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The Reefs, up the Right Branch of Skippers Creek, where a quartz battery ran on hydro-electricity from March 1886.

Sepia photograph of about forty bearded miners in hats and waistcoats, standing and sitting on the ground in front of a timber mine entrance and headframe, two dogs among them — Quartz miners at the Phoenix Mine at Bullendale in 1892. Lakes District Museum EL0963.

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Story · Gold Discoveries and the Gold Industry
Electricity at Bullendale
Two three-ton dynamos went up the Skippers pack track behind bullocks, and from March 1886 a quartz battery six miles beyond the road ran on hydro-electricity.

In the Courier index

Magazine articles in Issue 114, 2025

Bullendale, p. 4 Southberg, Helen, 64 years from Bullendale goldmining to Frankton tourism
Bullendale, p. 11 Growing up in Bullendale 1890-1901 by Margareg Glennie

Magazine articles in Issue 108, 2022

Bullendale Dynamo, p. 23 Pioneering electricity, and the Whakatipu Heritage Trust’s restoration project by Marion Borrell
Bullendale Dynamo, p. 31 An angry cow at the Dynamo Powerhouse from the Lake Wakatip Mail 1886

Magazine articles in Issue 47, 1991

Ambulance-Bullendale, p. 12 Detailed account of the Skippers-Frankton Hospital Ambulance by Owen Genty-Nott
Bullendale, p. 12 Ambulance. Detailed account of the Skippers-Frankton Hospital Ambulance by Owen Genty-Nott

Magazine articles in Issue 35, 1985

Bullendale, p. 4 Phoenix Mine: Newspaper extracts concerning events at the mine between 5 Feb1886 - Oct1886
Bullendale, p. 6 Life at Bullendale: 1st instalment of Patricks early years first at Bullendale and later Skippers.

Magazine articles in Issue 33, 1984

Bullendale, p. 10 Phoenix Mine: Hydro-Electricity at the Phoenix Mine

Magazine articles in Issue 21, 1978

Bullendale, p. 4 Mining. Also known as "The Reefs" or "Skippers Reefs" by Peter Chandler. Continuation from Issue 19, page 6
Bullendale, p. 4 Also known as "The Reefs" or "Skippers Reefs" by Peter Chandler. Continuation from Issue 19, page 6

Magazine articles in Issue 19, 1977

Bullendale, p. 6 Also known as "The Reefs" or "Skippers Reefs" by Peter Chandler. Detailed history.

Magazine articles in Issue 18, 1976

Bullendale, p. 6 Mining. Bullendale showed the way. History of the Phoenix Mine, Bullendale
Bullendale, p. 2 Mining."Prosperity to Oblivion". Article by Mrs M Glennie (nee Hughes) who spent her childhood in Bullendale
Bullendale, p. 6 Bullendale showed the way. History of the Phoenix Mine, Bullendale

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