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.