Category Archives: Palmerston

Jan22020

The Fort

Family, Family History, New Zealand, PalmerstonBy Bruce Lyman January 2, 2020 1 Comment

Recollections 7 The fort is probably something that looms larger and more perfect in memory than it was in fact. But even if it was half the establishment we think it was it remains something quite creative and even formidable. At least in the eyes of a kid.

Dec302019

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The Plan(tation)

Family, Family History, New Zealand, PalmerstonBy Bruce Lyman December 30, 2019 2 Comments

Recollections (6) So, while it’s a small town with only Puketapu (Pookie) to geographically mark it for the passing traveller, there were any number of points that anchored my boyhood view of the place. The curved platform of the railway station for a start. That always entranced me, as did the rails, the rolling stock,…

Dec292019

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Puketapu

Family, Family History, Palmerston, PuketapuBy Bruce Lyman December 29, 2019 2 Comments

Recollections 5 Palmerston has a glow about it which comes from lots of memory burnishing, especially polishing that has as its base compound a happy childhood. In truth it’s a tiny country town for which, to those who are not residents, there is little or nothing to commend it. And of course that is the…

Dec282019

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A Yellow Bug

Dunedin, Family, Family History, Palmerston, VWBy Bruce Lyman December 28, 2019 2 Comments

Recollection 3: A Yellow German Bug I was not in Dunedin very long. After five years, a yellow German VW beetle clattered me from there and transported me north. Twenty years after we beat them in a global stoush I was being given a lift in one of their cars. We were buying Japanese cars…