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Wednesday 29 January 2025
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A little red house of memories ANNE HARDIE Beryl Sharp remembers singing around the piano and days at the beach during the 1950s when her family lived in what is now the little red house on Rocks Rd. Red stickered and abandoned since the 2022 storm triggered a landslide into the back of the house, vandals have now defaced the 1940s bungalow with tagging and left it in an even sadder state. But at 86, Beryl recalls happy days in a muchloved house. “Mum bought the house because she dreamed of living by the sea. In summer, we used to get up in the morning and put our togs on to go swimming and leave our togs on all day. We’d just go over the road and dive into the water.” She was one of the youngest twins in a family of nine children including another set of twins, and her mother had raised them by herself after Beryl’s father died suddenly when she was just 18 months old. “I had ‘five’ fathers because my brothers took over the role of father for us 18-month-old twins!” By the time they moved into the Rocks Rd house, there were four kids still at home and they were “squashed in like
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Upgrades going swimmingly Nelson Mayor Nick Smith visited Riverside Pool last week for an update about the building’s heating upgrade from Dave McKenzie, CLM’s facility manager. The $800,000 project is on time and
on budget, and the pool is set to reopen at the end of February. The new air handling units were installed last week, and the next step of the upgrade is to complete the installation of ducting, pipework, controls, and
wiring before all the equipment is tested and commissioned. While Riverside Pool has been closed, facility manager and council contractor, CLM Continued on Page 4.
Photo: Max Frethey.
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