 Village Bookshop, 1969. Copyright John B. Turner Can someone help locate these shops? My thinking: the building was probably somewhere on the east (sunny) side of Johnsonville Road. Although it can't be seen here, there is a reflection in the glass door of the dairy showing the vertical sign of the new (1969) Mobil service station, which is in its current location. This suggests the shops were somewhere across the road from it, or at least facing it.
(See Peter Gilberd's comment below - Bill Cutting Place, facing north, seems likely. John Turner's original photo caption read 'Dairy off Johnsonville Rd', which also fits with this.) The photographs appears in the exhibition 'A walk down Johnsonville Road - Photographs of Johnsonville from 1966-1969 by John B. Turner at Waitohi - the new Johnsonville Library and Community Hub - running from 14 December 2019 to mid-March 2020. If you would like to share your knowledge, stories or memories relating to these photos, please comment below.
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Peter Gilberd
21/12/2019 09:45:23 am
I have a strong recollection of a shop very much like the Village Bookshop being in Bill Cutting Place, on the southern (sunnier side), which would also explain the name of the dairy. Bill Cutting Place was longer then and led to Johnsonville Railway Station, which was moved south when the mall was developed. The weatherboarding of the building next to the butcher's building on the corner of Bill Cutting and Johnsonville Road, on an earlier photograph, looks similar, which is supporting evidence. And it might also tie in with the reflection of the Mobil Service Station.
Val Ferrel
29/3/2020 01:20:54 pm
I remember these shops really well.the bookshop was were my mother bought my first tricycle. If I remember rightly mrs Davidson from Phillip street worked there.
William C O'Donnell
1/4/2020 11:27:55 pm
De Ridders dairy in the '50's-'60's. Got our bread from them. Was not Bill Cutting Pl. then. Taxis at the end around the corner from the bookshop.
Pat McAllister
16/7/2022 08:02:09 pm
Lorraine and Wally DeRidder owned and ran the dairy. (they lived in Monawai Road). They had 4 children. John, Yvonne, Philip and Warren. Lorraine used to be up at around 3am each day, making all the pies and cakes etc sold in the dairy. It was very popular, especially on a Saturday night, when people would go in there to buy their 'Sports Post', and buy cakes and sponges etc (if there were any left) I would go down with my Dad, and would get an ice-cream.
Dale Murphy
25/5/2020 09:25:24 pm
The street was Frankmoore Ave at that time, my parents owned the Village Bookshop, Ray and Jean Hacche, Mum sold the wool in the shop too.Great time Leave a Reply. |
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