The ghost town of Endeans Mill at Waimiha in the King Country of New Zealand. An abandoned timber mill with machinery and houses and stacks of processed timber.
My dad was a Black Smith at Mangapehi Mill. We left in 1963, when Mum and Dad got wind of it closing down. Memories of Mangapehi are some of the best of my childhood . Friends with a family from there,64 years later.
Endean's Mill at Piropiro. The King Country was littered with places like this, with many completely disappearing from the sixties onward. Mangapehi, Ongarue, Taringamotu, Pokaka, Horopito, Erua. Same on the West Coast at Nelson Creek, Bell Hill, Te Kinga etc. Now all but forgotten.
How, sad. Unfortunately alot of NZ have left for Australia 🇦🇺 but Peter Dutton, Sending them back..so hopefully those ghost towns will fill up soon. "Cheers 🍻 Mate"
Reminds me of a beautiful little hard working mill called waimiha back in the day such a warm inviting home feel to it along with loving,caring nd very interesting characters nd most importantly whanau so many memories there of sharing a few beers nd lots of laughs at the club after a hard slogging hot shearing days work ..and the mill was pumping bk then could still be u neva know ..
@@michellemc5338 just type in. I bought a ghost town. He has spent just over a year there doing it up. You can also type in a year in a ghost town. That will get you there michelle.
@@scottishdude9161 I did see that channel, crazy guy.... it is great what his done preserving the history... a lot of work & mostly on his own amazing.
@@michellemc5338 yep hes crazy but what a job hes doing on that old town. I think hes building a hotel inside an old building. Would love to go see it sometime but from Scotland and no holidays this year again. Cant b bothered will all this covid stuff. Are you in the states yourself.
The people left because the industry was based on exploitation of ancient forests and the trees ran out. It was a classic "rush to destruction" industry. When pines were planted the old mills weren't suitable for cutting pine logs because they were inefficient and produced too much waste. When they were raping nature wastage wasn't a concern. But when you grow a crop people value it more. The King Country has a proud pioneer heritage but a disgraceful record of caring or being responsible for nature. 93% of the West Taupo- King Country forests were logged in just a few decades after the second world war. Some of the giant 1000 year old totara trees had trunks the width of a highway lane. You can see one wasting away at this derelict mill. The giant totara were the world's largest podocarps and NZ's national iconic tree, but treated like rubbish. Giant rata trees were just as big, but most have succumbed to farmers' fires or possums. Many of the mills were burnt down to collect insurance money just as the trees or contracts were about to run our (at Pureora, for example).
Its not a wasted land, the land is valuable and used by local farmers who support the looking after of the area! There is huge life going on, cycle tracks, farming, of sheep, beef, deer, maybe before you comment about something you know nothing about. Visit the area and get an in sight into it.!!
Some of the mill houses are being restored by DOC and others and the mill offers tours through for people like yourself to see how things were done before the mill was closed really interesting
My dad was a Black Smith at Mangapehi Mill. We left in 1963, when Mum and Dad got wind of it closing down. Memories of Mangapehi are some of the best of my childhood . Friends with a family from there,64 years later.
I’d love to look at places like that they always look interesting
🙏 Our Grandfather surname Rainey.. worked in timber mills near Te Kuiti..
Never knew/ know where..., but that’s!!🙏
Endean's Mill at Piropiro. The King Country was littered with places like this, with many completely disappearing from the sixties onward. Mangapehi, Ongarue, Taringamotu, Pokaka, Horopito, Erua. Same on the West Coast at Nelson Creek, Bell Hill, Te Kinga etc. Now all but forgotten.
How, sad.
Unfortunately alot of NZ have left for Australia 🇦🇺 but Peter Dutton, Sending them back..so hopefully those ghost towns will fill up soon.
"Cheers 🍻 Mate"
Ay don't think so
I remember along side the road the wild raspberry bushes, as kids we used to go down and “Pig out” on them hahaha
Reminds me of a beautiful little hard working mill called waimiha back in the day such a warm inviting home feel to it along with loving,caring nd very interesting characters nd most importantly whanau so many memories there of sharing a few beers nd lots of laughs at the club after a hard slogging hot shearing days work ..and the mill was pumping bk then could still be u neva know ..
I think I dropped a load of logs off here back in the 80s or was there a Waimiha Mill that looked similar?
Been there before was working at a scrap yard helped to recover a broken down car for recycling
plenty of firewood bobby rout invercargill
As a kid dad would go to the Kereopas for a beer there. We would go over to the mill and play. I wonder if the old hall is still in good condition?
ino the kereopas lol wow sonny kereopa lol
All you people know nothing about this place. It ain't a ghost town only one house is being restored at the moment
I'd love to own one an do it up
Do u watch the dude who did buy one and is doing it up right now.
@@scottishdude9161 is there link?
@@michellemc5338 just type in. I bought a ghost town. He has spent just over a year there doing it up. You can also type in a year in a ghost town. That will get you there michelle.
@@scottishdude9161 I did see that channel, crazy guy.... it is great what his done preserving the history... a lot of work & mostly on his own amazing.
@@michellemc5338 yep hes crazy but what a job hes doing on that old town. I think hes building a hotel inside an old building. Would love to go see it sometime but from Scotland and no holidays this year again. Cant b bothered will all this covid stuff. Are you in the states yourself.
Why did they leave
Erica MISS_E , if you lived there you would leave as well.
True true
The people left because the industry was based on exploitation of ancient forests and the trees ran out. It was a classic "rush to destruction" industry. When pines were planted the old mills weren't suitable for cutting pine logs because they were inefficient and produced too much waste. When they were raping nature wastage wasn't a concern. But when you grow a crop people value it more. The King Country has a proud pioneer heritage but a disgraceful record of caring or being responsible for nature. 93% of the West Taupo- King Country forests were logged in just a few decades after the second world war. Some of the giant 1000 year old totara trees had trunks the width of a highway lane. You can see one wasting away at this derelict mill. The giant totara were the world's largest podocarps and NZ's national iconic tree, but treated like rubbish. Giant rata trees were just as big, but most have succumbed to farmers' fires or possums.
Many of the mills were burnt down to collect insurance money just as the trees or contracts were about to run our (at Pureora, for example).
been there once it was mean
A rather sad & desolate place & look at all that timber - lying there to rot. WASTE
Pine forest will kill any small town.
what a sad and wasted land. So many homeless people and on the dull could put life back in these beautiful places. Just my opinion
Its not a wasted land, the land is valuable and used by local farmers who support the looking after of the area! There is huge life going on, cycle tracks, farming, of sheep, beef, deer, maybe before you comment about something you know nothing about. Visit the area and get an in sight into it.!!
Some of the mill houses are being restored by DOC and others and the mill offers tours through for people like yourself to see how things were done before the mill was closed really interesting
These are just messy King Country Farms??
No they are not they are very productive excellent farms and farmers working very hard !
The fence battens are regular and upright. Someone cares!
Captain Awesome and what would u nuk bout our KC farms
Come down here and say that to the farmers they knock ur block off
@@russellward8694 Russell Ward from Masterton??
This sort of crap makes me hate farmers! All that waste!