a very ginger walk in the end.
Jason Wilson
Jeanne Thomson I could bearly walk it
William Mcdonald
Used to walk over that
Debbie Cogger Griffin
Ray Port memories lol
Ray Port
Debbie Cogger Griffin oh gosh yes.
We braved this a few times Deb.
Was a challenge to ride across it without falling off.
Debbie Cogger Griffin
Ray Port absolutely the best times ,so much fun
Ray Port
Debbie Cogger Griffin maybe when I return we could get some bikes and have another go.
Debbie Cogger Griffin
Ray Port you have been practicing lol
Ray Port
Debbie Cogger Griffin
Ria King
Debbie Cogger Griffin loads of fun memories
Debbie Cogger Griffin
Ria King absolutely
Helen Joan Forrest
Been over that more times than I care to mention
Wendy Bruce
Who didn’t walk over it
Mel Riddle
Do people still walk over it?
Linda Chandler
WOW. I remember walking across that as a young girl when we used to stay at my nana"s who lived on Prestons road.
Ray Moreton
I fell off it once
Tyson Evans
Was a way to not be seen when bunking school and walking to Blaketown
Stephen Murray
Off for a smoke during school time lol
Kelly Wright
I used by bike over it on my way to intermediate. Sarah N Brent
Sarah N Brent
Kelly Wright yup
Tarina Brown
Walked that many of times
Lynette Jenkins Mott
Tarina Brown Did you fall off ?
Tarina Brown
Lynette Jenkins Mott yes lol
Lynette Jenkins Mott
Tarina Brown
Shona Duthie
I use to love walking that I miss the good old days
Raewyne Whitcombe Walker
Brings so many memories back..
Michelle Mclean
I walked over that many times as a kid
Dan Mckinley
Used to ride across .
Vicki Roper
dunno how I did it now - but I rode my bike across
Trish Rennie
Lily Stufkens I think you may remember this
Ian Coates
Right of passage for blaketown kids heading to the baths,its over grown at the anzac park end now,since the flood wall was built next door
David Coach-man
back in 70/71 rode across it a few time on a bike! crashed out a couple of times!!! lol of to be young and stupid!
Mason Cooksley
Had a look at the pipe a few months ago, is very slippery now and I'm not as young and brave as I used to be.
Ian Tennent
Some of us rode bikes along it. Not much fun when you went over the side!!
Lana Naisbitt
Lisa Lynne Beckman
Peter J Hynes
Anna Hynes u ride horses across this
Anna Hynes
Peter J Hynes haha. I did walk across it though.
Christine Knight
Used it all the time.hard when u met someone coming the other way though.used to walk my bike over it as well
Ann-Maree Duncan
Is it still there ?
Carole Holley
Was a regular pass time growing up in greymouth
Robyn Edwards
Carole Holley sure was..
Beverley Smith
Melanie Jayne Hughes good times
Margaret Wilde
We walked that pipe to n from school.
Tony Froome
A few of us rode our motor bikes ova it bit hard getting them up the town side easy the blaketown side though
Jeff Louwman
used to go eeling off here
Russell Smith
I remember biking over it..
Des Kennedy
And there is our home upper right on the cnr of Cowper and Franklin Sts
Sharon Fraser-Tapp
Walked it many times.
Heather Newby
a thoroughfare for Blaketown kids going to the swimming baths
Brent Campbell
Walked and biked over the pipe in the intermediate days .no floodwall back then lol
Mark Bradford
Walked over it many times
Amber Jane Forsyth
I'm pretty sure most Blaketown kids would of walked or biked across this back in the day!!!
Maree Budd
I used to ride my bike ova that 2x daily to see Nana & Pop in Prestons Rd and had a fall off pissed at 16 long walk to end lmao
Brendon Pongia
So remember this as a kid.
Mary Costello
Kelly Lee Josh Leezy Lee
Murray Beckman
Biked over it once and that was more than enough
Brendan Stewart
Linda Sting
Geoff Bone
Quite a few drunk nights walking home from parties at Nigel Webster house in Blaketown
Wayne Russell
Geoff Bone used to ride our bikes over it to.
Geoff Bone
Wayne Russell same m8.would def end up in drink if try now.lol
Gordon Iafeta
Fastest way to intermediate school from Blakos by the sea
Lisa Arrandale
Omg the number of times I crossed that thing. Happy times
Te Rua Mason
Ant Coakley
Ant Coakley
Te Rua Mason good shortcut back in the day
Vui Davison
Kayla Hibbs member that night lol
Kayla Hibbs
Vui Davison how can I not
Cherie Liddell
Troy Liddell you remember biking over this?
