# The Blackball Bathhouse - 'A Cathedral of Nudes'

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Language: en

Published: 2021-04-13T04:46:38+00:00

Source creator: Rob Edwards

Duration: 169 seconds

## Description

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.


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