Group portrait of unidentified children and women at the entrance of a Coalmine, West Coast. ca.1910s-1930s

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DescriptionGroup portrait of unidentified children and women at the entrance of a coal mine, West Coast, South Island. Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera. Ref: 1/2-143737-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/30631602PhotographerEdgar Richard Williams.Date of Photocirca 1910s-1930sMap^[1]ContributorHeather Newby

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Date Created20th November 2023CommentsJock Allen
Oh my god NO Hard Hats wonder where this was

Vern Pattinson
Jock Allen looks like no sets of timber up either Joc

Kerry Molloy
possibly at entrance to coal b rook dale drive in behing denniston incline poppet head .

Heather Newby
Kerry Molloy thanks

Grant Jamieson
School trip, that's me on the right great day out

Heather Newby
Grantcan you give a descriptopn [;eade? where/when/who.. thanks

Lawrence Boul
Grant Jamieson So if the date's right that would make you at least 93 + whatever age the kids are (10+), so somewhere between 103 and 123?

John Clark
Awesome photo!
Carol Ball

Is that denniston
Ceol Mhor NZ
Thats a wide gauge rail track,

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Group portrait of unidentified children and women at the entrance of a Coalmine, West Coast. ca.1910s-1930s