Melanie Galbraith
Being a Blaketownnight. Lol
Rodger Fredericks
Walked it many a time
Krissie Billett
I hated this
Delia Hendry
Anna Taylor remember walking across this.
Anna Taylor
Delia Hendry yes
Michael Kennedy
Seen many ride/run over this early/mid eighties, off to the swinburne house
Peter Mcgurk
Used it many times to visit my grandmother in Blaketown.
JT Brears
The amount of times me and my friends walked over that drunk to get to bp is nuts
Matthew McInroe
Mike Ruypers
Sarah McInroe
Matthew McInroe
Mike Ruypers im still sorry
John Osborne
Biked across it a couple times
Rob Lunn
Done all that stuff but wouldn’t do it now interesting Geoff that the Websters lived in Blaketown When I knew Nigel he was feeding the sea gulls in Karoro fairly regularly
Brian Morris
Was quite a thrill as a kid to walk across it the first time
Geoff Bone
Lol.he flatted there for coupke of years when playing senior rugby. Hard case flat full of rugger boys
Rob Lunn
All no hopers no doubt remembering your league origins Geoffrey
Lynn Sheldon
Used to walk that on a Saturday going to roller skating
Mary Prendergast
Ann-Maree Duncan yes
Jason Mather
Push biked over this
Sandra Rooney
Did that short cut once only
Carmen Hampton
I remember it well. Couldn’t do it now!!!
Heather Newby
Carmen Hampton i do it every time i go down there.. its much shorter now
Reply1d
Simone Phillips
Sam White
Reply22h
Janelle Hopkins
Janna Sherman Remember this lol
Janna Sherman
Janelle Hopkins not always the cleanest short cut
Suzanne Grant
Yup with the rest of yis, walked over it many times, great fun when you got a run on and got the wobbles lol More than likely whilst wagging school
Michael Kennedy
Suzanne Grant you wagging school never
Gary Bennett
We used it to walk to swimming baths from Blaketown
Christine Farrell
I remember them
Sue Scott
Great photo
Glenda Bishop
Now, that's a great memory!
Odette Port
yes i used to walk along it to the swimming pool also . used to hate looking into the water always big eels swimming around
Mary Saxon Faulkner
I used to run over it as I was terrified I might fall off it...
Pauline Lynette Piner
ask john bishop he fell on the lagoon not smelling like daisies not sooo cool
Liz N Steve Packer
Now that takes me back to my childhood!
Gary Rauhihi
Rode my bike across it many times. Fell off it once bike and all. Soft landing a nice mushy swamp. lol
Sue Scott
I was always relieved to get to the bridge bit....remember having to get on to the bits (Technical word not known) for the brave kids who rode their bikes to pass.
Pauline Lynette Piner
it was a highway bikes flying along the tunnel phew it stunk on hot days
Odette Port
even worst with low tide had to all but peg the nose
Lucy Pearce
Hannah Pearce we did this just last year!!!
Hannah Pearce
Yup!!
Lorraine Phillips
I walked across that many times. Was never game enough to ride a bike over though.
Kelly Williams
Use to wag school down there, walk over it all the time or ride our bikes ...Bull Haussmann
Lois Watts
Great short cut to the swimming baths and Netball courts
Linka Roberts
I used to walk from blake town to grey high every morning lol fell off once or twice
Thomas Thwaites
Jasmine Dodemaide
Janet Leeks
Does anyone know when the pipe was built ?
Melissa Diedrichs
Lol my sister Gina Blair pushed me off a few times. Walked it many times.
Raquel Wilson
I used to walk to netball every Saturday over that
Kevin Gwatkin
and I thought we kids were the only ones who did that. It obviously was like a second road to Greymouth.
Melissa Diedrichs
Sure was from Blaketown. Highschool, intermediate, netball, swimming pool were all so much closer using "The Pipe"
Malcolm Howell
I know at low tide it was a fair drop to the water or the mud if you were lucky.
Malakai Locharte
Walked on that many a time ... wagging school
Cherie Liddell
Troy Liddell rode our bikes over that
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Elaine Rainey
Walked along this at 15 yrs to get to Blaketown school for marching practice.
Mark Rainey
Elaine Rainey Walked along this pipe to wag school...!!!
Andrea Foster
Walked on that a lot going to Adlers..
