Denniston Incline

Date: ca1905

From: Humphreys, W :Photographs of the Westport Coal Company's operation at Denniston

Reference: PA1-o-990

Description: The images begin at the foot of the incline where the coal trucks joined the railway head at Conns Creek Yards. There are views up the incline and down it from the top, and two views of the breakhead which was the top terminal of the incline at Denniston. The album then has views of the trucks coming and going along the double cable roperoad railway which brought loaded trucks from the mines near Burnetts Face to the breakhead, and returned the empties for refilling. Some of these views include the industrial buildings and bridges crossed by the railway, including wooden bridge and a steel trestle bridge. There is also an image of the iron bridge which crossed the Waimangaroa River and took the coal trucks to the Iron Bridge mine. One image shows a compressor engine which pumped air into the mines, another is a close up of a cascade fan used for ventalating mines. The final image is of Burnetts Face, which was the other community associated with the Westport Coal Company's opperation at this time Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1905]

From: Humphreys, W :Photographs of the Westport Coal Company's operation at Denniston

Reference: PA1-o-991

Description: The album opens with a photograph of a locomotive used in shunting coal trucks. This is followed by three images of Denniston incline seen from a distance, a view of Conns Creek Yards and another of the breakhead which was the top incline terminal at Denniston. There are images of the double cable roperoad railway crossing an iron trestle bridge with coal trucks on their way to and from the mines to the incline. The album also contains three images of a model of the iron trestle bridge constructed for the Westport Coal Company. One section of the album contains seven images of the Township of Denniston. There are views of the town seen from a distance on the edge of the plateau. Other views show the the basic rather primitive character of the place - many simple weatherboard cottages without gardens or fences among the ruined stumps of native trees in a town with few formed streets. Two other images are of Burnett's Face and industrial buildings at wooden bridge Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca1940

From: Lewers, Neville Robert, 1913- :Photographic negatives, transparencies and prints

Reference: PAColl-6180-03

Description: Quantity: 77 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1900s]

By: Bowling, M C, active 1900s

Reference: PAColl-D-0440

Description: Close up photograph of the remains of the brake drum at the Denniston Incline. Photograph was possibly entered in a photographic competition (Class 5). Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Title and name of photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 315 x 480 mm

Date: 1880 - 1890

By: Muntz, Charles Adolphus, 1834-1908

Reference: B-198-001

Description: A view of the lower section of the Denniston Incline, where it finishes at Conns Creek. The creek can be seen wending its way in the foreground. The scene was probably painted in the 1880s, within the first ten years of the coal mine's establishment, as the dense bush still looks relatively uninterrupted. Two small buildings can also be seen in the foreground of the painting Incorrectly identified by auction house as 'Mountainous goldmine' (Cordy's catalogue for 20 January auction, p.25). Location and date not identified Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Muntz [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 295 x 445 mm

Date: 1972 - 1979

From: Price, Nina, 1953- :[Lino cuts, biro drawings and a painted cardboard model of a house, relating to Denniston, West Coast. 1972-1979]

Reference: A-460-006

Description: A scene showing part of the once-operational coal mine at the top of the Denniston incline, comprising buildings of varying sizes Denniston incline was recognised the world over as a remarkable feat of engineering. Linking Denniston with the Conns Creek rail head below, the incline fell 510 metres over 1.7 kilometres in two sections, incorporating dramatically steep gradients. (http://www.dennistonmineexperience.co.nz/history) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Linocut, hand-coloured, 210 x 285 mm on paper 295 x 360 mm

Date: 1972 - 1979

From: Price, Nina, 1953- :[Lino cuts, biro drawings and a painted cardboard model of a house, relating to Denniston, West Coast. 1972-1979]

Reference: A-460-016

Description: A scene showing part of the once-operational coal mine at the top of the Denniston incline, comprising buildings of varying sizes. Three or four derailed sorting bins are seen in the foreground, bottom right Denniston incline was recognised the world over as a remarkable feat of engineering. Linking Denniston with the Conns Creek rail head below, the incline fell 510 metres over 1.7 kilometres in two sections, incorporating dramatically steep gradients. (http://www.dennistonmineexperience.co.nz/history) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Linocut, 237 x 280 mm on paper 250 x 295 mm

