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Rathbuns store,was opposite Grey High , High Street.Greymouth.
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LinkFacebook LinkDate Created7th July 2014CommentsGlenda Bishop where was this Heather Newby
June 4, 2014 at 11:00pm · Unlike · 1
Heather Newby
Heather Newby This shop was opposite the High school and the kids used to buy sweets from this shop after school... and pies at lunchtime
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Glenda Bishop
Glenda Bishop It became the 4 square and was where the pizza shop is now, across from the petrol station?
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Mark Wagenaar
Mark Wagenaar it waz on the new world site i think if it the rite building
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Sue Scott
Sue Scott used to have good pies, before the high school got a canteen
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Glenda Bishop
Glenda Bishop I think the high school got rid of the canteen when I was in the 3rd form. So yeah, lunch came from over the road. What years were you at Grey High Sue?
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Sue Scott
Sue Scott it only came there when I was in the fifth form so it didn't last long then did it
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Glenda Bishop
Glenda Bishop Haha, just realised. I went through Blaketown - Grey High with Russell.
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby Yes Mark Wagenaar I think it was on the New World site.
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Glenda Bishop
Glenda Bishop in the corner of the new world car park are a couple of shops, 1 being pizza. That's where this was
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Janet Leeks
Janet Leeks I remember Rathburns from my highschool days.
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Karen Bahn
Karen Bahn Blast from the past!!!
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby I used to get Moro bars and Regina toffee tablets from Rathbuns
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Roya Boustridge
Roya Boustridge Remember those coloured windows on the top well.
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Stephen Roberts
Stephen Roberts Dudley was a real character
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Maye Dunn
Maye Dunn Loved this shop..
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Sharron Wright
Sharron Wright It had a hall in the back part of the building
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Stephen Roberts
Stephen Roberts Yeah and a flat upstairs
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby really Sharron Wright ? I didn`t know it had a hall at the back.. how interesting
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby I can see it in my mind`s eye right now.. it was quite big inside the shop.. with the counter along the left hand side.. there were a lot of lollies and sweets there to choose from.Does anyone know when it was demolished? probably when those new shops were built there.
June 5, 2014 at 4:29pm · Like
Stephen Roberts
Stephen Roberts Interestingly enough Dudley had a seriously cool house.Very art deco.Must of cost a fortune back in the day
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Les Holmes Germanicus
Les Holmes Germanicus Just think... this is now Dominos carpark.
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Cyril Hector
Cyril Hector Runniest pies in the land...the meat always ended up in my paper bag!
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Les Holmes Germanicus
Les Holmes Germanicus He was a grumpy old prick, Dudley.
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Tane Afoa
Tane Afoa that's where we bought all our lollies
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Lee Williams
Lee Williams He would sell us Glenvale sherry even though we were in our Grey High uniforms! also I remember being in repertory plays pretty sure the hall was upstairs.
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Mark Wagenaar
Mark Wagenaar my mum knew a lady who lived above the shop in the early 70s ,olive mcmillian,we used 2 visit her alot untill it waz demolished 2 make way 4 new world
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby I vaguely remember the hall around the back.the whole building was sort if "shabby chic"
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Suzanne Mcgeady The gun club used to be in the hall. The 22 range used to be in there.
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Neil Martin
Neil Martin I worked there after school there was a butchers shop down the side a wine shop next door on the right and a ballroom upstairs
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Neil Martin
Neil Martin Dud Rathbun had a large yacht stored out the back and also a motor bike frame that took an austin 7 engine built by Cyril Hector or Cyril Shirley im not sure.
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Neil Martin
Neil Martin he wouldnt part with it
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Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre I can remember a motor bike with a car engine. A silvery homemade looking thing
June 13, 2014 at 7:59pm · Unlike · 1
Neil Martin
Neil Martin If a wasp came into the shop Dud would arm himself with about 6 cans of fly spray and give a squirt out of each then put them all back on the shelf
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Neil Martin
Neil Martin I think there was two built someone like Doug Innes would remember
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Margaret E Sadler
Margaret E Sadler Cyril Hector, Runanga .had a Austin Seven Car engine installed in his 1934 OEC Motorcycle had a duplex steering arrangement.
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Neil Martin
Neil Martin can you remember who had the other?
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Brenda Brown
Brenda Brown RATHBUNS HALL AT REAR LATER ON .
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Margaret E Sadler
Margaret E Sadler Sorry no. Steve Prince might know..
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Neil Martin
Neil Martin Dud used to make his lunch by undoing the wax paper on the end of the Shannon and Glenns bread and take a slice out of a few loaves then tape up the end next he would get a scrapping of butter off of a few LB of butter then bash the end on the counter to hide the evidence.
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Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre Arkwright come to mind
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Neil Martin
Neil Martin He also had a slug gun under the counter to shoot at any dogs that happened to stray through the doors the gun was so knackered he used to slobber all over the slugs to get a better seal.The dog normally just gave a slight lurch and run off I dont think the slugs penetrated
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Margaret E Sadler
Margaret E Sadler Rathburns store. High St.Greymouth
October 4, 2014 at 9:28pm
Mick Bernadette O'Donnell
Mick Bernadette O'Donnell Remember when eggs started coming in cartons,Dudley would repack them in brown paper bags . His mathematics being 10 to the dozen
October 4, 2014 at 11:21pm · Like · 2
Heather Newby
Heather Newby Dudley was grumpy
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Brendon Barrow
Brendon Barrow Was this demolished and rebuilt as a single story shop?
