Shantytown, the authentic re-creation near Greymoiith of a typical West Coast gold-mining settlement of the 1880s now attracts more than 130,000 visitors a year, TOP LEFT? This 1897 locomotive, which was used originally at Kaitangata, shunts passengers in an open carriage up an old logging track through the bush. BOTTOM- LEFT? Visitors try their luck with gold pans, working pay dirt from Shantytown’s sluicing claim., ABOVE: Mr Albert Cooper is one of the town’s old characters with his horse and cart rides. Photographs by LES BLOXHAM
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Press, 31 January 1986, Page 16
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86Shantytown, the authentic re-creation near Greymoiith of a typical West Coast gold-mining settlement of the 1880s now attracts more than 130,000 visitors a year, TOP LEFT? This 1897 locomotive, which was used originally at Kaitangata, shunts passengers in an open carriage up an old logging track through the bush. BOTTOM- LEFT? Visitors try their luck with gold pans, working pay dirt from Shantytown’s sluicing claim., ABOVE: Mr Albert Cooper is one of the town’s old characters with his horse and cart rides. Photographs by LES BLOXHAM Press, 31 January 1986, Page 16
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