IMAGE
Waiuta
- Date
- [ca 1930s]
- Reference
- PAColl-4796-16
- Description
Waiuta township looking south east. Beyond is the poppet head over the Blackwater Mine's south shaft, with the bowling green (built upon waste rock from the mine's workings). The man standing on the left is Joseph Divis. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s.
Source of descriptive information - Notes about bowling green, the south shaft and the dates it operated - from Library client.
Of the south shaft, the four large buildings below the chimney are (from left) blacksmith's shop. Compressor shop. Boiler shop. Winding room. (Information supplied by Derek French in 1968.)
South shaft was 563m vertical, to a point about 100m below sea level. Mining was carried out there from 1906 to 1936 when operations became centered upon the deeper Prohibition shaft a short distance north. (Information from Library client)
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm
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