Hawera Part 3

lol my brother sis & I all worked for Greasy George at the pie cart..we were going to rename it the Barley piecart..lol..the whitebait fritters were THE best!..spent many hours in Wards too ..mum used to work there as well as in the furniture shop by the PO..and the Milk bar..anyone remember that?..

God.. Reading the previous messages brought up some memories! The London Pie Shop made the best donuts haha. I see so much happening business wise in Hawera lately, it's really good. Each time I go into town I see something being built or developed

born & bred in Hawera. Left in 1966 to see the world. Dad worked for a couple of years at the milk treatment station in town before it closed down & was moved. Then he went to the gardening shop at the Farmers Co-op. Mum worked at Thompsons music centre for a while. Who remembers the Easy built & furniture centre near Pattersons. I worked there & also the NDA before leaving town. Loved the London pie shop too.

I have been up since early hours and its not even cold. Its good remembering all these stories. Do you remember the coal store over on scott street, the dairy that the bourkes had opp the old opera house, then there was the dairy on the corner of Wilson Street, the tyre place opp the old Toms Supermarket gosh i could go on and on, you can remember so much of this place, plus all the industrial area in glover road and Pak n Save in Princes that will be opening in Nov.

lived there for almost a year back in 69. Street i lived in was called fantham street i think, it had houses up one side and hen houses all along the other. It was a miles walk to school with no footpaths, shops were miles away and i really didnt like it. Would be neat to return now and see how much its changed.(if any)

u will be surprised elvis there are new houses right along there now, u wont know the place, it looks great, Hawera has changed in so many ways, u need to come back and see, no cornishes now, we have a town square, there is so much changed,

remeber Mr Sole was the coal man - had a son named Warren. He used to lug bags of coal and dump it in the yard. Poor Mum used to lug it into the house. We never even thought to offer... kids.. no concept of all about the hard lives our parents were going through

Mrs did some teaching also. She has passed now - but Willie lives by the beach in Onaro

Is your dads name Andrew. My parents lived on Wilson Street & I remember the Judds half way up the High street end on the right (heading to High st)

I am looking at an old photo of Hawera,taken about 50 to 60 years ago. The White Hart Hotel is in the front and further up the street is the War Memorial Arch.The Mt looks awesome in the background.

hey greenie that is so good when u can see our mountain, it would of been Mt Egmont back then lol. Yea we had the White Hart, The Commercial and The Egmont on each corner plus the National Bank. These old memories are great, especially when time ticks on and u forget what was in some of these places, where the commercial was is Harris Taylor, a coffee lounge and creative craft. Keep these msgs coming

Yep that would be right, Andrews little sister, LOL. Hey Andrew was my "best man" first time round, under the watertower. Do you know if Andrew is still with Elaine... Arrhh yes the 3 pub cross roads, had heaps of fun stumbling around those, tho was a hard walk down to union street when "doing" the rounds. Anyone remember "Tashkoff's" (spelling) fish & chip shop. Mum worked there & for the Bon-Ton for a while. Mmm Thompsons music store got a heap of my money in my youth, & the agony when milk went up to 4c bottle. Aarrhh to many years ago & some of it glad to be gone.

Was glad to see some peeps remember "uncle" georges piecart, ma worked there for years and us kids spent plenty of time out the back with uncle george

Trying to forget parts of Wilson street ;-(. . . LOL ooohhh goddddd, Tom edgecome,Rowle Lealand, the "boys" from the Wilson st ex milk treatment station, Gee's even one of my sisters brought a house top end of Wilson street in later years. LMAO, bugger the bike sheds at school, I had mrs Mails permission to hang out in some of the rooms up stairs at lunch times so I could play chest

The Dom Who remembers the days of the Dominion Hotel back in the 70s man it rocked, i worked there in the lounge bar when the Pipers were the owners, but sadly thats gone now and has made way for Pak n Save. Newton Kings has been replaced with Countdown, The Warehouse has gone where there were 3-4 houses, Hawera Auto Court moved over to Wilson Street so The Warehouse could have that land as well. Tuns Bakery has gone into the old TSB Bank.

Back in my day the Egmont hotel was the place we all went too. Owned by the Scanlons.

The Dominion Egmont and Commercial and the Royal and Central all gone.Only the White Hart and Railway left now.Still two at Normanby.

the furlong motor inni worked here the day it opened and boy did it rock, the freezing works went out on a one strike that day and they all came here, how convenient to have a strike that day hehehehe. i worked till 3.30am in the house bar and restaurant, then had work again at 10am. I was there for 3yrs, I worked the lounge bar as well and it used to rock as well, these were the days. Yes the central we used to go to the back bar of that and stay all hours as well. Remember when u drove straight thru the town, you would go from the presbyterian church down to the water tower and back up, luckily petrol wasnt a issue those days.

Yes the young guys used to cruise up and down the street frid nights, skiting to the girls.Just as well petrol was cheaper back then..Of cause they were all in their dads cars way back.No friday nights any more so dont know what they do..Hear a few boy racers so guess thats what they do

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