Greenock Farms Ltd (1980)
How the property was started:
We first laid eyes on this property, located in the Greenock area of Awhitu, while the Snedden family were hiking from Kariotahi to the Manukau heads and then back around the bays during the 1979 holidays.
The property was rather run down with an old shed and a bus near the beach house and next to the top house was a rubbish dump, but it still had something "special" about it.
Jim and Phyllis decided to get up to ten like - minded families to have a share in what had become a dream.
How did we get the name Greenock Farms Ltd:
As the prospective shareholders gathered together in 1980, it became clear that their new company would be requiring a name. Eventually an old lands and survey was produced, which showed that this particular area of land, was once known as Greenock, having been named after a village in Scotland.
Being a very old map with poor faded print the name appeared to read as Greehock and after much discussion that name was agreed on as a suitable one for the company.
Even once the mistake was eventually discovered, we decided to keep the original name of Greehock Farms Ltd and the name has remained for the past 40 years.
In 2019, it was finely decided we would change the name to Greenock, recognised as being part of the Awhitu area, a beautiful Scottish name pronounced ( ɡriːnək ) as our name for homeway/Bookabach holiday accommodation.
Greenock in Scotland:
Greenock is an industrial burgh (town) and port in Inverclyde council area, historic county of Renfrewshire, Scotland, on the southern shore of the Firth of Clyde west of Glasgow.
Hemmed in by hills, the town is largely confined to the waterfront, along which it stretches for approximately 4 miles (6.5 km). The cramped lower waterside industrial areas contrast with the later 19th-century residential areas, which occupy the higher land.