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The Reefton School of Mines 1886Party of deerstalkers returning home.Blaketown lagoon.1862.Albert Street under flood. 1936.Dobson Car Rest Home (album)Oddfellows Hall ReeftonWilsons / Harris' Hotel Reefton
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Dunollie, August 1962.Reefton Railway, 1960s.So, who remembers Paul Agnes Smiths Grandparents, Preston Smith and Ethel Smith? Ahaura Pioneers.Ahaura Hotel. Then and Now.Totara Flat Hall. Then and Now.Totara Flat Butcher Shop. Then and Now.Possibly Thomas Bragg in Orange Order sashKathleen Margaret Lawson - nee SmithStagecoaches at Broken river enroute to the West Coast.ca.1880-90s.Aerial photo of the infamous Zigzag. Otira Gorge 1959Car on the train, Arthurs Pass,1939.Jean Batten and John Royds at Greymouth Aero Club *PHOTO ALBUM*Ellen and Jack Askew and sons Doug and Stanley .ca.1912.Ellen (Nell) Askew who died of flu in Reefton, 1918.Guinness St from Herbert St. Then and Now.George and Clara Clark, Westport.Timothy Mullins hotel at KamakaRegent Theatre, Greymouth. Then - 1969. Now - December 2018.Camp St/State Highway, Ahaura. Then - date unknown. Now - December 2018.St Patrick’s Presbytery, Chapel St, Greymouth. Then – Date unknown. Now – December 2018.House next door to the Recreation Hotel, GreymouthIkamatua Post Office then and now.T R and W F engines at the Elmer Lane Roundhouse, Greymouth.1964.Wallsend.1928.House next door to the Recreation Hotel, Greymouth, being pulled downGreymouth Watersiders Cricket Team, 1922.West Coast Rugby Union Third Grade RepsEnglish Women's Cricket team visit to West Coast 1949 Taylorville, part of the borough of Brunnerton..1928.Image drawn by Tas Turner of Andersons Flat as it was in the early 1900s.West Coast Rugby Third Grade Representative team,1947.Cobden Women's Cricket team, 1946 -1947Mayor Dr Barry Dallas and Miss New Zealand Christine Antunovic, 1968Rapahoe coal train. Snowy Olderog's garage in view.1960sEarthquake damage Karamea 31 July 1929Postcard of Coal Creek Falls track 1909.A close up of roadmaking with picks and hammers in the Haast area .1939.Plaque in memory of Herbert John Robinson on scenic reserve, Taramakau.Camerons Sports Day in Fred Russ paddock.1949.Mail plane circling Okuru, 7 Oct 1936.A saddle-tank locomotive pulling rail coaches across the Chasm Creek ,Seddonville.Westland Greenstone Factory, Hokitika.ca.1970s.Recreation Hotel, Greymouth, 1960sBuller Gorge Christmas Postcard 1920sJohn Hinton's Christmas poem from 1972 about the Forest ServiceDunollie State Coal Mine 1904 PostcardMarjorie CaseyLake Kaniere Postcard 1960-70Postcard of Cobden Bridges 1960'sChristmas Nativity Scene with the Greymouth Council Chambers and St John's Presbyterian Church

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