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Marianne Webb interviewed by Rob Willis for the Voices of the bush oral history project [sound recording]
Bib ID 2092024
Format AudioAudio [sound recording]
Author
Webb, Marianne, 1951-, Interviewee
 
Access Conditions Access open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. 
Description 2000 
1 digital audio tape (ca. 50 min.) 
Series

Voices of the bush oral history project

Summary

Folkloric recording. Marianne Webb, a childcare manager, was born in 1951 at Lightning Ridge, N.S.W., discusses her life, community life in Lightning Ridge and recites bush poetry. She recalls her parents's background; her father's experience as a POW at Changi; the importance placed on a Catholic education; early days at Lightning Ridge; burr cutting as children; difficulty in making a living off the farm; having branched out into tourism and established a caravan park; the discovery of more mining fields; the puddling dams containing the slurry vegetation being destroyed. She speaks about the Western Lands Lease; compensation for their loss of land; 1960s mining boom; method of mining changing from digging to drilling; auger drills; people on the fields; cheap accommodation; schooling by correspondence school; how they shared a governess with another family and gives a description of lessons; family dances; family recreation, playing Fly; boarding school at Warren; public schooling at the Ridge.

Webb recalls returning home and running the property and the caravan park; multiculturalism coming to Lightning Ridge, no friction despite the numerous cultures; no class structure evident at the Ridge; nationalities; Aboriginals in the area and the growing unrest.

Full contents
  • Recitation: fragment of Little Jika Jika (poem)
  • fragment of Five little rabbits (poem)
  • repeat of Little Jika Jika (poem)
  • fragments of other poems (unidentified)
 
Notes

Recorded with Olya Willis.

Recorded on July 4, 2000 at Lightning Ridge, N.S.W.

Index/Finding Aid Note Timed summary (2 p.) 
Subjects Webb, Marianne, - 1951- - Interviews.  |  Child care workers - New South Wales - Lightning Ridge - Interviews.  |  Miners - New South Wales - Lightning Ridge - Social conditions.  |  Miners - New South Wales - Lightning Ridge - Economic conditions.  |  Community life - New South Wales - Lightning Ridge.
Occupation Child care workers.
Other authors/contributors Willis, Rob, 1944-, Interviewer  |  Willis, Olya, Interviewer

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    Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
    ORAL TRC 4572/31 (summary)
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