Madeline Mcgee
Andrea Foster we did it alot to go home from gilmer hotel when pissed
Vui Davison
Kayla Hibbs
Barbara Fitzsimmons
.doult if I could walk a straight line now
Mark Rainey
Best advice. Stay on the pipe...and don't fall into the swamp.
Sandra Arnott
Yip used to do this easy then not sure now even rode my bike over it!
Julie Coggins
I remember walking this always terrified of falling off
Colin Pearce
@
Lucy Pearce @Hannah Pearce ...been there done that
Susan Bonanno
The quickest way to get to netball and Intermediate School from Blaketown
Gina Straker
Rachel Horncastle Weale
Marie Eatwell Goodall Jodi Cairney
Joanne Kanara this was how we got too and from school
Tom Daly
Biked heaps time and walked go whitebaiting down tiphead
Vanette Hawke
Walked across that all the time
Good old days
Michelle Macilquham
I remember walking that with my cousin's.. couldn't do now
Megan Wilson
Joy Creagh Robyn Scott we used to walk this to go to the swimming pool and had to step on to the side pylons if someone needed to get past
Alan Smith
Yes I fell of it pissed one night lol
Brent David
Alan Smith well, why am I not surprised?
Sharyn Noldan
Carol Hughes, mum I remember you telling me how you walked over this pipe when you were a child to get to the baths!
Tracey Cousins
Matt Cousins
Joni Carter
Greg Hine
Heather Newby
walked across to get to the pools
Tracy Piner Mahon
We did it heaps,
Stephen Hunter
fell off many a time lmao
Jill Smith
Walked the pipe several times as a kid.
Ian A Cox
Use to walk over to the swimming pool and the dump to find treasures.
Tony Hartigan
Rode a push bike across it
Lisa McEnaney
Jan Vuillermin Remember Esthers creek …
McKenzee Botica
Lisa McEnaney smelly
Marlene Fawcett
Ohh yes, walked over it many times. Never confident to bike, was worried would fall in
Margaret Harrington
My auntie fell off it
Jan Vuillermin
Yes but that not her is it
Garick Mcdonald
It was like a right of passage
Nigel McLean
Richard and Chris, not sure how we didn't fall off riding over it...
Sheryl Ludlow
Trina Letica we used to walk over this pipe
Trina Letica
Sheryl Ludlow and play leap frog
7h
Gypsy Rover
Monster in the swamp big teeth omg
Mark Barton
Brian Fleming late for class at grey intermediate coz he rode his bike off the pipe and into the drink lol
Mark N Cherie Thompson
Quite a challenge to cross when you have had a few beers.
Glenda MacDonald
It was always the quickest way to the swimming baths, never liked meeting someone coming in the opposite direction because one of you had to get onto the concrete mounts at the side
Brian Case
Use to catch fish at night time
h
Robert Porter
Use to cross it heaps
Charn Marie Waipouri
Ben Waipouri
Kyle Kohe-Lyons Sacha Ryan hell remember these days
Sacha Ryan
Charn Marie Waipouri oh god do I what
Kacey Buick
God ! That pipe
Mary Costello
Kelly Lee ...Josh Josh Leezy Lee
Lynnette Walford
We had these in Denniston and it was one of our favourite playthings ,taught us good balance at least ,the pub on the other side of the school owned a white cockatoo and it used to wander up and down this pipe also...
Dionne Murray
The back entrance to the race course via the stables!
Also rode my bike across that one a few times
Leah Hauraki Maria De Goldi
Maria De Goldi
Dionne Murray Good old days
Sheryl Iraia
My sons short cut home when we lived in Preston Rd.
Karen Dempsey
Remember the days going to the swimming pool
Gill Paul George
Lol! So remember this!
Lyn Thompson
Anyone know when it was built ?used to cross it in the 50s ...
Stuart Chapman
Remember walking it as a kid
David Coach-man
1971, on a fare! riding my bike across there!!! all good until!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a muddy end!
Jonty Pickett
Riding the push bikes over this was fun, Jordy Beamz we use to live at that old pool haha walk or bike this on the daily a. Good old days what I’d do to go back to then
Courtney Young
Caitlyn Tinnelly remember these
Lorraine Lewer
I remember walking this no health and safety back then❗
Debra Wilde
Chris Clark
Ryan Mcvicar
I remember those days.
Jill Adams
Remember it well it was fun
Kenneth Aynsley
I've walked over a few times
Anne Van Looy
That's how we used to sneak into the fair and circus
Heather Newby shared a link.
Admin
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BLAKETOWN PIPES.
