Blacks Point Museum

Part of the tour to Reefton included a visit to this museum. It was packed with memorabilia from the gold rush days of the late 19th and early 20th centuries including a model of the stamping machine that crushed the rock to free the gold.


L Later we left the museum to go see the actual Stamper Machines that had been used in the nearby mine.  For demonstrating it is still operable and we were able to see how it worked.  Mining was very, very hard work regardless of what job you performed in the mine.


I don't think either of us had ever seen a museum with quite so much "stuff!"


This amazing outfit was hand knit of merino wool shortly after the dyeing of this wool became fashionable. As a knitter I really admired the workmanship. It was hand made over 70-80 years ago.





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