October 5, 2014 at 3:38pm · Like
Wayne Leckie
Wayne Leckie that had a butcher shop down the side,and i think he put a bottle store in to.and yes he could be grumpy to lol
October 5, 2014 at 8:03pm · Like
Neil Martin
Neil Martin Yes Wayne Leckie the bottle / wine shop was on the town side of the High street frontage. Dance Hall upstairs and a butchers shop down the side (Marlborough St) altho when I worked there it was no longer in operation
October 5, 2014 at 8:06pm · Like · 1
Neil Martin
Neil Martin He had some stock then that had been there for god knows how long .Cans of Crayfish from South Africa and bottles of Dr Stranges? Indian Root pills to young then to test them out besides cant recall many Indians about back then .
October 5, 2014 at 8:10pm · Like · 1
Wayne Leckie
Wayne Leckie When you think about he was away ahead of time putting that bottle store in Neil Martin
October 5, 2014 at 8:11pm · Like
Neil Martin
Neil Martin Always looking for a way to make a dollar was old Dud
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Robert Fay Lemon Griffin
Robert Fay Lemon Griffin they used to sell the best pies
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby Ohhh.. i just remembered Rathbuns pies!!
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Kathy Fazio
Kathy Fazio Yes loved buying my lunch on Mondays when I was at HIgh School :)
Dave Howell Yes Dudley Rathurn used to run it and he also sold alcohol and as a 16 year old it was the easiest place to buy it, it was a very old shop inside and the floor was uneven and creaked everywhere
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby I remember that too,, wasnt it sherry??
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby I can still remember the layout of the shop
Linzi Woods
Linzi Woods And they were so cheap... aniseed wheels - Caramel Tabs & Cinnamon Bars MMMM
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Mavis McGuire
Mavis McGuire I remember my mother bying the
Carolyn Luck Phyl cinnamon bars.
Carolyn LuckLeitch worked for Dudley Rathbun for many years.
At the back of the shop was Rathbuns Hall, a very good facility and used a lot.
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Tess Cochrane
Tess Cochrane Anita Thompson
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Rebekah Fairhurst Geer
Rebekah Fairhurst Geer Used to buy dads sherry and rothmans cigarettes, then with the change buy myself lollies, imagine being able to buy your parents alcohol, I was very young!!
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby When i was primary school age i used to buy fags for a neighbor from the shop in Blaketown
Karen Potter We used to get chocolate there and it sometimes had weevil in it.
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Ray Vincent
Ray Vincent remember Dudleys van. an old fordson?? Indoor rifle club was upstairs at the back.
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Joy Baker
Joy Baker What an amazing old building.
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Karen Potter
Karen Potter Think his van was red and cream
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Sue Vaukins
Sue Vaukins The shop I remember the most in town was "Becks" I loved going in there.
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Tania Tones Lawrence
Tania Tones Lawrence Becks emporium? Good shop. The hard icing easter eggs were sometimes in there a bit long ha ha ha ha!
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Sue Vaukins
Sue Vaukins Yes loved those eggs. They were a bit hard sometimes. I've had a go at making them
Robin Whyte I can remember the shop when i was a young boy going in to buy fireworks
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Phil Millar
Phil Millar Wow,how are your teeth now?
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Jamile David Whyte
Jamile David Whyte You are showing your age old Robin Whyte
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Jan Fletcher
Jan Fletcher
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Jan Fletcher
Jan Fletcher Greymouth Repertory was based in the hall, my first experience of "treading the boards" was there as a nun in Sister Josephine
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby Don Hutton
Sheryl O'Leary We used to buy our under aged alcohol there as student nurses when I lived in the nurses home. Cheap too. lol
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David Barry Grant
David Barry Grant I lived next door when at GTHS. Shaws owned house b4 us. At one time think it was a nurses home, as had very large bedrooms with open fireplaces in each room.
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Karen Potter
Karen Potter David grant is Betsy your sister.
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Sheryl Iraia I was a visitor there. Remember the smell an alsortment of food etc
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Justine Gekas
Justine Gekas Our family were customers of Dudley Rathbun, remember that shop well.
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Vernon Pattinson
Vernon Pattinson remember it well i got my lunce there meny a time
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Karen Potter
Karen Potter You are a sweet Tom
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Tom Shine
Tom Shine like my comment you know its true!
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Tom Shine
Tom Shine im glad you think so Karen Potter :)
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Colleen O'Neill Loved the ice cream there when I was at High School 65 yrs ago Wow didn't realise it was so long ago
Jakh Heremia when I started High School 1971, was the shop all the cool kids went to - they sold alcohol (wine) too.
Heather Newby half g`s of sherry
Jakh Heremia Heather Newby lol. never got the chance to go in there - me being a country kid (Camerons),
Heather Newby Jakh Heremia neither was I... i was never cool..but i saw him selling sherry... and it was common knowlege.
Les Holmes Germanicus Who can forget the lunchtime pie sprint and old Dud Rathbun?
Heather Newby I used to buy Snifters from there
Wayne Leckie great pies
Les Holmes Germanicus I've let slip I only went to
Maureen Tones Dudley Rathbun had a butcher shop at the back of his High St. Shop that my dad was the manager .1950's
Wayne Leckie Barry Rutledge ran that butcher shop
Carolyn Luck Rathbun's Hall at the back of the shop was a great hall and venue. It was used a lot.
Carolyn Luck Phyll Leitch worked for Dudley Rathbun for many years.
Linda Hughes Hall above used by dramatic society and miniature rifle association among other things.
Trish Briggs Bought a bit of alcohol from there when we lived in the nurses home.
Heather Newby Trish Briggs sherry in half gallon bottles
Trish Briggs Blackberry Nip Heather Newby. Not sherry for me
Les Holmes Germanicus It's Domino's carpark now.
Barry Kennedy Screwdriver? Gimlet? BlackBerry Nip?
Sharon Gibb-Davies Remember Dud Rathbun he lived across the road from my Great Grandmother and his daughter Stephanie was a neighbour to my great Aunty in Marlborough St. I always looked forward to getting his fresh Sunday bread and cream doughnuts back then and always gave me a packet of lollies
Stephen Roberts Dudley i remember him well a real character
Kevin O'Sullivan Dudley's grocery store and ice cream soda and milk bar
Kevin O'Sullivan Try again. Dudley's "Emporium" was an amasing store. I remember learning how to fix a soda fountain there. Upstairs in the Hall also to Smallbore rifle club target shooting on a week night.
