I took photos as we travelled home from Timaru. Lots of photos. This one I've cropped in an attempt to make it difficult for you to recognise, however I may have left too much detail in, so if you do know what it is, your challenge will be to say where it is as well. Should you care to have a pot.
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Grafitti or mural on concrete, of a tiger. Looks familiar but can't remember where. Is it one of the Dunedin bustops?
The Bell Tiger Tea tiger on a building somewhere...(i can remember this mural... but it escapes me where!).
I may know exactly as I also recently took a photo of that same wall.
I believe it is the Hampden (North Otago) bottom shop and I also remember when it was first painted being a youth of that town at the time. I was immediately brainwashed due to the size of the advertisement and have been convinced ever since that Tiger Tea is the best but am struggling to find it in the shops now. Any idea if it is still available? Thanks for the memory
S S B
Thank you for the memories
Anonymous! Bulls-eye!
The tiger is on the wall of the old Hampden 'bottom shop' (now a wonderful second hand shop with the most interesting garden tools anywhere!).
The grandmother of my wife (my grandmother-in-law?)lived in the house beside the store and we were visiting yesterday to see if there was much left from the days she lived there. There was and I'll post a photo of the old dunny when I get back home.
The tiger is a powerful image and I can understand why you wouldn't drink any other tea!
Robyn (and I) would be very interested to hear something of your experience in 'early' Hampden. If we hadn't chosen Riverton to settle in, we'd have gone to Hampden. they have an 'apple' day there this Saturday, in the old church that has the holes drilled in the stonework with coins inn the hands of waiting children. Perhaps you were one of those :-)
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