Cool Underground Tunnel and Nanaimo's Old Mine Shafts

[GR74]

BigMac your are right, that's Black Jack Ridge in the background with Mt. Benson. You can still find rusty junk and track laying around out there if you look hard enough. My hiking experience this year through the clear cut has given me an opportunity to see the true layout of the land and ridges without the trees obstructing my view, so I understand the location of the photos a bit better.

AllieG good luck with those negatives. Hopefully your grandfather took some pictures of the electric train!

[riverrat]

AllieG, please let us know if there is anything we can do to help you to develop those photos. I can donate time or money...

[AllieG]

Thanks RR. I'll let you know what we find once sis has got hold of the negatives. Some of them are starting to deteriorate so we want to at least get them out of harm's way. It may turn out that none of them are of any interest (I have a feeling there are lots of scenery shots) but we'll be donating some to the archives/museum if we find anything of importance. We thought we also might try to find a collector who we could donate the negatives to in exchange for restoration/development.

What we'd REALLY like to do is find someone who wants to organise a Harewood Museum (old Harewood School would be ideal, but unlikely) but I know that's just a pipe dream.

[gwyneth]

A cousin to the Frozen Donkey Wheel on LOST?
Did you try to turn it?

Ironwork of a mine fan, most definitely. Could have come from either a Guibal fan or a Sirocco fan; in either case, very old (late 1800s).

-- gwyneth

[GR74]

Here's a few photos taken last Friday during my journey through Wellington. Or should I say Ye Olde Wellington? Anyways I thought they'd be a nice addition to this thread. I will take more next time I am out that way. Thanks again friend.

[GR74]

Here's some wheels and a coal car, taken Friday.

[GR74]

Say, that's a nice bike! :P

[AceMcCool]

Where is this? Is that a tunnel in some one's back yard?

[GR74]

I guess that's part of a tunnel in somebody's back yard I think you already know the spot Ace.

[GR74]

Legend has it that the locomotive Duke never left Nanaimo and it is still here, buried somewhere in the hills...