Murray Hay I remember Taddy McSorley getting a milk shake off Dudley, he couldn't suck it up through the straw cos there was a fly in the straw , the good old days, lol
Graham Hutton Now there is a major memory in many was thank you so much....
Selwyn Leitch There was also a hall on the ground floor. It was used on Sunday Mornings as a Presbyterian Sunday school. I recall, walking home from Sunday school, past Rathbun's store seeing a cat sitting on a spurge cake in the window.
Trish Briggs Think the Repertory Theatre used the hall for their shows!
Vaughan Smith Good place to buy fireworks , redjacks, tomthums, thunderbolts, sometimes none of them went boom, duds,,, used to go the shop with small coins and buy sweets
Josephine Rathbun Amy Jensen before my time lol i thibk dads got pics of the inside somewhere
Ray Vincent Used to drive the flat nose fordson? Van around.
Bazza Morland Correct , cream with red guards .
Debbie Ansett High Street 4 Square. I worked there
Evan Grooby I still have the Fordson van from there
Anne Miller Mcmillan My mum Olive beynon mcmillan lived upstairs in one of 2 flats above dudlys shop with my siblings .
Wayne Searle My Grandmother Kitty Searle also had a flat there, she was the Housekeeper at the Hospital
Carolyn Graham Yes Annie - remember it well. Can you recall us going out on the roof to sunbathe and invariably Dudley would hear us and go off his rocker. Didn't stop us though.
Ave Muir Did my dancing exams upstairs about 1959
Manage
Anne Miller Mcmillan Yip i remember. We used to climb thru kitchen window. Dont think much stopped us sis with me being ring leaderWendy Perkins
That beats vaping around the corner.
Sue Simpson
Some pupils crushed the metal milkshake containers. Dudley asked us to identify them - they had school uniform on, were average height, mousy hair, no memorable features... sorry Dudley, we can't help.
Gary Leech
Can’t possibly comment
Except to say we all survived or thrived from our WC upbringing.
Anne Mcmillan Miller
Mum and us kids lived in Rathbuns flats above the shop in early 60s A mrs Searle who was my boss at grey hospital cleaning wards lived in the other flat next to ours
Mark Biddulph
Spewed on black berry nip he sold me
Craig Norman
Mark Biddulph I don't think even Superman could hold that sh-t down.
Lee Williams
Yep, Dud didn’t seem to notice the school uniform . Performed in the theatre upstairs.
Vern Pattinson
Went and got my lunch from there when I was in high school 65 66
Rod Berry
School year 1956, i had my first kiss with Doreen Dennis along side of that building. I was awkwardly a shy learner. Sorry Doreen, wherever you are these days.
Miles Reay
As a prefect at GTHS in 1959, I was given the job of collecting the pie orders from the classrooms, then going over to Rathbuns at lunch time to collect then. Nicest pies I every had until I moved to Carterton.
Brian Steele
I remember where Rathburns shop was but never as a 2 stories builďing
Brian Steele
Is that some relation of Frankie's who owned the shop
Rhondabob Bennett
Our family lived at 10 Marlborough Street and Mum used to regularly get me to “hop over to Dudley’s “ and get something she needed. He would sell anything he had in stock with disregard to the regulations about products,opening hours. Weekend sales very rarely had the same prices as Monday to Friday. A genuine legend !!!
Christine Banks
Communist meetings were held in a room upstairs in the mid to late 1960s.
Sandra Rooney
Had flats above and a hall. Remember it from the early 60s
Eddie Parsons
We had a lot of fun around there,Dudley had one of the first tv s in the side room and all us kids used to watch it there, had a good set up there,I often wonder what happened to his daughter Stephanie, her grandparents lived across the road from us in high street
Pam Englefield-Absolum
No new architectural building, not even Dominoes could replace Rathbun’s store. History gone and left in memories and photos.
Murray Hay
Remember it well!
It was a great old shop, Dudley was a legend!
A workmate of mine got a milkshake from Dudley,
Couldn’t figure out why he couldn’t suck it through the straw till he found the blowfly
Richard Case
those were the days a lot of fun
Janine Halls
I remember Rathbuns!
Loretta Donnelly
Mum had cousins who were Rathbuns. I don’t remember if they were related on the Weir side or the Aynsleys.
PJ Spence
In the 60's - we lived a short walk from the store - too often we would call in to stock up on confectionery for the night - until we realised it was making our clothes shrink?
Dee Foxcroft
Rebekah Fairhurst Geer,
Ack Shell, that’s where we used to buy our bottles of wine when we were 13 & 14
Robert Mathewson
Root beer ,2.5% and drink it while at school and the old house over the road where the mobil is ,party house.
Heather Newby
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I remember Dudley... used to sell booze to us high school kids...sherry.
Martin Burt
Greymouth Repertory society used the hall for plays and montly play readings
Josephine Rathbun
Francis Rathbun
Alan Quinn
Sweetmans and Rathbones.. we called the Sweeter peteman and didley ratbum.
Rob Lunn
What about the under age spirit supply Vern
Jane Georgeson
Dudley was a lovely old guy, loved his old van he had.
Trish Rennie
Remember it well….
Gary Mc Millan
Dudleys favourite saying was how much did you give me will
Murray Webber
Used to buy pies "maggot sacks" as we called them when I was at High School mid 60s, only mince as I remember, no steak n cheese or peppered steak like now
Bruce Keddie
I wonder when that photo was taken? My guess is very pre World War II. My memory of around 1960 is of a butchers shop on the Marlborough St side and taking part in small bore (.22) rifle shooting downstairs in a very well set up rifle range.
