Comments on: Do you remember the 1970s in Dunedin? /2009/10/10/do-you-remember-the-1970s-in-dunedin/ Creating a sense of identity Sat, 08 Mar 2014 21:51:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: flatnames /2009/10/10/do-you-remember-the-1970s-in-dunedin/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Sat, 08 Mar 2014 21:51:57 +0000 http://dunedinflatnames.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/do-you-remember-the-1970s-in-dunedin#comment-180 Sarah

]]> By: Mark Baxter /2009/10/10/do-you-remember-the-1970s-in-dunedin/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Tue, 04 Mar 2014 04:04:31 +0000 http://dunedinflatnames.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/do-you-remember-the-1970s-in-dunedin#comment-175 Hobbit’s Hovel was the first named flat I ever saw. it was one of the villas on the west side of Castle St on the block between Howe and Dundas Streets, possibly number 632 (or one of the ones a house or three southwards). It had a wooden sign with black text on white that had either been done professionally or by someone who had some skill, which hung between the two supports on the front verandah. The flat looked reasonably tidy for the record. And if I recall correctly was a quiet curtains drawn a lot of the time flat.

Toad Works was on Great King St, one of the two-story flats at number 473, I think the one on the left but could be wrong. Its sign was a Road Works sign (same shape as a street sign which I assume old Road Works signs were?) changed to read Toad Works, which was affixed to the bottom of one of the balconies. I believe this had been at a previous flat and was somewhat known by the wider population (it was my grandparents who pointed the sign out to me). Im pretty sure it was included in a bunch of sketches an artist had produced (on place-mats?) around this time; but I could be making that up.

This was in the mid/late 70s to very early 80s, I dont think either shifted in that time, but both did vanish at some point.

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