The Blackball Bathhouse - 'A Cathedral of Nudes'

The Blackball bathhouse was built in 1917, 'gained through union agitation', for the miners. All that remains today are the concrete bones and echoes of a past era. Poet and writer Jeffrey Paparoa Holman reads his sonnet about the bathhouse which celebrates the spirit of West Coast miners and recalls childhood memories. More about Jeffrey Holman: https://www.read-nz.org/writer/holman-jeffrey/ About the video: https://lifeform.co.nz/the-blackball-bathhouse/ About Blackball, West Coast NZ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackball,_New_Zealand https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/11524 About the Blackball mine: https://www.doc.govt.nz/globalassets/documents/conservation/historic/by-region/west-coast/blackball-coal-mine-historic-inspection-and-workplan.pdf Image at start: West Coast New Zealand History (25th Nov 2020). 'Blackball mine looking towards the bath house.' From Website West Coast New Zealand History. Retrieved Mar 2021, from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/6976 Jeffrey Paparoa Holman's website: https://paparoa.wordpress.com/ Sonnet xxxi is from his book: The Late Great Blackball Bridge Sonnets, Steel Roberts, 2004. If you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like! #Blackball #WestCoast #NZ