Carolyn Luck
Dudley lived in Milton Road, in his front garden he had a pond with a lot of Goldfish.
Phyll Leitch worked for Dudley at the shop for many years.
Rathbuns Hall was a great hall and used a lot.
Deborah Sweetman
I not sure but I think there used to be a hall upstairs. Went to a play once with my mother.
Anne McMillan Miller
We lived in 1 of the flats upstairs in the late 60s .
Vern Pattinson
Remember getting my ice bun and pie from Dudley in my high school days there
Rosslyn Weaver
I don't remember this shop, lived at other end of block. It was the newer grocery shop with milk bar at High /st side then butchers at Marlborough St side & I think a drapery shop as well. There was also a library next to milk bar. The hall was either upside or behind shops.
Donna Mackett
Love all these old local photos, our history and what Greymouth looked like back then. I remember the beautiful old mansions near the old Intermediate school
Priyani de Silva-Currie
Rosemary Dennis
Les Holmes Germanicus
It was a race across the road at High School to get a sixpence pie at lunchtime. Old Dud used to get a bit flustered at the rush of hungry kids. No school canteens in those days.
Kenneth John Dalzell
Dud had bombs or toppas as he couldn't work out if was making a profit or loss on a scoop of icecream.
Kenneth John Dalzell
Upstairs had a shooting gallery and we used 22 cal bullets at the round targets.
Neil Burrell
When did building get pulled down?
Murray Hay
Remember it well!
It was a great old shop, Dudley was a legend!
A workmate of mine got a milkshake from Dudley,
Couldn’t figure out why he couldn’t suck it through the straw till he found the blowfly
Heather Newby
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I remember Dudley... used to sell booze to us high school kids...sherry.
Brian J Gilberthorpe
Knew it in the 1940s and early 1950s
Stephen Hudson
In the 50s/60s there was a hall/theatre upstairs ... The Repertory Society used it for their readings
Ann Walton
Remember going there with grandma..I would have been 4 or 5..
Tania Gibson
My mother in law had the Hideaway, we have some of those left over matches somewhere and Lee Gibson Haircourt matches.
Marie Harrington
Worked there Nancy was a great boss.!
Peter Guenole
My Grandmother worked there
Helen Brennan
Worked at Bunt & Co we used to go everyday Mrs Garrod worked for Marianne
Lovely happy place
Valerie Bright
Ian Bright bought The Hideaway from Marianne and owned it for 4 years.
Jo Evans
Been to the hideaway. Great cafe.
Neroli Liddell
Went there a lot growing up on the coast
Vern Pattinson
New it well
Rebekah Fairhurst Geer
Loved it, the store and him. He always had time for a natter, used to go there with a note from my dad to get Dads rothmans and flagon filled, would have been about 9 or 10yrs old. Wouldn’t happen today, but the world was a nicer place in the 60’s and 70’s, the neighbours would look out for each other, the kids would all play together, everyone walked or biked, everyone had a garden. Simpler. I miss that.
Robert Fay Lemon Griffin
Sold the best pies
Phillip Bone
Had the fireworks crackers too .
Suzanne Hall
Really Miss Old Times ?
Paddy Naughton
A hall upstairs. I lived in Greymouth in 1950s.My dad Richard Lawson was music teacher at the high school.
Hellen Morris
Used to go into that shop on Sunday mornings on our way to church and change sixpence into two thruppenny bits,one was spent on lollies and the other went into the church plate.He used to call us the thruppenny girls ?
Pete Muir
The Repertory Society put on shows in the hall upstairs
Debbie Ansett
I worked there when it was High Street 4Square.
Murray Saunders
And his Green delivery van? Maybe an Austin with side sliding doors.
I was at high school and lived not far (Palmerston st)
Anyway I won’t throw anyone under the bus but he sold us boys our 2$ bottles of port.
Friday nights oh my….
Barry Warnes prolly still can’t drink the stuff…
Deborah Sweetman
I'm sure there was a hall upstairs as I went to a play up there with my mum.
Sarah Penrose
I remember Snowy Huttons funeral
Jill Smith
Yes I went to a play with my Mum upstairs too. A great shop popular with kids from high school. Old Dudley Rathbun, always in a white coat.
Karen Potter
Remember that place
Jeanette Sands
Hostel kids loved this store.
Laurie Anisy
I lived just a few houses down it.Was pulled down around 1985 to make way for New World.Dudley Rathbun was way ahead of his time with a grocery department a butcher shop a wine department and a milk bar.
William Mcdonald
Rember it well
Noel Clark
Lunch time milkshakes 1961
Heather Newby
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Dudley was a character!
PJ Spence
In the 60's - lived around the corner in Shakespeare St - for awhile it was a nightly routine to call in and buy some Pixie Caramel bars (much bigger than today's versions) - had to knock that on the head, as they were making my trousers too tight?
Josephine Rathbun
Francis Rathbun
Bruce Keddie
There was a small bore rifle range towards the rear, downstairs.
C May L'Huillier
Rathbun store was most popular place for High School Hostal borders mid 1940s to spend our sixpence. Oh yes we got lollies or double header icecream. Great memories.
I'm now 93 wonder if any of those kids still about.
Les Holmes Germanicus
I would sprint over the road and into the shop with sixpence for a pie.
Rose Henham
We used to go there for opossum pie..That what we called them.Must have been good kept going back.
Sheila Dixon
Well remember the creaming sodas served in long glass dishes and your choice of fizzy drink poured over ice cream!
Stephen Hudson
My first appearance on stage was with the Rep at Rathbun's Hall upstairs ... I was 13 and playing my mother's 13 year old son ... A role I was born to play . Ian Watkin was also involved
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby This shop was opposite the High school and the kids used to buy sweets from this shop after school... and pies at lunchtime
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Glenda Bishop
Glenda Bishop It became the 4 square and was where the pizza shop is now, across from the petrol station?
