By: Don McLeod8th May 2018 8:31PMThe 'Greek Feller' was Ari Foundoulakis, formerly of Clouston Park Fisheries; he was 58 when he died.

By: UHCL Admin21st Jul 2017 8:50AMThe following comments were left on our Heritage Facebook Page on the 20 July 2017

PatriciaandSteve Reid " I was the postmistress there ffrom August 1980 to January 1988 when it was closed . Loved the job and loved all my customers"

Anička Cross "Are the shops still there? Would get fish & chips on Friday nights with my Nana."
Kelly PM "only the takeaway shops, I think the dairy closed last yr."
Anička Cross "No way. It was a bustling place. Hairdressers, dairy, takeaways, post office & something else too I think."
Shona Tahau "Butcher"
Janine Campbell Pugh "And a bakery"

Tamati Matekino-Louis" i remember it had a video shop, butcher, ravins dairy, bakery, fish &chips and hairdresser"

Kim Allmand "Certainly not like that now - just fish & chip shop and it all looks like a ghetto with graffiti everywhere and total mess. Lovely f&c shop though!!"

Shona Tahau "My dad worked at Brown Owl at the butchers. Lakis fish and chips the best, I have never had any better since."

Anne-marie Jury "1 fish & chip shop is all that is there now"

Doug Jury "Use to be a busy shopping centre back then"

Sharon Woodward "They had the best fish and chips for a while, way back "

Elaine Samson "Spent four years of my life there 12 hours a day , 9 days off in four years and then only when sick. Thats our car out the front of the Four Square."

Phillip Wilkie "When I was a kid I would walk from bridge road to Te Marua school and use the shop as a short cut to school under the road tunnel , And buy candy and fish. & chips from that Greek fuller and they were good to believe me , I here he died from a heart attack and it's never been the same again really, Shame it was a go ahead place , crazy how things change aye"

Seonaid Theresa Harvey Lewis "In the 70s we used to get lunch from the bakery and have a picnic, during the school holidays."

Steve Thorpe "The fish and chip shop in this block was the best ever, used to get a feed here most Sundays after getting out of the river at the Canoe club down the road a bit to warm up :D"