| Bib ID |
2092024 |
| Format |
Audio [sound recording] , Online - Google Books |
| Author |
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| 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.)
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| Series |
Voices of the bush oral history project
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| 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.
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| 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)
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| Notes |
Recorded with Olya Willis.
Recorded on July 4, 2000 at Lightning Ridge, N.S.W.
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| 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.
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| Occupation |
Child care workers. |
| Other authors/contributors |
Willis, Rob, 1944-, Interviewer | Willis, Olya, Interviewer
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| Related records |
Voices of the bush oral history project
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