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Mark Wagenaar
Mark Wagenaar it waz on the new world site i think if it the rite building
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Sue Scott
Sue Scott used to have good pies, before the high school got a canteen
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Glenda Bishop
Glenda Bishop I think the high school got rid of the canteen when I was in the 3rd form. So yeah, lunch came from over the road. What years were you at Grey High Sue?
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Sue Scott
Sue Scott it only came there when I was in the fifth form so it didn't last long then did it
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Glenda Bishop
Glenda Bishop Haha, just realised. I went through Blaketown - Grey High with Russell.
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby Yes Mark Wagenaar I think it was on the New World site.
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Glenda Bishop
Glenda Bishop in the corner of the new world car park are a couple of shops, 1 being pizza. That's where this was
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Janet Leeks
Janet Leeks I remember Rathburns from my highschool days.
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Karen Bahn
Karen Bahn Blast from the past!!!
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby I used to get Moro bars and Regina toffee tablets from Rathbuns
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Roya Boustridge
Roya Boustridge Remember those coloured windows on the top well.
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Stephen Roberts
Stephen Roberts Dudley was a real character
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Maye Dunn
Maye Dunn Loved this shop..
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Sharron Wright
Sharron Wright It had a hall in the back part of the building
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Stephen Roberts
Stephen Roberts Yeah and a flat upstairs
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby really Sharron Wright ? I didn`t know it had a hall at the back.. how interesting
June 5, 2014 at 4:26pm · Like
Heather Newby
Heather Newby I can see it in my mind`s eye right now.. it was quite big inside the shop.. with the counter along the left hand side.. there were a lot of lollies and sweets there to choose from.Does anyone know when it was demolished? probably when those new shops were built there.
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Stephen Roberts
Stephen Roberts Interestingly enough Dudley had a seriously cool house.Very art deco.Must of cost a fortune back in the day
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Les Holmes Germanicus
Les Holmes Germanicus Just think... this is now Dominos carpark.
June 5, 2014 at 6:04pm · Like · 1
Cyril Hector
Cyril Hector Runniest pies in the land...the meat always ended up in my paper bag!
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Les Holmes Germanicus
Les Holmes Germanicus He was a grumpy old prick, Dudley.
June 5, 2014 at 7:48pm · Unlike · 2
Tane Afoa
Tane Afoa that's where we bought all our lollies
June 5, 2014 at 9:41pm · Unlike · 1
Lee Williams
Lee Williams He would sell us Glenvale sherry even though we were in our Grey High uniforms! also I remember being in repertory plays pretty sure the hall was upstairs.
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Mark Wagenaar
Mark Wagenaar my mum knew a lady who lived above the shop in the early 70s ,olive mcmillian,we used 2 visit her alot untill it waz demolished 2 make way 4 new world
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby I vaguely remember the hall around the back.the whole building was sort if "shabby chic"
June 6, 2014 at 6:34am · Like
Suzanne Mcgeady The gun club used to be in the hall. The 22 range used to be in there.
June 13, 2014 at 7:50pm · Unlike · 2
Neil Martin
Neil Martin I worked there after school there was a butchers shop down the side a wine shop next door on the right and a ballroom upstairs
June 13, 2014 at 7:52pm · Unlike · 1
Neil Martin
Neil Martin Dud Rathbun had a large yacht stored out the back and also a motor bike frame that took an austin 7 engine built by Cyril Hector or Cyril Shirley im not sure.
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Neil Martin
Neil Martin he wouldnt part with it
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Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre I can remember a motor bike with a car engine. A silvery homemade looking thing
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Neil Martin
Neil Martin If a wasp came into the shop Dud would arm himself with about 6 cans of fly spray and give a squirt out of each then put them all back on the shelf
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Neil Martin
Neil Martin I think there was two built someone like Doug Innes would remember
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Margaret E Sadler
Margaret E Sadler Cyril Hector, Runanga .had a Austin Seven Car engine installed in his 1934 OEC Motorcycle had a duplex steering arrangement.
June 13, 2014 at 8:11pm · Unlike · 2
Neil Martin
Neil Martin can you remember who had the other?
June 13, 2014 at 8:12pm · Like
Brenda Brown
Brenda Brown RATHBUNS HALL AT REAR LATER ON .
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Margaret E Sadler
Margaret E Sadler Sorry no. Steve Prince might know..
June 13, 2014 at 8:28pm · Unlike · 1
Neil Martin
Neil Martin Dud used to make his lunch by undoing the wax paper on the end of the Shannon and Glenns bread and take a slice out of a few loaves then tape up the end next he would get a scrapping of butter off of a few LB of butter then bash the end on the counter to hide the evidence.
June 13, 2014 at 8:33pm · Unlike · 3
Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre Arkwright come to mind
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Neil Martin
Neil Martin He also had a slug gun under the counter to shoot at any dogs that happened to stray through the doors the gun was so knackered he used to slobber all over the slugs to get a better seal.The dog normally just gave a slight lurch and run off I dont think the slugs penetrated
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Margaret E Sadler
Margaret E Sadler Rathburns store. High St.Greymouth
October 4, 2014 at 9:28pm
Mick Bernadette O'Donnell
Mick Bernadette O'Donnell Remember when eggs started coming in cartons,Dudley would repack them in brown paper bags . His mathematics being 10 to the dozen
October 4, 2014 at 11:21pm · Like · 2
Heather Newby
Heather Newby Dudley was grumpy
October 4, 2014 at 11:26pm · Like
Brendon Barrow
Brendon Barrow Was this demolished and rebuilt as a single story shop?
