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The electrician's workshop on the left, attached to the main stores. In the background is the Blacksmith shop, Fitters workshop and Carpenters shop. On the right of the picture is the Lamp-house, where everyone going underground was issued their individual lamps, so the empty spaces indicated who was underground. Each lamp was numbered on the battery and was always returned to its correct (also numbered slot) to be charged."Date of Photo1965Map[1]
William Glendenning
Yes Dobson mine, I served most of my apprenticeship as an electrician there, but left at the end of 1964 This was taken around 1965. The electrician's workshop on the left, attached to the main stores. In the background is the Blacksmith shop, Fitters workshop and Carpenters shop. On the right of the picture is the Lamp-house, where everyone going underground was issued their individual lamps, so the empty spaces indicated who was underground. Each lamp was numbered on the battery and was always returned to its correct (also numbered slot) to be charged
Sharron Wright
Love the photo
Judy Ramsay
Darryll Coxall
Margaret Crooks
My Father Noel Morland also worked there after transferring from Blackball Mine in 1955 till it closed in 1968
Judy Ramsay
Doug Coxall
Brendon Barrow
I remember daryll Coxall came from Reefton and later a mechanic at the P and T Boarded in Smith Street and later moved to Wellington Any info would be great
Judy Ramsay
got his phone number here also his address ok
Brendon Barrow
Opps read it again I see it is Doug but anyway any info on Darryll would be great
Judy Ramsay
have Darrylls ok
Brendon Barrow
Yes Judy can you email it brendon.barrow@xtra.co.nz Many thanks bb
Margaret Elaine Sadler
The two Gibson brothers were also top earning miners George and don't know his brothers name.
William Glendenning
The names are all familiar, but as a scatty teenager I don't remember the faces. Also my old man, Jim Glendenning was district superintendent of mines, so I was regarded with some suspicion. Can't blame them really, but I didn't really get on with the old man, so no one really needed to worry. Water under the bridge now. I was there 1959 (late) till 1964 (December)
Heather Newby
Dad said the safety measures and protocols in Dobson were much better than in the Strong mine.He said he saw guys grunching in Strongman mine..and he stopped one miner and asked him who gave him permisson to Grunch and he said the inspector.. but Dad said no one would ever give permission to grunch, In the Dobson mine they planked.Grunching caused the Strongman mine disaster.
Robert Fay Lemon Griffin
The white building was the lamp house,The top gantry was where the coal trucks were weighed.I used to play up there with the Cameron and Wicks boys.Great place to get into trouble,MY old man could see us from the kitchen window. We would quite often cop a flogging .
Heather Munro
I remember going there on a school trip in the late '60's. We also visited the Snowflake factory the same day
Arthur Blance
My father worked there Leo Blance or pea wee as he was known Robert Fay Lemon Griffin and I seen Eric Wicks a few months back and he looked good
Emily Myrtle Manson
Remember that site well
Laurence Pattinson
are you sure you seen eric wicks i thought he died years ago
Alison Hibbs
A group of us from Stillwater school went down into the mine. But i cant remember if it was Wallsend or Dobson.
Laurence Pattinson
it would have been dobson
Brian McIntyre
Laurence Pattinson did you see my pm to you
Arthur Blance
Hi Laurence yeah he was in the police force working at the courts here in Wellington until a few years ago when he retired I seen him at westfields mall a couple of months ago and spoke to him for awhile he said he visits the coast from time to time his brother still lives ther., Eric if my memory serves me right lives in Wainuiomata he told that he played rugby league with my uncle and new my father wel.l Nice to know ya still alive and kicking Laurence Pattinson
Laurence Pattinson
ok mate yea he was eric twin brother son sorry mate
Laurence Pattinson
yea i remember your father well is he still a live had many a beer with him in the buckshead they where the days
Arthur Blance
both parents passed bud was at Dobson school with Russell and remember visiting your family home on many of occasions spoke to Russell on the phone a couple of years ago will have to give him another call soon for a catch up take care
Patrick Casserly I was the top griper boy eve wick and bill ruru wear in the way Cabin
Rob Elwood My uncle Bob Dixon left there about then and moved to Picton.
at's about the year Dad (Pat Kelly) left. He worked in the boiler house.
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Shona Ratana
Shona Ratana Our Dad John Tackney was working there at this time
Robert Fay Lemon Griffin As kids we used to have our hair cut by Mr Cootes who was in charge of the lamp house. Also spent hours playing on the mine site. Had our nightly shower in the bath house as we lived up the hill above the mine,
Garry Wick My dad Evy Wick worked alongside Jock White as weigh -men up in the weigh bridge here .
Kath Merv Moreton Great memories here of a childhood here.Us Wick's were the "Hillbillies" living at the top of the hill next to the Mine.Hello Robert Griffen!!
Sue Lucas My Dad Tom Dick was engineer there but had left by 65
Helen Green Memories! We used to play on the gantry! Without our parents knowledge I might add. My father and uncles worked in Mine.
Patrick Casserly Helen Green yes I worked with Len Green In Dobson mine I Remember all the greens children in the front row of the old Brunner catholic church working down in the dobson mine he used to tell some stories about England I was like a sponge listening to him with his Pommy accent then on sun days at the old Brunner church the green Family would take up to Rows on Sunday I am trying to think of the other family in the front row on the other side it’s a left-hand side do you rememberLois Iacoppi The Green family were our friends too, how they all fitted in their house was a mystery Len became a baker when the mine closed, I think
Patrick Casserly Lois Iacoppi there were Italian families living in Wallsend or Brenner the name of the family was the masseglo did you no them they love ther red wine he worked in Dobson mine
Helen Chappell Awe fleeing home sick. Love Dobson
Tina Ross The ole hometown
Helen Chappell Awe love it
Patrick Casserly Good memory their billy glendenning Great memories there bill it was a great place to work the safety systems at Dobson mine was extraordinary ist not to you get older you realise how the Manages and deputies the unions working together to keep us miners and truckers safe every day we went down the mine with their safety length lamps checking for gas they’re done that 24 hours
Nadine Mckain Getting home sick. I also grew up there. Great swimming hole down the bank CLose to the bins
Lets be honest Lyn you were just like the rest of us-good country kids but a lot less than the saints symbol that you have used ??good to hear from you.For me I still struggle at times to reason why such a huge reserve of coal was left behind when all the infrastructure was there just saying!!!
Lyn Gibson
Rob Lunn oh how I loved my days in Dobson and the people there that made it so special and I agree about the coal left behind ?
Rob Lunn
Lyn Gibson yes we were very lucky to have an environment like that to grow up in we still have young families and kids growing up but they will never know what it used to be like back in our childhood
Heather Newby
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Lyn Gibson dad enjoyed the cameraderie
Bill Stephenson
My lamp number was 144.. The lamp controller, a chap named Coutts, knew everyone by their lamp number, he had a great memory, great days I might add.
Paul Agnes Smith
My model version....
May be an image of train and railroad
Lee-Ann Crampton
Lyn Gibson that wouldn't surprise me that you got up to that
Lyn Gibson
I was born in Dobson and about aged ten or eleven a group of us kids pushed a jigger up and down the line until a car stopped below us then we ran like hell, good fun but….naughty! Lol Lyn Lawson ?
Vern Pattinson
Dad and my to brothers worked there I was there for the closing 1968
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