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CommentsPauline Schafer
I wonder what year this was. Brian Kelly do you know?
Pauline Schafer
Brian KellyYes, I agree with you, I'd say way back around the early 1900s, maybe around the same area that the slip was that killed the Cosgrove family in 1906? There is no tree growth on the hills, it's all been cleared. I think there was a church up Drummonds lane but the background doesn't look right for that area.
Tom Hartill
It was the Presbyterian church and the tornado that struck Greymouth in 1906 carried on up the valley causing a lot of damage to buildings. The other half of the church ended up over the road.
Pauline Schafer
Tom Hartill that makes sense Tom. Can you place where it was?
Colman Creagh
It appesrs to br.at the.bottom of Drummonds lane about.where the doctors surgery was lateron
Itlooks like Rocky Island down river in the background of this photo
Bruce Lightfoot
Colman Creagh and just at the apex of the roof u can see coal wagons .so would be the slip area.andover top of the wagons u can see thearea adjacent to Baxter's garage and along that piece along past the pub
Bruce Lightfoot
Colman Creagh what's that 2storery place like u can see what seems tobe Peters place just to the right of it but in the back ground
Bruce Lightfoot
The church behind Katie's house was between her house and Kelly's but high up the hill than kitties the steps are still there
Donna Brydon
it's not the church that was behind Drummonds (my Place) the background isn't right, id say it was closer to Dobson
Pauline Schafer
Trying to place the hills on the left of the photo. They’re so different without trees all over them, and the coal wagons are not far below the road. I should get out my book Disaster at Brunner and compare photos. I found one photo from Wallsend that showed a similar view of Taylorville.
Pauline Schafer
Looking across the river, that’s Taylorville so I would place this church just around the corner of Sullivans creek where the old library and doctors surgery was, maybe. I’ve only looked at this on my phone so I can’t see a slag heap.
Pauline Schafer
Or how about on the same side of the road as Ritchies? If that’s the slag pile in the background
Peter Green
I think you're right Brian. Just north of our place , just above turn off to taylorville
Bruce Lightfoot
Peter Green nah there would be the road up above the coal wagons.its further around near Peters.u can c 2 posts that are to the right of the entrance to the what would later be the coal bins.peters house is shown to the right of the 2 stored building
Pauline Schafer
Peter Green I think you're right Peter, looking at the angle that Taylorville is on, and the shingle in the river. I enlarged the photo on my computer. See the handrail above the wrecked church? Remember there was a hill there before they filled it in when we were kids. And the other building in the very right bottom of the photo would be another mine house/building. Remember all those old house wrecks between the roads towards the brick chimney we played on as kids looking for treasure. I think the house that Bruce thinks is the Peters is more like where our house was or next to it. The 2-story house may well be the Cosgroves that was wrecked in the landslip that killed 7 of the family around 1906/7?
Pauline Schafer
Looking at it this morning in better light (I was up until Midnight), I can see clearly the road to the right of the church which has almost slipped down onto it. So I would place this building on the V of the main road and the station road. That would put that double story house as the Cosgroves, and the house behind that as being next to our house.
Pauline Schafer
That ties in with the photo that Tom Hartill has shared, thanks Tom, what a great photo of it.
Bruce Lightfoot
I recon this is stuffed up that churches superimposed over another photo. The church is real sharp but the buildings to the left and the 2 stored one are blurred as is the foreground of the church.some one has photo shaped it and poorly at that
Tom Hartill
Here is a photo of the church. It was at Brunner not Wallsend.
May be an image of text that says 'THE TERRIBLE LANDSLIP AT GREYMOUTH: VIEW OF BRUNNERTON, SHOWING THE LOCALITY OF THE DISASTER BY WHICH EIGHT LIVES VERE LOST, MAY 1904.'
Pauline Schafer
Thanks Tom, great photo! That's exactly where I pictured it in the end.
Lorraine Margetts
It was the Presbyterian Church in Wallsend. Not far from the mine. I went to Sunday school there every Sunday sometimes I was the only one there with the teacher st Mary Jacobs. It was a wooden building. Sad to see it on pieces.
Colleen Yee
This is from the Greymouth Evening Star, 30 April 1906, p2.
Mary Moffitt
Is that two-storey building the doctor’s house? I remember it being between Wallsend and Brunner.