Here is the most talked about pipes we used to ride on and walk along. Taken in 1980s
Contributor - Kevin Gwatkin
Pipeline between Anzac Park and Preston Road, Greymouth.1980.
WESTCOAST.RECOLLECT.CO.NZ
Pipeline between Anzac Park and Preston Road, Greymouth.1980.
Location (city or town): Greymouth | Contributor: Kevin Gwatkin | Read the full record details for Photograph: Pipeline between Anzac Park and Preston Road, Greymouth.1980.
115 Comments
Lisa McEnaney
Jan Vuillermin Remember Esthers creek …
· Reply · 23h
McKenzee Botica
Lisa McEnaney smelly
· Reply · 21h
Marlene Fawcett
Ohh yes, walked over it many times. Never confident to bike, was
Margaret Harrington
My auntie fell off it
Jan Vuillermin
Yes but that not her is it
Garick Mcdonald
It was like a right of passage
Brendon Menzies
Charn Marie Waipouri
Charn Marie Waipouri
Brendon Menzies oh hell no haha!
Nigel McLean
Richard and Chris, not sure how we didn't fall off riding over it...
Sheryl Ludlow
Trina Letica we used to walk over this pipe
Trina Letica
Sheryl Ludlow and play leap frog
Sheryl Ludlow
Trina Letica yes
GIF
Gypsy Rover
Monster in the swamp big teeth omg
Mark Barton
Brian Fleming late for class at grey intermediate coz he rode his bike off the pipe and into the drink lol
Mark N Cherie Thompson
Quite a challenge to cross when you have had a few beers.
Glenda MacDonald
It was always the quickest way to the swimming baths, never liked meeting someone coming in the opposite direction because one of you had to get onto the concrete mounts at the side
Brian Case
Use to catch fish at night time
Robert Porter
Use to cross it heaps
Charn Marie Waipouri
Ben Waipouri
Kyle Kohe-Lyons Sacha Ryan hell remember these days
Sacha Ryan
Charn Marie Waipouri oh god do I what
Kacey Buick
God ! That pipe
Mary Costello
Kelly Lee ...Josh Josh Leezy Lee
Lynnette Walford
We had these in Denniston and it was one of our favourite playthings ,taught us good balance at least ,the pub on the other side of the school owned a white cockatoo and it used to wander up and down this pipe also...
Dionne Murray
The back entrance to the race course via the stables!
Also rode my bike across that one a few times
Leah Hauraki Maria De Goldi
Maria De Goldi
Dionne Murray Good old days
Sheryl Iraia
My sons short cut home when we lived in Preston Rd.
Karen Dempsey
Remember the days going to the swimming pool
Gill Paul George
Lol! So remember this!
Lyn Thompson
Anyone know when it was built ?used to cross it in the 50s ...
Stuart Chapman
Remember walking it as a kid
David Coach-man
1971, on a fare! riding my bike across there!!! all good until!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a muddy end!
Jonty Pickett
Riding the push bikes over this was fun, Jordy Beamz we use to live at that old pool haha walk or bike this on the daily a. Good old days what I’d do to go back to then
Courtney Young
Caitlyn Tinnelly remember these
Lorraine Lewer
I remember walking this no health and safety back then
Debra Wilde
Chris Clark
Ryan Mcvicar
I remember those days.
Jill Adams
Remember it well it was fun
Kenneth Aynsley
I've walked over a few times
Anne Van Looy
That's how we used to sneak into the fair and circus
Nina Townsend
Anne Van Looy lol i remember setting my sister up so i could get into a circus. Pretty sure we had money but dont know y i didnt want to spend some circus dude fancied my sister so i arrange a meet up lol
Dianne Smith
those Smith boys must of been a worry at times. I ended up marrying one of them Ken.
Daphne Fitton
Used to walk it when I worked at the hospital we lived next to Gwatkins on Preston Road
Brett Adler
Are the pipes still there
Jason Mather
try riding ya bike over that, its exciting to say the least, i used to walk my bike over it at 1st then i decided to try & ride it & it wasn't too bad, taught ya to balance fast
Garth Swale
Yes walked and biked over there what great times they where
Steph JF
Who is the person in the photo?
Vaughan Smith
Kayaked under that pipe heaps of times. High tide. From the creek under pipe and up Grey river to rail bridge. Seen a few shark's up close. I thought no big deal.
Walked and biked over the pipe heaps. Never fell in.
Debora Tracey Pedersen-Gould
Dud that a few times
Rob Little
A Ballens lemonade was your reward for those crossed and were willing to scale a high fence. Theoretically speaking of course.
