Greg Willoughby interviewed by Bruce Simpson and Bill Gammage in the Drovers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3705966
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Willoughby, Greg, 1935-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research and personal copies, written permission is required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 2006
- 1 sound file.
- Series:
- Drovers oral history project.
- Summary:
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Greg Willoughby, born in Crookwell, N.S.W. (1935) discusses his childhood and family; schooling; first job on a property near Coolah, N.S.W. as a "cowboy gardener"; wages; shearing and shearing sheds; horses and horse breeds; horse breaking and handling; horsemen; rough riding; station work at Binnia Downs Station, N.S.W.; Milo Station, Qld.; ringing on Ambathala Station, Qld.; installing dips; cattle feed; improving cattle yards; droving; mustering; cattle carting; the motorisation of cattle transport; road conditions; injuries to cattle during transport; animal welfare regulation; the Beef Road Scheme (ca.1970); trucking; hitchhiking; itinerant work; working as a builder’s labourer; working on a sugar cane farm; sugar cane varieties; bulldozing; fruit picking; rodeos; his family business; transporting livestock such as deer and buffalo; transporting plants.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on June 11, 2006 at North Mackay, Qld.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (3 p.) and corrected transcript (typescript, 27 leaves)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Drovers
- Other authors/contributors:
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Drovers oral history project.
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- Published status:
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- Creation date:
- 2006
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