October 5, 2014 at 3:38pm · Like
Wayne Leckie
Wayne Leckie that had a butcher shop down the side,and i think he put a bottle store in to.and yes he could be grumpy to lol
October 5, 2014 at 8:03pm · Like
Neil Martin
Neil Martin Yes Wayne Leckie the bottle / wine shop was on the town side of the High street frontage. Dance Hall upstairs and a butchers shop down the side (Marlborough St) altho when I worked there it was no longer in operation
October 5, 2014 at 8:06pm · Like · 1
Neil Martin
Neil Martin He had some stock then that had been there for god knows how long .Cans of Crayfish from South Africa and bottles of Dr Stranges? Indian Root pills to young then to test them out besides cant recall many Indians about back then .
October 5, 2014 at 8:10pm · Like · 1
Wayne Leckie
Wayne Leckie When you think about he was away ahead of time putting that bottle store in Neil Martin
October 5, 2014 at 8:11pm · Like
Neil Martin
Neil Martin Always looking for a way to make a dollar was old Dud
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Robert Fay Lemon Griffin
Robert Fay Lemon Griffin they used to sell the best pies
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby Ohhh.. i just remembered Rathbuns pies!!
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Kathy Fazio
Kathy Fazio Yes loved buying my lunch on Mondays when I was at HIgh School :)
Dave Howell Yes Dudley Rathurn used to run it and he also sold alcohol and as a 16 year old it was the easiest place to buy it, it was a very old shop inside and the floor was uneven and creaked everywhere
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby I remember that too,, wasnt it sherry??
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby I can still remember the layout of the shop
Linzi Woods
Linzi Woods And they were so cheap... aniseed wheels - Caramel Tabs & Cinnamon Bars MMMM
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Mavis McGuire
Mavis McGuire I remember my mother bying the
Carolyn Luck Phyl cinnamon bars.
Carolyn LuckLeitch worked for Dudley Rathbun for many years.
At the back of the shop was Rathbuns Hall, a very good facility and used a lot.
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Tess Cochrane
Tess Cochrane Anita Thompson
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Rebekah Fairhurst Geer
Rebekah Fairhurst Geer Used to buy dads sherry and rothmans cigarettes, then with the change buy myself lollies, imagine being able to buy your parents alcohol, I was very young!!
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby When i was primary school age i used to buy fags for a neighbor from the shop in Blaketown
Karen Potter We used to get chocolate there and it sometimes had weevil in it.
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Ray Vincent
Ray Vincent remember Dudleys van. an old fordson?? Indoor rifle club was upstairs at the back.
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Joy Baker
Joy Baker What an amazing old building.
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Karen Potter
Karen Potter Think his van was red and cream
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Sue Vaukins
Sue Vaukins The shop I remember the most in town was "Becks" I loved going in there.
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Tania Tones Lawrence
Tania Tones Lawrence Becks emporium? Good shop. The hard icing easter eggs were sometimes in there a bit long ha ha ha ha!
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Sue Vaukins
Sue Vaukins Yes loved those eggs. They were a bit hard sometimes. I've had a go at making them
Robin Whyte I can remember the shop when i was a young boy going in to buy fireworks
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Phil Millar
Phil Millar Wow,how are your teeth now?
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Jamile David Whyte
Jamile David Whyte You are showing your age old Robin Whyte
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Jan Fletcher
Jan Fletcher
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Jan Fletcher
Jan Fletcher Greymouth Repertory was based in the hall, my first experience of "treading the boards" was there as a nun in Sister Josephine
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby Don Hutton
Sheryl O'Leary We used to buy our under aged alcohol there as student nurses when I lived in the nurses home. Cheap too. lol
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David Barry Grant
David Barry Grant I lived next door when at GTHS. Shaws owned house b4 us. At one time think it was a nurses home, as had very large bedrooms with open fireplaces in each room.
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Karen Potter
Karen Potter David grant is Betsy your sister.
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Sheryl Iraia I was a visitor there. Remember the smell an alsortment of food etc
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Justine Gekas
Justine Gekas Our family were customers of Dudley Rathbun, remember that shop well.
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Vernon Pattinson
Vernon Pattinson remember it well i got my lunce there meny a time
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Karen Potter
Karen Potter You are a sweet Tom
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Tom Shine
Tom Shine like my comment you know its true!
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Tom Shine
Tom Shine im glad you think so Karen Potter :)
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Colleen O'Neill Loved the ice cream there when I was at High School 65 yrs ago Wow didn't realise it was so long ago
Jakh Heremia when I started High School 1971, was the shop all the cool kids went to - they sold alcohol (wine) too.
Heather Newby half g`s of sherry
Jakh Heremia Heather Newby lol. never got the chance to go in there - me being a country kid (Camerons),
Heather Newby Jakh Heremia neither was I... i was never cool..but i saw him selling sherry... and it was common knowlege.
Les Holmes Germanicus Who can forget the lunchtime pie sprint and old Dud Rathbun?
Heather Newby I used to buy Snifters from there
Wayne Leckie great pies
Les Holmes Germanicus I've let slip I only went to
Maureen Tones Dudley Rathbun had a butcher shop at the back of his High St. Shop that my dad was the manager .1950's
Wayne Leckie Barry Rutledge ran that butcher shop
Carolyn Luck Rathbun's Hall at the back of the shop was a great hall and venue. It was used a lot.
Carolyn Luck Phyll Leitch worked for Dudley Rathbun for many years.
Linda Hughes Hall above used by dramatic society and miniature rifle association among other things.
Trish Briggs Bought a bit of alcohol from there when we lived in the nurses home.
Heather Newby Trish Briggs sherry in half gallon bottles
Trish Briggs Blackberry Nip Heather Newby. Not sherry for me
Les Holmes Germanicus It's Domino's carpark now.
Barry Kennedy Screwdriver? Gimlet? BlackBerry Nip?
