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Kōrero: Coal and coal mining

Miners’ pub, Denniston

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Miners’ pub, Denniston

Denniston miners enjoy a few beers at one of the three pubs in the township in the 1940s. Poor housing and uncomfortable working conditions encouraged miners to go to pubs where the temperature was warm and the conversation flowed.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)

Reference: 1/4-001245;F

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Alan Sherwood rāua ko Jock Phillips, Coal and coal mining – Mining community, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/7466/miners-pub-denniston (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Alan Sherwood rāua ko Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.