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Dobson Car Rest Home. -ALBUM-Oddfellows Hall ReeftonWilsons / Harris' Hotel ReeftonThe Reefton School of Mines 1886Albert Street under flood - Percy K. Wah with bike.. 1936.Party of deerstalkers returning home.Blaketown lagoon.1862.
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GREYMOUTH DISTRICT CIVIC AWARDS--2019.Dick and Mona Collins and family, buried StillwaterWaldo the dog gets a Civic AwardAnatoki cargo ship, Greymouth *PHOTO ALBUM*Laundry basketRugby league legendsKiwi player Mike O'Donnell - 10 years Kiwi Rep.1970.Greymouth town square art by Mark HaldaneMain Street, BlackballGreymouth port shedJames Trice, harbourmaster in HokitikaELECTRIC TRAIN - OTIRA.St Barbara is the patron saint of miners, engineers, and artillerymenThis "squeeze box" was brought out to the Coast from Lancashire by my Great Grandfather, Moses Wallwork.Slip at Whitecliffs after the Inangahua earthquake.1968.WEST COAST POLICE FORCE--2015. *PHOTO ALBUM*Damage to houses at Buller from the Inangahua earthquake. 1968, Ron Taylor - dentist and communist Tour coaches outside Kings Hotel, GreymouthCCS. Disability Action - Greymouth Opening 2009 Runanga Seagulls 7th grade 1990 An ingot of gold stamped 'BM' (Blackwater Mine) held in one hand and a bread bun held in another hand for size comparison.1930`s.CRUSHINGTON, WESTLAND, SHOWING THE 'KEEP IT DARK' BATTERY BUILDINGS IN THE FOREGROUND, AND THE PROGRESS BATTERY IN THE DISTANCE.1910. Southern Alps viewed from Gillespies Track, South Westland. 1930.The opening of the Overseas Club and Westland Soldiers' Rooms at Hokitika .1916.Rugby league's Brent StuartFranz Josef Glacier, 1947.Unidentified West Coast beach, 1967.Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on their 1953 tour - Greymouth *PHOTO ALBUM*Arthurs Pass to Klondyke corner and Minga Bluffs road re-alignment. 2015. *PHOTO ALBUM*Two men inspecting a bank of sluice boxes during gold mining operations in Westland. Exact location unknownHot pool at Franz Josef Glacier.ca.1930`s.2019---Blue Prints for Greymouth WHARF CRANES RESTORATION.Constable William Ralph Baird, Blackball Police Station 1916-17 *PHOTO ALBUM*Bushmen at Kotuku.Float in the Greymouth centennial celebration procession.1940.Greymouth Pipe band.1940.N. Henderson erecting a carrying set at Bellevue Mine, Eight Mile, in the Grey coal fields.ca.1950`s.Tainui Street, Greymouth from Mawhera Quay and the Grey River,ca.1930`s.Greymouth.1930`s.Greymouth.ca.1930`s.Studio portrait of members of Westland Presbyterian Church .1928.A thriving mining settlement - Waiuta township.1932.Town of Brighton, surveyed by J. Bull, Jan. 1867.Men fishing from the rocks at Seal Island,Woodpecker Bay.1937.Camping near Tiromoana, Fox River.1937.Queen Elizabeth II at Kawatiri Airport, Westport, 1954.Liverpool Miners talking to Minister of Energy, Rt. Hon. Rob Tizard, 1984.Greymouth's oldest business - Griffen and Smith Mitre 10 *PHOTO ALBUM*The opening of a new gold dredge for White's Electric Gold Dredging Company. Barrytown.1936.

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