Date: 1972 - 1979

From: Price, Nina, 1953- :[Lino cuts, biro drawings and a painted cardboard model of a house, relating to Denniston, West Coast. 1972-1979]

Reference: A-460-014

Description: A scene showing a mine worker wearing a hard-hat, watching on as a line of coal wagons head down from the top of the Dennsiston mine Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Linocut, 170 x 235 mm on paper 291 x 363 mm

Date: [ca 1940-1950s]

By: Langwood Studio; Jones, William Robert, 1930-2009

Reference: PAColl-9756

Description: Photographs relating to interest in Buller and district history, compiled by William Robert Jones (1930-2009). Includes family portraits, individual portraits, actor portraits, cityscapes of towns (probably on the West Coast), landscapes, and photographs of coal mining activity. Also includes loose album pages from Rona Cuthall (later David), relating to Westport dramatic productions. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). 19 album leaves with 69 images. Physical Description: Photographs Provenance: Donated by Helen Jones, Upper Hutt, 2010 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive; material transferred to other sections from here - To Ephemera Collection - Programmes and postcards - To Book Collections - To Published Collections: Various publications on West Coast history (PR-10-0245, PR-10-0246, PR-10-0247) - To Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1878 : Papers relating to West Coast history.

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-006738-G

Description: Break head at the top terminal of the Denniston Incline, Denniston, West Coast region, photographed circa 1910, by Cullum and Company. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Break Head. Denniston. Cullum and Co2 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1945]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-001332-F

Description: School children (from Denniston School?), and teacher, during a nature lesson, Denniston Incline, West Coast. Photograph taken circa 1945 by John Pascoe. Other - Pascoe's heading from the Photographic Archive file at 6/1/30, for the set of photographs at 1/4-001320 to 001339 reads: "School for Miners' children" Caption - Caption with Pascoe file at 6/1/30 in Photographic Archive reads: "A class out for a nature lesson. In the background their fathers' bread and butter (a truck full of coal) whizzes down the Denniston incline." Source of descriptive information - Pascoe's notes in Pascoe backfile held in Photographic Archive. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Celulosic negative, 5.5 x 5.5 cm

Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]

From: Ring album 1

Reference: PA1-o-435-50

Description: The Westport Coal Company's Denniston Incline, photographed by James Ring circa 1880s-1890s. Source of descriptive information - Denniston Incline recognised by cataloguer. Date approximated by cataloguer. Other Titles - Incline to Westport mine NZ Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Incline to Wesport mine NZ 403 JR Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 13.4 x 20.2 cm, on album page

Date: Apr 1947

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-06790-F

Description: Aerial view of Denniston, West Coast region, April 1947. The Incline is in the foreground. Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Incline recognised by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 10.9 x 13.2 cm

Date: [ca 1900]

From: West Coast Historical and Mechanical Society : Photographs

Reference: 1/2-091658-F

Description: Brake head works, Denniston Incline, circa 1900. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Denniston Incline recognised by Library client, March 2007 Inscriptions: On original postcard: Brake head works Denniston Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [between 1900-1930]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001888-G

Description: The brake head at the top of the Denniston Incline, circa 1910, photographed by William Archer Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Brake Head. Denniston 2221 B Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [circa 1900s-1930s]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/4-055917-G

Description: Photograph taken by William Williams or Edgar Richard Williams. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Photographer identified by Curatorial Services Leader John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [circa 1900s-1930s]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/4-055918-G

Description: Photograph taken by William Williams or Edgar Richard Williams. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Photographer identified by Curatorial Services Leader John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [circa 1910s-1930s]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/2-144353-F

Description: View from near Denniston looking down across the Denniston Incline to the settlement of Waimangaroa in the distance and showing the Waimangaroa River winding toward the coast.Photograph taken by Edgar Richard Williams. Location identified by researcher February 2021. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Photographer identified by Curatorial Services Leader John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Stereographic film negative

Date: [circa 1920s-1930s]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/2-144339-F

Description: Photograph taken by Edgar Richard Williams. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Photographer identified by Curatorial Services Leader John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Stereographic film negative

Date: 1859 - 1889

By: Dyson, (Mrs), active 1958; Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?

Reference: PAColl-2077

Description: Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Prints housed at PAColl-2077-1, PAColl-4294, PAColl-4346. Quantity: 1 album(s). 25 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Transfers: PAColl-6304-58.