Loading coal into a ship at Greymouth wharf .1951.

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DescriptionI am picking that this is a shot of loading coal into a ship at Greymouth warf taken in 1951.
As my father was a crane driver at the time, I would say it's one he took from inside the crane cockpit.
At the time, they were the old hydraulic cranes and I remember him saying that the worst part of the job was having to climb out to the end of the gib to lubricate the cable wheel.
With health and safety in mind, the gib was swung out over the river so there was to be a river landing rather than a warf landing if he was to fall offDate of Photo1951Map^[1]Contributor Steve Fitz-Gerald‎

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Location (city or town)GreymouthGrey RiverEventView from Greymouth port craneLoading coal into ship

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Category TagCoal MiningShipping

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Date Created1st January 2020CommentsBrian Beban Is that Jack Doyle closest to the H2O ?

Phil Wright
The 51' strike cannot be far away,a wharfie mate of mine said that even in the 70s any scabs sons or relations of scabs could never get get any seagulling work for years,the bad blood ran strong...

Rex Anthony Knight
Phil Wright Lockout.

Richard Butcher
My uncle Bert Dixon also worked on the cranes in those days.

John Pearce
Great picture

Ron Johnson
I remember in the late 50's when Dad was the Morris agent in Greymouth the empty coal boats would be loaded with new Morris cars and brought back to Greymouth. They would be unloaded on the wharf and we park them in a big yard and a team would come over from ChCh and drive them over there.

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Loading coal into a ship at Greymouth wharf .1951.

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