Sonia Dando
Try walking the pipe line from Perth to Kalgoorlie
Remember the Blaketown one never walked it though
Tones Avic Derek
Loved walking and riding across that as a kid. Ultimate fear test for kids , esp if someone coming the other way
Beautiful place
Michelle Dawson
Is it still there? I remember walking across it in the eighties
Laura Mills Detlaff
Admin
Yes it is
Jayden Spicer - Peter Wilde King don't no how many times we walked back and forward over this.
Peter Wilde King - Jayden Spicer Hah, yeah good old days.
Jayden Spicer - Peter Wilde King, hard out.
John Osborne - Jayden Spicer fell off a few times.
Jayden Spicer - John Osborne few to many.
Esther Edwards - My brother, sister and I went over that heaps, was fun, but was scared of the crabs belowAlan Sheard
Josh Skafer good memorys here bruv cheers for the hand up once I fell off full drunk Lucky I fall into that Flatbush lol
Betty Tindale
Great fun on if you stayed on covered in mud many times
Donna Vincent
Berna-John Olsen lol I remember you and I walking over it a few years back now and it feeling alot more scary than it did when we were younger
Berna-John Olsen
Donna Vincent i thought you were going to have to be rescued LOL
Steph Jean Dawn Flowers
I use to walk and bike across this every day.... such memories
Tracey A Weaver
Good times!!
Amber Jane Forsyth
Never rode my bike over here, bad enough walking over it!
Margaret Wilde
We use to take a short cut to high school across that pipe. Had to piggy back my sister Karen cause she wouldn't walk it.
Barb Turner
great short cut when wagging school John Sara
Went across it many times all those years ago
Felicity Pudds
Lost a Spaniel "Sam" over he side as youngsters, he was fine but muddy, what a drama
Helen Russ
Ran over there heaps
John Jack Walter
good times in blaketown
Raewyn Taylor
OMG I recall some scary moments crossing this pipe !!Not all during daytime ?Steve Batey
Used to walk that regularly - we lived at the top of the steps you can see in the background, and grand parents lived on Prestons Road
Wayne Nicholson
Steve Batey . Me too !
Sandra Arnott
Steve Batey me to!
Anne Bruce
I had a school friend who used roller skates on this, scared me something awful. Others biked over it.
Jeanne Thomson
Biked over it a number of times
Lobesy Lobesy
Jeanne Thomson same, last time I was home I tried running over it, turned out to be a very ginger walk in the end.
Jason Wilson
Jeanne Thomson I could bearly walk it
William Mcdonald
Used to walk over that
Debbie Cogger Griffin
Ray Port memories lol
Ray Port
Debbie Cogger Griffin oh gosh yes.
We braved this a few times Deb.
Was a challenge to ride across it without falling off.
Debbie Cogger Griffin
Ray Port absolutely the best times ,so much fun
Ray Port
Debbie Cogger Griffin maybe when I return we could get some bikes and have another go.
Debbie Cogger Griffin
Ray Port you have been practicing lol
Ray Port
Debbie Cogger Griffin
Ria King
Debbie Cogger Griffin loads of fun memories
Debbie Cogger Griffin
Ria King absolutely
Helen Joan Forrest
Been over that more times than I care to mention
Wendy Bruce
Who didn’t walk over it
Mel Riddle
Do people still walk over it?
Linda Chandler
WOW. I remember walking across that as a young girl when we used to stay at my nana"s who lived on Prestons road.
Ray Moreton
I fell off it once
Tyson Evans
Was a way to not be seen when bunking school and walking to Blaketown
Stephen Murray
Off for a smoke during school time lol
Kelly Wright
I used by bike over it on my way to intermediate. Sarah N Brent
Sarah N Brent
Kelly Wright yup
Tarina Brown
Walked that many of times
Lynette Jenkins Mott
Tarina Brown Did you fall off ?
Tarina Brown
Lynette Jenkins Mott yes lol
Lynette Jenkins Mott
Tarina Brown
Shona Duthie
I use to love walking that I miss the good old days
Raewyne Whitcombe Walker
Brings so many memories back..
Michelle Mclean
I walked over that many times as a kid
Dan Mckinley
Used to ride across .
Vicki Roper
dunno how I did it now - but I rode my bike across
Trish Rennie
Lily Stufkens I think you may remember this
Ian Coates
Right of passage for blaketown kids heading to the baths,its over grown at the anzac park end now,since the flood wall was built next door
David Coach-man
back in 70/71 rode across it a few time on a bike! crashed out a couple of times!!! lol of to be young and stupid!
