By: Lizzie Errington9th Jul 2026 2:36PMThe following comment was shared on a post on the Upper Hutt Heritage Facebook page on July 7, 2026:

Trevor Salisbury - "As kids my cousin and I used to nick a bucket of eggs for an egg fight. Great fun until Grandpa pocked his head around the corner!"

Mary Sittauer - "I recall going with my Nana to Salisburys to collect one day old chicks ( in box with small air holes) & returning home with them cheeping while on the local bus back to Silverstream."

Beverley Keating - "When we went to live in hall grove at the bottom of gibbons road in 1961, behind our house there was a huge poultry farm.going right back to the street going from Frazer street up to, well sorry I can’t remember that one. It was there for quite a while and then the chickens got taken away, and later it all was turned into housing. Bonnie Glenn and those streets were formed. Wonder if that was a part of Salisbury’s excess chickens."

Mary Howan - "Beverley Keating It probably was. The farm went all way to the river."

By: John Brown7th Jan 2022 9:27AMMy Father Reg Brown worked here at the Salisbury Poultry Farm. in the mid 50s. I am trying to contact anyone he worked with or who knew him.
Can Tony Folland contact me please on my email grumpr@xtra.co.nz.

By: UHCL Admin3rd Jan 2018 10:06AMThe following recollection was sent to us via email enquiry through Recollect

Spent many happy years on this farm early to mid '50's Washing eggs for one shilling an hour. Collecting eggs driving tractors the old Fargo truck cleaning sheds plucking chooks Those were the days.
Our family built a house on the corner of George and Henry St's in 1947

Tony Folland