Shantytown near Greymouth is always an interesting place to stop.
Some neat stuff to see.   Another old post. Enjoy

This was a great way to spend a day when I suspected that it might another tourist tatty type of setup but it was anything but. We spent a good few hours looking over the various bits of old furniture, clothing, printing equipment used by the Greymouth Star, old houses, a ride on a steam train and much much more.
After checking out a water powered stamping battery, after a small wait, we were on a steam train to check out a sawmill 1k up in the hills.

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Fascinating to see the steam engines setup expressly for pulling logs out of the hills and one was operated by two pre teen brothers.

After this, we walked down through a gold mining town largely built of corrugated iron with a pub, a gold mining merchant and some houses.

We stopped for lunch in a reasonably priced cafe in the village and moved in to the town hotel, the church, the newspaper office, Hannah’s shoe shop, and a hospital. I’ll let the pictures tell the story from here but it was a well spent several hours and well worth doing if you’re in area – 10ks south of Greymouth