Sharon Gibb-Davies Remember Dud Rathbun he lived across the road from my Great Grandmother and his daughter Stephanie was a neighbour to my great Aunty in Marlborough St. I always looked forward to getting his fresh Sunday bread and cream doughnuts back then and always gave me a packet of lollies
Stephen Roberts Dudley i remember him well a real character
Kevin O'Sullivan Dudley's grocery store and ice cream soda and milk bar
Kevin O'Sullivan Try again. Dudley's "Emporium" was an amasing store. I remember learning how to fix a soda fountain there. Upstairs in the Hall also to Smallbore rifle club target shooting on a week night.
Murray Hay I remember Taddy McSorley getting a milk shake off Dudley, he couldn't suck it up through the straw cos there was a fly in the straw , the good old days, lol
Graham Hutton Now there is a major memory in many was thank you so much....
Selwyn Leitch There was also a hall on the ground floor. It was used on Sunday Mornings as a Presbyterian Sunday school. I recall, walking home from Sunday school, past Rathbun's store seeing a cat sitting on a spurge cake in the window.
Trish Briggs Think the Repertory Theatre used the hall for their shows!
Vaughan Smith Good place to buy fireworks , redjacks, tomthums, thunderbolts, sometimes none of them went boom, duds,,, used to go the shop with small coins and buy sweets
Josephine Rathbun Amy Jensen before my time lol i thibk dads got pics of the inside somewhere
Ray Vincent Used to drive the flat nose fordson? Van around.
Bazza Morland Correct , cream with red guards .
Debbie Ansett High Street 4 Square. I worked there
Evan Grooby I still have the Fordson van from there
Anne Miller Mcmillan My mum Olive beynon mcmillan lived upstairs in one of 2 flats above dudlys shop with my siblings .
Wayne Searle My Grandmother Kitty Searle also had a flat there, she was the Housekeeper at the Hospital
Carolyn Graham Yes Annie - remember it well. Can you recall us going out on the roof to sunbathe and invariably Dudley would hear us and go off his rocker. Didn't stop us though.
Ave Muir Did my dancing exams upstairs about 1959
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Anne Miller Mcmillan Yip i remember. We used to climb thru kitchen window. Dont think much stopped us sis with me being ring leaderWendy Perkins
That beats vaping around the corner.
Sue Simpson
Some pupils crushed the metal milkshake containers. Dudley asked us to identify them - they had school uniform on, were average height, mousy hair, no memorable features... sorry Dudley, we can't help.
Gary Leech
Can’t possibly comment
Except to say we all survived or thrived from our WC upbringing.
Anne Mcmillan Miller
Mum and us kids lived in Rathbuns flats above the shop in early 60s A mrs Searle who was my boss at grey hospital cleaning wards lived in the other flat next to ours
Mark Biddulph
Spewed on black berry nip he sold me
Craig Norman
Mark Biddulph I don't think even Superman could hold that sh-t down.
Lee Williams
Yep, Dud didn’t seem to notice the school uniform . Performed in the theatre upstairs.
Vern Pattinson
Went and got my lunch from there when I was in high school 65 66
Rod Berry
School year 1956, i had my first kiss with Doreen Dennis along side of that building. I was awkwardly a shy learner. Sorry Doreen, wherever you are these days.
Miles Reay
As a prefect at GTHS in 1959, I was given the job of collecting the pie orders from the classrooms, then going over to Rathbuns at lunch time to collect then. Nicest pies I every had until I moved to Carterton.
Brian Steele
I remember where Rathburns shop was but never as a 2 stories builďing
Brian Steele
Is that some relation of Frankie's who owned the shop
Rhondabob Bennett
Our family lived at 10 Marlborough Street and Mum used to regularly get me to “hop over to Dudley’s “ and get something she needed. He would sell anything he had in stock with disregard to the regulations about products,opening hours. Weekend sales very rarely had the same prices as Monday to Friday. A genuine legend !!!
Christine Banks
Communist meetings were held in a room upstairs in the mid to late 1960s.
Sandra Rooney
Had flats above and a hall. Remember it from the early 60s
Eddie Parsons
We had a lot of fun around there,Dudley had one of the first tv s in the side room and all us kids used to watch it there, had a good set up there,I often wonder what happened to his daughter Stephanie, her grandparents lived across the road from us in high street
Pam Englefield-Absolum
No new architectural building, not even Dominoes could replace Rathbun’s store. History gone and left in memories and photos.
Murray Hay
Remember it well!
It was a great old shop, Dudley was a legend!
A workmate of mine got a milkshake from Dudley,
Couldn’t figure out why he couldn’t suck it through the straw till he found the blowfly
Richard Case
those were the days a lot of fun
Janine Halls
I remember Rathbuns!
Loretta Donnelly
Mum had cousins who were Rathbuns. I don’t remember if they were related on the Weir side or the Aynsleys.
PJ Spence
In the 60's - we lived a short walk from the store - too often we would call in to stock up on confectionery for the night - until we realised it was making our clothes shrink?
Dee Foxcroft
Rebekah Fairhurst Geer,
Ack Shell, that’s where we used to buy our bottles of wine when we were 13 & 14
Robert Mathewson
Root beer ,2.5% and drink it while at school and the old house over the road where the mobil is ,party house.
Heather Newby
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I remember Dudley... used to sell booze to us high school kids...sherry.
Martin Burt
Greymouth Repertory society used the hall for plays and montly play readings
Josephine Rathbun
Francis Rathbun
Alan Quinn
Sweetmans and Rathbones.. we called the Sweeter peteman and didley ratbum.
Rob Lunn
What about the under age spirit supply Vern
Jane Georgeson
Dudley was a lovely old guy, loved his old van he had.
Trish Rennie
Remember it well….
Gary Mc Millan
Dudleys favourite saying was how much did you give me will
Murray Webber
Used to buy pies "maggot sacks" as we called them when I was at High School mid 60s, only mince as I remember, no steak n cheese or peppered steak like now
Bruce Keddie
I wonder when that photo was taken? My guess is very pre World War II. My memory of around 1960 is of a butchers shop on the Marlborough St side and taking part in small bore (.22) rifle shooting downstairs in a very well set up rifle range.
