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Dobson Car Rest Home. -ALBUM-Oddfellows Hall ReeftonWilsons / Harris' Hotel ReeftonThe Reefton School of Mines 1886Party of deerstalkers returning home.Blaketown lagoon.1862.Albert Street under flood. 1936.
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A temporary deviation formed at Clay Bank near Murchison. 1929.Clarke’s Bluff,Haast Pass Road, on Road trip to West Coast.1960. -2 PHOTOS-Violet McTaggart and Leola Stenhouse.Runanga Catholic Womens League at Greymouth functionTraction engine, southern AlpsThis tray used to adorn the Bar of Blackball's Dominion Hotel.1960`s.Glass from the Greyhound Hotel,Arahura. D.L. Scott (Proprietor) .Denniston Incline.1905.King's Birthday Celebration procession by the children of the Cobden School.1922.Hokitika.Ray Johnston, the Actor, at the Waiuta gold mine just before it shut.ca.1951Caledonian Hotel, Okarito . ca.1904.Ken and Tush McTaggart, Herd Street, Dunollie 1950Fox Moth at "Wings and Wheels" air show at Wigram.1995.Nude frolickers warned ! Greymouth.1950.The hut where Eggers lived while waiting to commit his ambush of the pay car.1917. -2 PHOTOS-Gates of Haast. 1982.Chapel Street, Greymouth.1900-1920.Traction Engine, "Matilda" restored and on show in The Strand Domain, Reefton, 1980.Remains of Slab Hut Dredge, Mai Mai, 1978.Otira Railway Houses 1920s.Brunnerton aerial 1952Wedding of Annie McGuire and James Beban, Greymouth, 1910.Greymouth port 1952, aerialRunanga boys 1960sLooking up towards Callery Gorge, Waiho. ca.1905.A group of New Zealand railways cleaners, Westport.Probably Greymouth Engine driver Peter Griffin Revell Street, showing the Harbour, Hokitika.1868.Keith "Robbie" Robertson - the last storekeeper at the Okarito General Store. February.1984.Australian Bushfires affecting skies on the West Coast.1960`s.Newmans Bros., leaving Nelson for the West Coast, ca 1920s.Broadway, Reefton, date unknown.Tom Williams, last manager of the Golden Coast Dairy Factory, Reefton.Coal Range- Roasts, doughboys and scones.Roundhouse - Elmer Lane .1970. - 2 PHOTOS -Hokitika Townhall ,1869 .The Paparoa Coal Company`s bins and Station at Roa.Road out of Reefton, ca 1950's.Mary RobertsStar United Rugby Club, Greymouth - First Team.1898.Denniston bridle path, early 1900s.Burnetts Face , Denniston .1910.The tragic story of Dorothy Broad and her fiancee- and the nightdress she never wore. WW1.Flagstaff Point,North Beach - 3/4 of a mile from Cobden.Photos from Denniston 1930. Album 4 photos.Funeral for victims of Kaye and Party Mine explosion, Nov 1940. -2 PHOTOS-Blackball Coal Co., coal bins at Ngahere 1909.Palmerston Street, Westport.Merv Thomas and Snowy Bennett, Goldlight Mine, Rewanui Line.

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