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Wilsons / 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.Dobson Car Rest Home. -ALBUM-Oddfellows Hall Reefton
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Buy a coffee from The Hideaway and get free matchesPoliceman Dave PorteousLauderdale shipwreck, Greymouth-Blaketown, July 1910 *PHOTO ALBUM*Fish Bridge on the Haast Highway.ca.1940.A West Coast driver's miraculous escape - Miners` bus completely wrecked near Granity.Gibson's Quay,Hokitika.1868.Taking a rest on a path through the bush.Woman preparing meal outdoors at Westport after 1929 earthquake.Day out at Lake Mahinapua.ca.1890s-1910`s.Two men are cleaning up the race on a West Coast sluicing claim.1930.THE CLARK HUT, HAAST VALLEY.1907.NZ Coal cover 1985 - Landslip at 10 Mile Creek that put Kiwi Mine out of action.Timber Cruiser's reunion photo taken in South Westland . 2000.ALBUM - MILFORD SOUND, Homer Tunnel and Track - Then and Now.ALBUM - PORT OF GREYMOUTH - Hydraulic cranes loading coal prior to1950's.Horse and carriage at Little Hawks CragA wagon travelling through the upper Buller Gorge.ca.1921.Passengers entering a De Havilland aircraft; DH.83 (Transport plane)Waiho Gorge.7 Oct, 1936.OTIRA .1935.hhALBUM - William J Lawry , went to Greymouth to enlist - Copy of some of his paperwork.The Greville Family From Hokitika Two men with broad axesRay Chandler, bushman in Buller District.Messenger story to go with Ray Chandler photoViolet Greville (Centre)ALBUM - Greymouth Motor Cycle Club, 1960-61.Franz Josef .ca.1970-71.ALBUM - Joseph Henry Earle Greville and his wife Alice (nee Larmour)Charles Greville, 1857-1893.ALBUM - Emma Greville Hokitika ,1862 - 1910.ALBUM - The Greville Girls - Hokitika.ca.1905.P C Peters, Boot Repairer,Whall St, Opposite Revington`s Hotel, Greymouth.William Dykes at the Pancake Rocks, Punakaiki.ca.1928 -1935 .ALBUM - Early pics of the New Century Fruit and Garden shop.Greymouth.Grey District Council futures discussion document 1995 to 2025Off to the races - Tom O'Callaghan (sen) left, Beattie O'Callaghan right.Greymouth 1940`s.Greymouth cricket - Tom O'Callaghan (sen) back 2nd left .ca.1930`s WHO - Anzac Park ? 1984.Kumara .1909.Mystery photo - possibly a Sweetman family link1988-- OMOTO RACECOURSE. New Grandstand.Greymouth aerial 1970sTenting West CoastNZR (Railways) chairARAHURA Pa. Historical Cemetery. *PHOTO ALBUM*Dennis Smith's collection, train to Canterbury and Ashburton. *PHOTO ALBUM*Greymouth Shunt Wf 380 - 31 December 1963. Greymouth - looking North from from North end of platform.2000HISTORY HOUSE MUSEUM GREYMOUTH. Mackay Street. 2017.*PHOTO ALBUM*

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