 You come down here. There was a path big sandpit. There was a playground here and These were the clas- these were the classrooms So I went to my first ever day of school at age five, right? I would say right Right here Right here, fucking hell This is blowing my mind guys. I'm so glad I did this Wow, yeah, I swear to God I'm with it. I don't see nobody in my lane It's quite go get it like me as we head over the top This is what it looks like This is what The summit road is like on the other side of the hill and it's absolutely amazing. This is Banks Peninsula This is Littleton Harbor and this is where This is where I grew up man This is where I grew up this kind of scenery. It was fucking beautiful Welcome back to another video. What we are gonna do now is we're gonna check out my old primary school in Littleton The old stomping grounds. I went here from age five to eleven and Then at that age I went to South Intermediate Christchurch South Intermediate So after this video our next one's gonna be checking out my old intermediate and the final video for the day is Gonna be checking out my old high school So sit back relax. We're here in Littleton Harbor And it's looking beautiful as ever. This road was closed For the best part of eight years after the earthquakes happened and it's only just opened again now And this is what it looks like Okay So we're heading up a street called Hawker's Road It actually took me a while to remember what it was called. This is a street that I walked up many times in fact Well, basically every day after school. We've got the bus This is high school. I got the bus down to the bottom and then we walked up to where I lived Which was a combination of my dad's my mom's house. We're gonna go past my dad's on the way to my primary school So I'll show you that If we're talking about childhood memories You know, I can't go past this house This house is my childhood if I'm gonna be honest and Let's have a look at it This was my dad's pride and joy He wanted to build he wanted to design and build a house as in whole entire life and he finally did it here in Littleton and It's changed hands a couple of times after the earthquakes But like this is this is the kind of view that you're dealing with up the top here And this is the house This is it man to a To a Tyceus terrace Let me get up the top here and have a look properly Yep, this is the old street Tyceus terrace wasn't big wasn't a Very roomy street But that's okay. Here's the house man. Holy shit. Here it is Right up the top. I'm not sure if anyone lives in here now. There's not much in there Not much in there at all Down there Is my old bedroom Right down there, and this is this is the view from the front We had a rooftop garden. It was a lot of fun times man a lot of Lot of parties just a lot of good times. This was a fantastic house to have as a kid I guess you can kind of get the gist of the view from up here But that's the whole basin whole little tin township and As we continue around here we head to the west side of little tin and My primary school which is Named little tin west So I'll see you there. So this road Is called What is it called Harman's Road? It's another tight one. That's what you find in Liddleton. They're all these all these old streets that really really tight and They're probably never ever gonna get redone to be honest They're just little streets little laneways around these hills, and I love it. I really do I Love little tin So this is Harman's Road Tan turn at the end of it and head down to the school So let's do that Down here. That's where I had my fifth birthday Throne gumboots and all sorts of other things. Here. We are. This is Volus Road Bloody steep road. I would I've got to say that my friends is what's left of my primary school and I say what's left because It's been demolished The entire school has been demolished And if you look at it from above All it is is a whole bunch of grassy grassy flat areas All the buildings have gone But one thing I've wanted to do for a long time is walk through the whole thing Just like the old days So That's exactly what we're gonna do Littleton West Primary School Wowie Back again as I walk through the school. Oh my god. I think that was the front gate Right there That was the front gate. That was the second flat. That was the bottom flat And that was the top flat So I mean If I could go through the gate, I would but I don't think it's possible. So we're gonna go Gonna go up here and one of my most vivid memories One of my best memories about this area this top flat is we used to do athletics On this grassy area and if you can imagine, I mean five to ten year olds You don't really need a huge area And one of the things I remember the most is doing high jump right there And also throwing a discus and a shot put Now this part of the this part of the school hasn't actually changed that much they had a they had a dental a Dental nurse office kind of thing like right here They might have used that for other things, but I think that was just for dental services to the school That's been that's been bold. I don't know where that's gone But behind me And still see the original The original ramp and steps. Holy shit, man. Oh my god used to jump on our skateboards sit on our skateboards and Come rolling down here all the way to the end That's one thing I remember Can you imagine it up the top there sitting down on your skateboard come all the way down even though there's no path and Try and stop before the road fucking hell man. I think I Think we had a fair few weddings up here In this spot right here at the top You came along the bride and groom Might have had a ring made from something and You used to kiss the bride up the top and we used to have an audience up here, too Holy shit Holy shit Wowie so From what I recall. Oh my god. This looks totally and utterly Different this is like buildings right there buildings my classroom was right there My second. No, sorry. My first classroom was up there Second down here third there and then I went to South Intermediate. We've got to go check this shit out man. This is this is a This is fucking different man, I'll tell you that Okay, so this was the top flat We'd come down here. We'd come down here This was a little alleyway that went behind the building So if you can imagine they probably had like a couple of feet or three feet Around the edge of the building that you could walk down other than that. This was classrooms down there Oh my what was down there Was that the pool? I think that was the pool down there, but the pools gone, but this This was this was my classroom man I'm just honestly. It's it's very very hard. It is extremely hard for me to actually Put two and two together here. I feel like that was a staircase going up and They had hooks for your bag. I don't know if you'd want to leave your bag these days and trust everyone But we did back in the day These were the steps up to the top flat This area looked a whole lot bigger before when I was five. There was a massive sand pit there And we used to play ball rush We used to play ball rush from one end to the other at age like age six or seven fuck me man. Oh Shit There's the top entrance up there. You could either come in from the bottom, which I showed you before or the top You come down here. There was a path big sand pit. It was a playground