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The Reefton School of Mines 1886Albert Street under flood - Percy K. Wah with bike.. 1936.Party of deerstalkers returning home.Blaketown lagoon.1862.Dobson Car Rest Home. -ALBUM-Oddfellows Hall ReeftonWilsons / Harris' Hotel Reefton
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ALBUM - A page from the book written on the Runanga Co - op.Laura Smith/ Boyle nee Bell ( front left) and some of her siblings - Hokitika Cemetery.( ? )New Zealnd Military Wing Commander Camille Enright Malfroy DFC RAF, born HokitikaRunanga.Cobden School , 1989.GILLMAN`S Ford V8 Truck Transporting Logs to their Stillwater sawmill.Puketahi Street, GreymouthLost (and not so lost) laneways of Greymouth - a quick historyOld cars in School Lane, GreymouthLynda Dando passed away four weeks today ex Taylorville and Greymouth.R.I.P.RUNANGA- McGOWAN STREET.1912 Salute to a Soldier - Cheryl Lowe (nee Clark) sent me this Allan Rooney was given this at the Miners` picnic at Mahinapua when he was six.COAL PRODUCTION for PRIVATE Co. Op MINES on state reserves in the Greymouth area coalfieldSea Tow barge loading coal, Grey River *PHOTO ALBUM*Building the Cobden rail bridgeBlaketown beach 1983Blanchfield`s Bakery, Greymouth.Two bridges over Sawyers Creek near Dixon Park, early 1880sMackay Street, Greymouth, from railway end about 1912Ex Navalmens`Conference Greymouth .1958.Summit of Porters Pass - West Coast Road.Greymouth town hall locationShip aground Cobden beach, elevated view of Greymouth 1880ALBUM - INSIDE PIKE RIVER COALMINE. 2007-16.PORTERS PASS, WEST COAST ROAD.RIMU GOLD DREDGE/gold screen--- 1990sPaul Robin and Ces Clark from NZ Forest Service, walking out from Haupiri Spa BathsBruce Watson NZ Forest Service and Max Gage, Kirwins Hill, Feb 1984 Strongman Mine, McGlashans bus, Blaketown school reunion, Coburns bus *PHOTO ALBUM*ALBUM - A few more Music Hall pictures - I have tried to capture different people in these ones.Porters Pass - Christchurch West Coast Road.1912.ALBUM - Star Rugby Football Club. Greymouth.ca.1950`s.Ex-services painters and Otira tearoom ladies - Laurie Scott,Joan Win, Jean Wells and Philip Scott.ca.1953. Joan Win, Pilot Bob Nossiter, Pilot Harry Howard, Jean Anderson and Jean Wells and Philip Scott - Hokitika airport 1952, DC3.Alternative entrance to Grey River from Cobden *PHOTO ALBUM*ALBUM - A few more photos from Operatic Music Hall.Greymouth.Roa town historyOperatic Music Hall *PHOTO ALBUM*Blackball Rugby League Club.Letter in support of the Moonlight Centennial, 1965, from Jack MoonlightDorothy Falls, Lake KaniereBlackball Rugby League badgeBucket dredge Mawhera during its dry dock survey at Lyttelton around 1957 *PHOTO ALBUM*.The washing machine, 1960s *PHOTO ALBUM*Westland Savings Bank mobile camper *PHOTO ALBUM*ALBUM - ANZAC --LEST WE FORGET.Strongman Mine and manager Tom BrazilBlaketown, Greymouth aerial 2005OTIRA GORGE in winter - IMAGINE the JOURNEY!

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