Carolyn Luck
Dudley lived in Milton Road, in his front garden he had a pond with a lot of Goldfish.
Phyll Leitch worked for Dudley at the shop for many years.
Rathbuns Hall was a great hall and used a lot.
Deborah Sweetman
I not sure but I think there used to be a hall upstairs. Went to a play once with my mother.
Anne McMillan Miller
We lived in 1 of the flats upstairs in the late 60s .
Vern Pattinson
Remember getting my ice bun and pie from Dudley in my high school days there
Rosslyn Weaver
I don't remember this shop, lived at other end of block. It was the newer grocery shop with milk bar at High /st side then butchers at Marlborough St side & I think a drapery shop as well. There was also a library next to milk bar. The hall was either upside or behind shops.
Donna Mackett
Love all these old local photos, our history and what Greymouth looked like back then. I remember the beautiful old mansions near the old Intermediate school
Priyani de Silva-Currie
Rosemary Dennis
Les Holmes Germanicus
It was a race across the road at High School to get a sixpence pie at lunchtime. Old Dud used to get a bit flustered at the rush of hungry kids. No school canteens in those days.
Kenneth John Dalzell
Dud had bombs or toppas as he couldn't work out if was making a profit or loss on a scoop of icecream.
Kenneth John Dalzell
Upstairs had a shooting gallery and we used 22 cal bullets at the round targets.
Neil Burrell
When did building get pulled down?
Murray Hay
Remember it well!
It was a great old shop, Dudley was a legend!
A workmate of mine got a milkshake from Dudley,
Couldn’t figure out why he couldn’t suck it through the straw till he found the blowfly
Heather Newby
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I remember Dudley... used to sell booze to us high school kids...sherry.
Brian J Gilberthorpe
Knew it in the 1940s and early 1950s
Stephen Hudson
In the 50s/60s there was a hall/theatre upstairs ... The Repertory Society used it for their readings
Ann Walton
Remember going there with grandma..I would have been 4 or 5..
Tania Gibson
My mother in law had the Hideaway, we have some of those left over matches somewhere and Lee Gibson Haircourt matches.
Marie Harrington
Worked there Nancy was a great boss.!
Peter Guenole
My Grandmother worked there
Helen Brennan
Worked at Bunt & Co we used to go everyday Mrs Garrod worked for Marianne
Lovely happy place
Valerie Bright
Ian Bright bought The Hideaway from Marianne and owned it for 4 years.
Jo Evans
Been to the hideaway. Great cafe.
Neroli Liddell
Went there a lot growing up on the coast
Vern Pattinson
New it well
Rebekah Fairhurst Geer
Loved it, the store and him. He always had time for a natter, used to go there with a note from my dad to get Dads rothmans and flagon filled, would have been about 9 or 10yrs old. Wouldn’t happen today, but the world was a nicer place in the 60’s and 70’s, the neighbours would look out for each other, the kids would all play together, everyone walked or biked, everyone had a garden. Simpler. I miss that.
Robert Fay Lemon Griffin
Sold the best pies
Phillip Bone
Had the fireworks crackers too .
Suzanne Hall
Really Miss Old Times ?
Paddy Naughton
A hall upstairs. I lived in Greymouth in 1950s.My dad Richard Lawson was music teacher at the high school.
Hellen Morris
Used to go into that shop on Sunday mornings on our way to church and change sixpence into two thruppenny bits,one was spent on lollies and the other went into the church plate.He used to call us the thruppenny girls ?
Pete Muir
The Repertory Society put on shows in the hall upstairs
Debbie Ansett
I worked there when it was High Street 4Square.
Murray Saunders
And his Green delivery van? Maybe an Austin with side sliding doors.
I was at high school and lived not far (Palmerston st)
Anyway I won’t throw anyone under the bus but he sold us boys our 2$ bottles of port.
Friday nights oh my….
Barry Warnes prolly still can’t drink the stuff…
Deborah Sweetman
I'm sure there was a hall upstairs as I went to a play up there with my mum.
Sarah Penrose
I remember Snowy Huttons funeral
Jill Smith
Yes I went to a play with my Mum upstairs too. A great shop popular with kids from high school. Old Dudley Rathbun, always in a white coat.
Karen Potter
Remember that place
Jeanette Sands
Hostel kids loved this store.
Laurie Anisy
I lived just a few houses down it.Was pulled down around 1985 to make way for New World.Dudley Rathbun was way ahead of his time with a grocery department a butcher shop a wine department and a milk bar.
William Mcdonald
Rember it well
Noel Clark
Lunch time milkshakes 1961
Heather Newby
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Dudley was a character!
PJ Spence
In the 60's - lived around the corner in Shakespeare St - for awhile it was a nightly routine to call in and buy some Pixie Caramel bars (much bigger than today's versions) - had to knock that on the head, as they were making my trousers too tight?
Josephine Rathbun
Francis Rathbun
Bruce Keddie
There was a small bore rifle range towards the rear, downstairs.
C May L'Huillier
Rathbun store was most popular place for High School Hostal borders mid 1940s to spend our sixpence. Oh yes we got lollies or double header icecream. Great memories.
I'm now 93 wonder if any of those kids still about.
Les Holmes Germanicus
I would sprint over the road and into the shop with sixpence for a pie.
Rose Henham
We used to go there for opossum pie..That what we called them.Must have been good kept going back.
Sheila Dixon
Well remember the creaming sodas served in long glass dishes and your choice of fizzy drink poured over ice cream!
Stephen Hudson
My first appearance on stage was with the Rep at Rathbun's Hall upstairs ... I was 13 and playing my mother's 13 year old son ... A role I was born to play . Ian Watkin was also involved
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