Greymouth wharf.ca.1940s.

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DescriptionGreymouth wharf.ca.1940s.

Kevin Brown Collection.
Date of Photo1940`sMap^[1]ContributorBrian Longley

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Location (city or town)GreymouthLandmark (Place)Greymouth WharfOrganisation (eg business)Greymouth Wharf

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Date Created17th August 2019CommentsLenny Crowe Lots of memories working down the bull ring

Gaye Ruru Haven’t things changed over time??

Noeline McCaughan A treat for the four of us during the school holidays was for Mum to take us to the Pelican tea rooms opposite the wharf, we had afternoon tea and could watch the activities on the wharf. We were safe inside and Mum got to rest her feet from shopping.
Arthur Bass
The flood wall got rid of this shunting yard.

Val Whittaker
How the years go I still miss the Coast
and those special memories families and friends

It was natural gas that saw the demise of coal, thats what closed Dobson mine down.

Lorraine O'Donoghue
Heather Newby I was told it closed earlier than planned because the Dobson miners passed a vote of no confidence in the Minister of Mines ( his name slips my mind at present) and in a fit of anger he closed it immediately.
Lorraine O'Donoghue
Heather Newby Jim worked at Dobson at the time and after Shand announced the closure Jim was offered a job in Snowline which he accepted and left Dobson a couple of weeks before closure and because he did the management decided that he was not entitled to the payout that the miners received.

Arthur Bass
When coal was king.
Les Bryce
That's timber they are loading not coal.

Colleen Hoggarth
Tom Shand was his name. All the pillars are still left in the mine

Donald Pearson
Those were the days,busy,busy,busy.

Vern Pattinson
Black gold

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