Visiting Strongman underground coal mine on a school trip

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DescriptionBack in the day when you could take your grand kids to work for the day ? I remember it well, Bill Dalzell (grandad) taking us Troy Dando - Shaun Dando) to the coal face in Strongman Mine. Raiding the coal sack for the crib box, feeding the eels in the raceways. Simple times but good times. About 1974?ContributorTroy Dando

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CommentsAlan Mitchell
Thats how Kids lernt how the world worked by entering work places like this. OSH and all the fun police have stop all that now days thats why a very lot of young people of the today are clueless on the workings of a very lot of industrys.

John Pearce
Alan Mitchell yes I agree

Mick Haines
That how I remember the dando boys in Nelson 75 76 maybe ?merry Xmas cuzzies ❤️❤️

Lyn Carroll
I remember Ag and Bill well . Out at Punakiki at my Grandparents Gill and Vera Stenhouses batch

Craig Jarden
ag and bill were a big part of our youth.
can you remember the hand shaped patchs on ags pants

Lyn Carroll
I remember going in the mine I think was it the 10mile with my dad John Stenhouse. Also feeding the horses that worked in there too

Nikki Smith
I remember taking a group of university students on an arranged mine tour of the Strongman about this date.

Lyn Carroll
I remember Ag and Bill well . Out at Punakiki at my Grandparents Gill and Vera Stenhouses batch

Alan Mitchell
Thats how Kids lernt how the world worked by entering work places like this. OSH and all the fun police have stop all that now days thats why a very lot of young people of the today are clueless on the workings of a very lot of industrys.

Lyn Carroll
I remember going in the mine I think was it the 10mile with my dad John Stenhouse. Also feeding the horses that worked in there too

Craig Jarden
ag and bill were a big part of our youth.
can you remember the hand shaped patchs on ags pants

Nikki Smith
I remember taking a group of university students on an arranged mine tour of the Strongman about this date.

Deb Ramage
Wonderful, my old man got us down on an incline at Denniston, 1960's. Wonderful, ps he survived Strongman.

Wayne Nicholson
Remember well my trips down Dobson Mine with my grandad, Joe Nicholson

Mick Haines
That how I remember the dando boys in Nelson 75 76 maybe ?merry Xmas cuzzies ❤️❤️

Colin J Wilson
Troy, the Managers name above the portal “H. W. Bell.” Would that have been Harry Bell, who now lives in Motueka.

Val Willis
We need a cousin reunion for sure!

Deane Macartney
Early 50's taken down the Blackball mine. Had to hide round a corner whie a charge was set off and was taught how to relight the carbide lamp after the explosion. I think I was 12 or 13. Great experience! Elf and Safety would have a fit today.

Kirk Neilson
Great pic of a great place. You had to be 12 to go down the mine for a vist. Dad, Les Neilson took me to work down Liverpool#3 in 1982, followed by several jaunts down Strongman#1 where in 1990 i started my underground coal mining career.
Wish they were still open as my Deputies and Underviewers tickets are still live and ready for action!

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