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Bailey, Sue :Postcards of New Zealand from the collection of Professor Colin L Bailey
Date: ca1900-1956
By: Bailey, Colin Lennie, 1906-1997; Bailey, Sue, active 1998
Reference: PAColl-6025
Description: Views of Westport, Denniston, Blackball, Ngakawau, Millerton, Inangahua Junction, Seddonville, Dunedin, Gore, Milford Sound, Greymouth and Taupo Quantity: 10 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 12 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. Provenance: The late Professor C L Bailey, from the VUW Department of Education, collected photographs and other items relating to New Zealand history from members of the public.
Creator unknown :Photographs of West Coast Schools
Date: [ca 1910]
Reference: PAColl-6472
Description: The collection consists of 36 images of West Coast schools, 6 of schools in other areas, 3 of views of other areas and a further 11 images of the tour party themselves and the cars they travelled in. The photographer is unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-002832 to 1/4-002887 Quantity: 56 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives
David Luke album 2
Date: 1940s to 1950s
From: Luke, David M fl 1950- :Photographic albums, negatives, colour slides and prints
Reference: PA1-o-273
Description: Album of photographs relating to historian David M Luke, including family and friends, and various trips around New Zealand. Names listed above are of people identified in the album. A number of sequences show a Yorkshire (?) terrier named Buff. David Luke lived at 84 Bolton Street for many years, and a number of photographs are taken inside the house and in the garden. Another house which is photographed inside and out is at 62 Golders Road, Upper Hutt. Several images show Dean Gibson, at 84 Bolton Street, and at the Deanery. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, entitled `Photographs'; 27.5 x 35.0 cm
Newspaper extract re Millerton tragedy
Date: 7 Jul 1932
From: Denniston Coal Miners Industrial Union of Workers : Miscellaneous records
Reference: MS-Papers-0541-7
Description: Extract from the Grey River Argus, 7 Jul 1932 re the Millerton tragedy and gas dangers in mines Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: Access restrictions removed April 2023.
Hughson, W G :Photographs of coal mining in New Zealand
Date: 1930 - ca 1950
By: Hughson, W G, active 1930s-1950s; Robertson, I G, -1995
Reference: PA1-q-380
Description: 140 photographs providing a survey of coal mines mining processes and working conditions Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
You don't scab, you don't crawl - Notes relating to Bobby Closs
Date: Jun 1997
From: Garland, Phil, 1942-2017: Papers and recordings
Reference: MS-Papers-11839-068
Description: Collation of notes by Peter Lusk concerning the life of West Coast coal miner and trade unionist, Bobby Closs, including quotations from books, letters and conversations with Closs. The typescript has been printed from the website www.labournet.org. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript
Lightbown, Diane fl 1983-1993 : Papers relating to Denniston and Millerton area
Date: 1983
By: Lightbown, Diane, active 1983-1993
Reference: MS-Papers-4832
Description: Consists of a paper prepard by Sonia and Terry Sumner for the Nelson Lands and Survey Department titled `Coalfields park report' which gives historical background about the Denniston and Millerton area settlements and coal fields and describes what is left or operating today. Also includes notes giving details of who the police officers in the district have been and a list of miners killed in the area. Source of title - supplied title Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.06 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and photographs (photocopies)
Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs of Buller County
Date: ca 1900
Reference: PAColl-7409
Description: Printed photographs of the waterfall at Millerton, coal trucks on the mine railway passing through Millerton, and Burnett's Face coal mine. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).
Creator of collection unknown :Photographs of coalmining scenes, Westland, ca 1911-1920
Date: 1910 - 1920
By: Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?
Reference: PAColl-4123
Description: Boys with ponies, Millerton; Ngakawau Bins, Stockton; stoking coke furnace, Granity; and H T Lock photograph of powerhouse, Mine Creek. Quantity: 4 b&w copy photographic print(s) in one envelope.
G Parkhouse (Firm, Westport) :Millerton, N.Z. New Zealand post card, issued by G Parkho...
Date: 1910
From: [Postcards of the Wesport and Buller area, collected by William Robert Jones. 1900-1970s]
By: G Parkhouse (Firm)
Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Jones-03
Description: Photograph on postcard shows a general view of the mining town of Millerton, with a view along the Millerton Incline rail track carrying coal trucks. There is a large hall in the right background. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph on postcard, 89 x 139 mm.
Millerton township
From: Couchman, Gary :Photographs of coalmining in New Zealand
Reference: 1/2-080261-F
Description: Looking across Millerton township showing houses and other buildings. Photograph taken before the post office was built. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Lock, Henry Thomas, fl 1885-1910? :Main rope road, Westport Coal Company works, Millert...
Date: [ca 1903]
By: Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; New Zealand. Mines Department
Reference: PAColl-D-0806
Description: View of the main rope road at the Westport Coal Company works at Millerton. Photograph taken by H T Lock, ca 1903 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Main rope road W.C.C. works Millerton H.T.L. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 280 x 390 mm with mount 350 x 555 mm
State primary school, Millerton
Date: [ca 1910]
From: Creator unknown :Photographs of West Coast Schools
Reference: 1/4-002850-G
Description: Looking through a fence to a state primary school at Millerton circa 1910. Two cars and a group are on the left. This building burnt down in the 1940s Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Township of Millerton
Date: [ca 1910]
From: West Coast Historical and Mechanical Society : Photographs
Reference: 1/2-096858-F
Description: Township of Millerton, circa 1910. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Millerton settlement
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-000701-G
Description: Millerton township. Photograph taken by William A Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Millerton. No 1878B Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative
Millerton settlement
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-000702-F
Description: Millerton township. Photograph taken by William A Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Millerton. No 1877B Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative
Reminiscence of childhood life in Millerton
Date: 2011
From: Temby, Dorothy, 1913-2009 : Reminiscence of childhood life in Millerton
Reference: MSDL-1354
Description: Collection comprises a childhood memoir complied by Temby at a later point in her life in England. The reminiscence recalls her family home in the West Coast mining town Millerton circa 1918; attending the Scottish Methodist Church on Sundays; childhood adventures in the sea and bush; Christmas at Mokanui; and a recollection of the day the Temby family left Millerton to return to England. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). 4 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s).
Millerton track
By: Denniston Coal Miners' Industrial Union of Workers; Miller, Bill, active 1960-1977
Reference: 1/2-048995-F
Description: Millerton track winding up a hill on the West Coast. Also visible (centre left) are 2 coal wagons travelling along railway tracks. The sea and some houses are in the background. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).
Millerton township
Date: [190-?]
From: Couchman, Gary :Photographs of coalmining in New Zealand
By: Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?
Reference: 1/2-080265-F
Description: Millerton township showing main rope roads, dwellings, and railway tracks. Coal bins are in the foreground. Photograph taken circa 1900-1909 by Henry Thomas Lock. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Dated from information in Norman Crawshaw, From clouds to sea: 100 years of coal from Millerton and Stockton ([Westport, N.Z.] : Coal New Zealand, 1998) p 11 and 12 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Main rope roads WCC Works Millerton HTL Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Coalmining town of Millerton, West Coast
Date: [190-?]
From: Couchman, Gary :Photographs of coalmining in New Zealand
Reference: 1/2-080267-F
Description: Coalmining town of Millerton, West Coast, 190-? Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative