Thread: The good old days ?

Originally Posted by Pengy

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Smythes Hut....Mangoahane Station on the edge of the Mangoahane Plateau NW Ruahines...My Second home...Last there in May 2014.

I am going to study the rest of the photos as some of the faces are familiar. With your permission I will over time put these picture in the deercullers magazine. We often put up pictures like this and ask why where and who. You can bet that some of our members are present in these photos. Can you find out any more history on these photos Pengy. I just checked our membership list and Roy in not a member, at this time anyway.

Originally Posted by Scribe

Can you give us a bit of history on how you acquired these photos Pengy.

His first post of this thread mate

Originally Posted by Gibo

His first post of this thread mate

Thanks Gibo, I had read the first post but I got so carried away with the photos that I forgot what I had read. Corrected now.

These photos are a snapshot of a great life led 'at least the early part of a great life led'.

Rifles present in one photo look like a BSA hunter and a cut down 303 which dates the photo to around early 60s 'Probably'. Though I see it is in the period when skins were taken so it may be earlier so I guess that doesn't help.

The country certainly could be the Ureweras not NW Ruahines where the hut photo came from. Any Photos of rolling tussock hills Pengy.

Good work Pengy.

Cool

The album I have access to has a shed load of much older black and whites, but unfortunately they don't want to come out un damaged. I will try and find a way of scanning the entire page(s)

Originally Posted by Pengy

The album I have access to has a shed load of much older black and whites, but unfortunately they don't want to come out un damaged. I will try and find a way of scanning the entire page(s)

Take photos of them man!! Scanning is so last millenium

Some amazing pictures Pengy - it would be interesting to know the date of some of them - the E series plates on the Landy were issued between 1968 and 1970 so likely it was after that
I started hunting deer up the Tokomaru River just south of Palmy Nth in 64 - Henry Irwin lived in an old farm/lumber hut up the back of the Ryder farm - he was a bit of a recluse following issues around WW2
Henry earned his living from skins and he knew the Toko River catchment like the back of his hands - he was always happy to tell us young guys where he had done a burn and planted rye/clover seed
Must have been a hard case going to to Palmy on a Newmans bus to sell his skins and purchase supplies
I have some wonderful memories of Henry - spent hours talking to him and he came out with us for a few hunts - this pic round 1967 - he may have been in his fifties -

Damn. Pages are too large for my scanner.
Sorry there are no captions, but I don't have any info on these apart from the fact come from the memories of 80 yr old Roy Bernhard

Outstanding pics..back when men were real men. Any more to come pengy?

Awesome stuff Pengy. Awesome to see old photos like these

I still have to upload the photos though.

Originally Posted by Pengy

I still have to upload the photos though.

No smart phone? Upload straight on here?