here And these were the clas these were the classrooms So I went to my first ever day of school at age five right I Would say right Right here right here fucking hell This is blowing my mind guys. I'm so glad I did this I'm so glad And everything looks a whole lot smaller now that I'm a bit bigger, I guess It is sad. There's nothing here. There's literally nothing here guys. The school's gone little Tim West Combined with little Tim main to make little Tim primary school. I always thought it was weird that they split it up into two but It created a nice rivalry between the two schools. You know what I mean? Little Tim main is a pain little Tim main has no brain little Tim main down the drain Versus little Tim West is a pest but little Tim West also is the best so You know what I'm saying You know what I'm saying. Oh man so many games of of tag so many games of Dodgeball were played around here. All right. Let's head down here Now this this is actually hard for me to To take in I don't exactly know where I am, but I believe this was the pool area in fact No, it was the pool area because you could see down from That top flats. There was a big office building here The changing rooms were like right here and there was a path going down there and then along the front to the entrance And these were the steps down to The middle flat which had a big library. There's a massive there's probably like three or four different classrooms along there Which are all gone and there was a preschool down here, and that's all gone and we used to come along here get our lunch If you if you if you got a pie Pie day Friday used to put your little order in in your classroom and come down here and pick it up And after you got your pie you'd come along here and You'd hang out under the stairs as you do Fuck this was like a big playground back in the day a big jungle We used to sit out there. We used to climb up the back here all the vines And if my memory serves me correctly, I do believe I do believe that right in this corner What's the school bell? This was where the school bell was and it's one of those bells that had to be rung I remember there must have been a student must have been a senior student that got Tasked with being the bell person So they'd have to get out of class early that I have to I don't know if they got out of class early, but that'd be no no That makes sense The bell to let people out was automatic The one to get people to go back into the class was actually rung by a student right here And then we head down To the bottom flat and the bottom flat is where me being a little sportsman that I used to Loved I loved it down there. We played games We played Well, we didn't play anything too physical because it was concrete, but we definitely played games whenever the class went out to play Play a game with each other we'd we'd head down here and I guess, you know, this is probably the area that looks the most similar to what it What it used to Which is just a big Concrete bottom flat And There used to be a massive playground actually all that area down there where there's some grass used to be a big playground The biggest playground the best playground in the school and along here Used to be the equipment room. So we'd have all the balls and all the I guess Yeah, quick equipment cricket. We used to bring out those those plastic cricket sets a lot We used to pay a lot of cricket down here there were netball netball hoops and What I will say is that a shitload a shitload of balls tennis balls soccer balls rugby balls Whatever you want to call it went over that fence and basically never saw the light of day again Yeah, there was a lot there was a fit there was a hole in the fence probably just over there and You know, you basically did paper scissors rock or what have you the loser tried to go through the hole and search for the balls and Geez what a time what a time to be alive this was But the whole place is That's barren man. All that is is a whole bunch of grassy flats and to be honest is quite cool. It is quite cool I mean, it's basically like three or four different picnic areas With amazing views. I mean look at this shit Look at this shit. This is Littleton, man This is Littleton So I'm gonna try and get out this gate. Oh my god. The amount of times I went running up and down these stairs These exact stairs guys. Yes. There was a big one right at the bottom like that. Yep Big landing fucking hell Look at this. That actually looks like a half decent basketball hoop But I'm getting very very very very very nostalgic being in here guys Very much so but it is time to let time to leave I'm gonna get through this gate That's it man That is it. That's the bottom flat that I was talking about The car is all the way up there so I Guess I Guess this would be a good time to leave you That was a little look at my my childhood house basically my dad's house in Littleton and my primary school and You know life life change when I went to intermediate life was very very simple at the school. It was You know probably only 70 or 80 people in the whole school I had a really really good tight group of mates, so I'd grown up with and I decided when my parents decided That the best thing for me was to go to a an intermediate school is basically Preparing a kid for high school and so that is where The story continues So I hope you enjoyed that was my look at Littleton West primary schools the first time I've been there in 15 years Definitely the first time I've been in there since it's it's been bold and If you didn't know the main reason why it has been bold is because there was so much damage due to the earthquakes that came through Christchurch Near on probably about eight years ago now, so It's sad it is sad but at least at least it's not completely like blocked off and I can still walk through it and be as Nostalgic as I am because this is amazing man oh my god fucking amazing to be walking through it again and just Putting the pieces together and it's cool man. Anyway, I'm gonna see you guys and do the exact same thing at a place called Christchurch South intermediate in Christchurch, so thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one Quick update. We're not gonna be able to do the the two other school videos because Unfortunately, whoops, that was me Unfortunately It's it's not school holidays. So car parks are full teachers are running around Students are running around and there's no way I'm gonna be running around with this camera in my hand. So Christchurch South intermediate school and cash me a high school both in Christchurch, New Zealand You'll not be able to see but I've had a quick drive through and it's Very nostalgic that's for sure. So there was a few stories. I would have loved to be able to tell you But I'm not gonna be able to so that's it for the schools We've had three videos today The first was my first car crash and the lessons I learned the second was my second car crash and the lessons I learned and the third. Well, I don't know what it's gonna be titled yet But it's something about my primary school in Littleton and my dad's house titles and thumbnails are so key guys I'm coming to terms with that. In fact a little bit of clickbait goes a whole long way So maybe I'll use that too But at the end of the day, I hope you enjoyed the video and I'll see in the next one. Peace