page_title: Denniston, New Zealand
section_title: Burnett's Face
hierarchical_section_title: Denniston, New Zealand / History / The townships and people / Burnett's Face
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking down over the coal mining township of Burnett's Face. The cable roperoad for carrying coal trucks from the mines near Burnett's Face to the brakehead at Deeniston can be seen passing through the town. The road to Denniston winds up the hill on the right. Photographed by William Archer Price, circa 1910 Inscriptions: Inscribed - Photographer's title on negative -bottom right: Burnett's Face. 1863.B. Quantity: 1 b&amp;w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative The coal-mining settlement of Burnett's Face, near Denniston. Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives. Ref: 1/2-001899-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. natlib.govt.nz/records/22873908
context_page_description: Denniston is a small settlement, 15 kilometres east of Westport, on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It is situated on an exposed rocky plateau, 600 metres above sea level, in the Papahaua Ranges.
  During the first few decades of the 20th Century, up to 1400 people lived in the townships on the Denniston Plateau to service the large coal mines there. Coal was transported in railway wagons from the plateau via the Denniston Incline to Conns Creek, where steam locomotives of New Zealand Railways took coal trains to the port of Westport.
  The Denniston Incline closed in 1967. The plateau now has a population of fewer than 10 people, and virtually all the buildings and structures have gone, although many historical relics remain – scattered throughout the plateau and incline area amongst the scrub vegetation.
  There are proposals for future mining on the Denniston Plateau.
context_section_description: The development of the Ironbridge Mine led to the establishment of the settlement known as Burnett's Face, about 2 kilometres southeast from Denniston. It was initially a cluster of tents, but by 1891 there were wooden cottages, a school, two hotels, a butchery, a bakery, several stores, two halls, and two billiard saloons. Its main road was the constantly running roperoad skipway linking the mine with the bins at the head of the Denniston Incline. By the 1950s, little remained of the settlement.
caption: The coal-mining settlement of Burnett's Face (circa 1910)
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