Recollections from various sources
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Comments: very interesting web site,I note 128 taieri rd was fosters boot maker.after them my father rowley padman was the shoe repairer there for many years until it closed, olive webster owned the dairy down a couple of doors , with alby roberts having the grocer shop on the corner. i also recall there was the ufs chemist over the road from dads shop. i remember dad used to stay open on friday night until 8.30pm and after that we would pick up tomatoes at tim wongs fruit shop on the way home.
Location: shetland street.
Hi Alan, I have just been reading thru the Kaikorai pages and admire all of the work you have undertaken. We used to live in Jellicoe Cres and shifted away in the mid 50's to Nth Otago. B.S.
Comments: alan, through old friends i have just found this wonderful site, and have sat for some time with my wife (who was born in the uk), showing her so much of the environs of my childhood. i went to kaikorai school from 1946 (primer 1) until 1953 (std 6). i also did my pa year there in 1962. i'm going to enjoy so much exploring and re-exploring the site.
Location: darfield
Hello Alan. What a great website.
I was in the same class as you . I was No 5 & you No 9. (In 1947 school photo).
I read your artical in the paper this morning about the Cable Cars , & your name rang a bell straight away. My Father Jeff Hall used to drive for the Trams & looking at those Photo's brought back old memories. My family will be very interested in looking at them. Just thought I would say hello , & nice to make the contact again after all these years.
Regards J.H.
This is brilliant stuff Alan.. wonderful photos and text.. fascinating to see that Hunter's grocery store (triangular) still stands at the intersection of Falcon St ,and where the old cable car line up through the cutting at the top of the hill.... you have done, and are doing good work for the future history of the district.
Regards J.P.
I have been pursuing my genealogy hobby for 17 years, exploring many web sites in the process. Your's would be amongst the most informative and easy to navigate that I have experienced. Congratulations!
My interests relate to my ancestors the GOODLETs, one of whom (Alexander) was a gripman for the Kaikori Tramway Company since 1908 and for many years until retirement about 1947.
C.S. Auckland
Hi Alan Quite by accident I came across your above website yesterday. I congratulate you on such a wonderful site. It must have taken you hours to put this together. I have wasted so much time this weekend looking at it but it was been so great to read all this history. H.L.
The Chums Club was threepence to join, & for that we received the badge, a seat near the front & the birthday wish. Didn't we think that so cool? I wonder what todays children would think of it! I know that my grandies wouldn`t be a bit impressed !The Sunbeams were part of a radio children's group led by Uncle someone; they used to sing on 4ZB Sunday mornings. - Avice
Fosters Shoe Shop Some information and a photograph kindly provided by Janet Bai (nee Foster).
CLUBS & STUFFGirl Guides and Brownies met in Roslyn Baptist church Taieri Rd. in the 1930s.
Don't know about the Boy Scouts, but they have their Clubrooms in that hall now I think.
SPORTS CLUBS
Kaikorai Swimming Club
Badminton Club
Bowling Club
Tennis Club
Rugby Club (Uncle Ted Bartlett belonged)
? was there a Cricket club???
I'm pretty positive there was at one time the Kaikorai Band that played in competitions, I think it combined with St.Kilda eventually.
Oh, and also there was Boys Brigade at KPC before Girls Life Brigade - Margaret H
Hi Alan,
Just discovered your wonderful site and found that we are overlapping in what we are doing. At present I have about 17 pages of text and photos which I have been putting together for family and friends. I will be able to help you out with photos and memories from an old uncle who recently died in his 90,s.
Regards, David Still - (see below)
The Coal yard and other stories contributed by David Still.
This story relates to the Kaikorai Valley Road area in the main with other little side bits. Around 17 of David's pages have now been added to this site.
Some Recollections contributed by John Park.
1. The construction of the Stuart Street Extension, 2. The Kaikorai Bugle Band and route marches, 3. Garfield Avenue. 4. Oysters.
The Ammunition Track and other cycle/motorcycle tracks - contributed by Ernie Scudamore.
From a recent e-mail....... original source unknown !
Aprons (I remember this sooo well & you might too!)
I don't think our kids know what an apron is.
The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.
It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.
From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.
When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.
And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.
Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.
Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.
From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.
In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.
When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.
It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that "old-time apron" that served so many purposes.
Send this to those who would know, and love the story about Grandma's aprons.
REMEMBER.........
Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool.
Her granddaughters set theirs on the kitchen counter to thaw.