Mason Cooksley
Had a look at the pipe a few months ago, is very slippery now and I'm not as young and brave as I used to be.
Ian Tennent
Some of us rode bikes along it. Not much fun when you went over the side!!
Lana Naisbitt
Lisa Lynne Beckman
Peter J Hynes
Anna Hynes u ride horses across this
Anna Hynes
Peter J Hynes haha. I did walk across it though.
Christine Knight
Used it all the time.hard when u met someone coming the other way though.used to walk my bike over it as well
Ann-Maree Duncan
Is it still there ?
Carole Holley
Was a regular pass time growing up in greymouth
Robyn Edwards
Carole Holley sure was..
Beverley Smith
Melanie Jayne Hughes good times
Margaret Wilde
We walked that pipe to n from school.
Tony Froome
A few of us rode our motor bikes ova it bit hard getting them up the town side easy the blaketown side though
Jeff Louwman
used to go eeling off here
Russell Smith
I remember biking over it..
Des Kennedy
And there is our home upper right on the cnr of Cowper and Franklin Sts
Sharon Fraser-Tapp
Walked it many times.
Heather Newby
a thoroughfare for Blaketown kids going to the swimming baths
Brent Campbell
Walked and biked over the pipe in the intermediate days .no floodwall back then lol
Mark Bradford
Walked over it many times
Amber Jane Forsyth
I'm pretty sure most Blaketown kids would of walked or biked across this back in the day!!!
Maree Budd
I used to ride my bike ova that 2x daily to see Nana & Pop in Prestons Rd and had a fall off pissed at 16 long walk to end lmao
Brendon Pongia
So remember this as a kid.
Mary Costello
Kelly Lee Josh Leezy Lee
Murray Beckman
Biked over it once and that was more than enough
Brendan Stewart
Linda Sting
Geoff Bone
Quite a few drunk nights walking home from parties at Nigel Webster house in Blaketown
Wayne Russell
Geoff Bone used to ride our bikes over it to.
Geoff Bone
Wayne Russell same m8.would def end up in drink if try now.lol
Gordon Iafeta
Fastest way to intermediate school from Blakos by the sea
Lisa Arrandale
Omg the number of times I crossed that thing. Happy times
Te Rua Mason
Ant Coakley
Ant Coakley
Te Rua Mason good shortcut back in the day
Vui Davison
Kayla Hibbs member that night lol
Kayla Hibbs
Vui Davison how can I not
Cherie Liddell
Troy Liddell you remember biking over this?
Melanie Galbraith
Being a Blaketownnight. Lol
Rodger Fredericks
Walked it many a time
Krissie Billett
I hated this
Delia Hendry
Anna Taylor remember walking across this.
Anna Taylor
Delia Hendry yes
Michael Kennedy
Seen many ride/run over this early/mid eighties, off to the swinburne house
Peter Mcgurk
Used it many times to visit my grandmother in Blaketown.
JT Brears
The amount of times me and my friends walked over that drunk to get to bp is nuts
Matthew McInroe
Mike Ruypers
Sarah McInroe
Matthew McInroe
Mike Ruypers im still sorry
John Osborne
Biked across it a couple times
Rob Lunn
Done all that stuff but wouldn’t do it now interesting Geoff that the Websters lived in Blaketown When I knew Nigel he was feeding the sea gulls in Karoro fairly regularly
Brian Morris
Was quite a thrill as a kid to walk across it the first time
Geoff Bone
Lol.he flatted there for coupke of years when playing senior rugby. Hard case flat full of rugger boys
Rob Lunn
All no hopers no doubt remembering your league origins Geoffrey
Lynn Sheldon
Used to walk that on a Saturday going to roller skating
Mary Prendergast
Ann-Maree Duncan yes
Jason Mather
Push biked over this
Sandra Rooney
Did that short cut once only
Carmen Hampton
I remember it well. Couldn’t do it now!!!
Heather Newby
Carmen Hampton i do it every time i go down there.. its much shorter now
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Simone Phillips
Sam White
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Janelle Hopkins
Janna Sherman Remember this lol
Janna Sherman
Janelle Hopkins not always the cleanest short cut
Suzanne Grant
Yup with the rest of yis, walked over it many times, great fun when you got a run on and got the wobbles lol More than likely whilst wagging school
Michael Kennedy
Suzanne Grant you wagging school never
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