I wonder what year this was. Brian Kelly do you know?
Pauline Schafer
Brian KellyYes, I agree with you, I'd say way back around the early 1900s, maybe around the same area that the slip was that killed the Cosgrove family in 1906? There is no tree growth on the hills, it's all been cleared. I think there was a church up Drummonds lane but the background doesn't look right for that area.
Tom Hartill
It was the Presbyterian church and the tornado that struck Greymouth in 1906 carried on up the valley causing a lot of damage to buildings. The other half of the church ended up over the road.
Pauline Schafer
Tom Hartill that makes sense Tom. Can you place where it was?
Colman Creagh
It appesrs to br.at the.bottom of Drummonds lane about.where the doctors surgery was lateron
Itlooks like Rocky Island down river in the background of this photo
Bruce Lightfoot
Colman Creagh and just at the apex of the roof u can see coal wagons .so would be the slip area.andover top of the wagons u can see thearea adjacent to Baxter's garage and along that piece along past the pub
Bruce Lightfoot
Colman Creagh what's that 2storery place like u can see what seems tobe Peters place just to the right of it but in the back ground
Bruce Lightfoot
The church behind Katie's house was between her house and Kelly's but high up the hill than kitties the steps are still there
Donna Brydon
it's not the church that was behind Drummonds (my Place) the background isn't right, id say it was closer to Dobson
Pauline Schafer
Trying to place the hills on the left of the photo. They’re so different without trees all over them, and the coal wagons are not far below the road. I should get out my book Disaster at Brunner and compare photos. I found one photo from Wallsend that showed a similar view of Taylorville.
Pauline Schafer
Looking across the river, that’s Taylorville so I would place this church just around the corner of Sullivans creek where the old library and doctors surgery was, maybe. I’ve only looked at this on my phone so I can’t see a slag heap.
Pauline Schafer
Or how about on the same side of the road as Ritchies? If that’s the slag pile in the background
Peter Green
I think you're right Brian. Just north of our place , just above turn off to taylorville
Bruce Lightfoot
Peter Green nah there would be the road up above the coal wagons.its further around near Peters.u can c 2 posts that are to the right of the entrance to the what would later be the coal bins.peters house is shown to the right of the 2 stored building
Pauline Schafer
Peter Green I think you're right Peter, looking at the angle that Taylorville is on, and the shingle in the river. I enlarged the photo on my computer. See the handrail above the wrecked church? Remember there was a hill there before they filled it in when we were kids. And the other building in the very right bottom of the photo would be another mine house/building. Remember all those old house wrecks between the roads towards the brick chimney we played on as kids looking for treasure. I think the house that Bruce thinks is the Peters is more like where our house was or next to it. The 2-story house may well be the Cosgroves that was wrecked in the landslip that killed 7 of the family around 1906/7?
Pauline Schafer
Looking at it this morning in better light (I was up until Midnight), I can see clearly the road to the right of the church which has almost slipped down onto it. So I would place this building on the V of the main road and the station road. That would put that double story house as the Cosgroves, and the house behind that as being next to our house.
Pauline Schafer
That ties in with the photo that Tom Hartill has shared, thanks Tom, what a great photo of it.
Bruce Lightfoot
I recon this is stuffed up that churches superimposed over another photo. The church is real sharp but the buildings to the left and the 2 stored one are blurred as is the foreground of the church.some one has photo shaped it and poorly at that
Tom Hartill
Here is a photo of the church. It was at Brunner not Wallsend.
May be an image of text that says 'THE TERRIBLE LANDSLIP AT GREYMOUTH: VIEW OF BRUNNERTON, SHOWING THE LOCALITY OF THE DISASTER BY WHICH EIGHT LIVES VERE LOST, MAY 1904.'
Pauline Schafer
Thanks Tom, great photo! That's exactly where I pictured it in the end.
Lorraine Margetts
It was the Presbyterian Church in Wallsend. Not far from the mine. I went to Sunday school there every Sunday sometimes I was the only one there with the teacher st Mary Jacobs. It was a wooden building. Sad to see it on pieces.
Colleen Yee
This is from the Greymouth Evening Star, 30 April 1906, p2.
Mary Moffitt
Is that two-storey building the doctor’s house? I remember it being between Wallsend and Brunner.
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