Bathhouse ruins of abandoned Mine, Millerton.

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DescriptionWayne Hall.."My Grandfather Tom Grace looked after the bath house and lamp house at the Millerton mine in the late 1940s and 1950s. He had lost the sight of an eye in a mine accident. He was from Tasmania so was called Tassie. In the 1940s he was secretary of the miners union. He was married to Mildred McCallum and had 3 children..Fay,Verna, and Terry. The McCallum family lived below Peggy's pub. Terry Grace was a teacher in the Buller and Nelson area. I remember all the miners work clothes hanging up in the bath house ceiling. Very damp with all the showers. Huge building. Dam next door and above the
bath house was the lamp house. Miners lamps were recharged after work."

The Millerton Mine began production in 1896, and ended in the late 1960s.The Millerton Incline was a narrow gauge (2 ft or 610 mm) incline consisting of two parallel sets of tracks on which the coal tubs ran, being hauled by rope. The Millerton Incline was a significant engineering achievement for its time.Millerton has a population of approx 30-40.

The Hon. William McIntyre from Millerton was a member of the Legislative Council from 1921 until he died in 1949, and was known as the Father of the Upper House. A miner from Scotland, he (with his brother) set a record for the coal mined in one shift at the Millerton Mine.

The Millerton football (soccer) club, known as the Millerton All Blacks, were twice runners-up in the Chatham Cup, New Zealand's knockout football competition, in 1932 and 1933.

Millerton had its own Lodge of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (Lookout Lodge No 127 of the R.A.O.B. NZ Constitution of the Grand Lodge of England). The Lodge was opened in 1950 and closed sometime in the mid-1980s.

See "external Link" below to read more...Date of Photo1896-1960`sMap^[1]External LinkMilerton-Wiki

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Location (city or town)MillertonLandmark (Place)Millerton Mine

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Category TagCoal Mining

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CommentsMark Boon Great photo. I've been up there in pouring rain! Definitely added to the trip up there... The stories those walls could tell!

Richard Byrne Work there as a rope boy and underground

John Paget I had a beer in the pub before it closed. Would have been in th e seventies.

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Bathhouse ruins of abandoned Mine, Millerton.

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