Ted Wray interviewed by Rob Willis and Olya Willis in the Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 193519
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Wray, Ted, 1904-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1997
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 65 min.)
- Series:
- Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Ted Wray speaks of his father's work in the mines in Lithgowin the early 1900's; his schooling at Lithgow; leaving school at 14 years of age; working in the Small Arms Factory in Lithgow, stacking charges at S.A.F.; working in the mines starting at 18 years of age; relates stories about pit ponies - the work they did - treatment of the ponies; lighting & ventilation in the mines - bord and pillar mining; dust march; conditions in the mines; earning the magic dollar before WW2; 1949 strike; talks about Jock King (Secretary of the Miners Federation); support of the community in the 1949 strike; conditions in the mines - not many accidents using the pick / shovel; no superstitions; no fighting / disagreements in the pit; 8 hour working day strike; bringing in the machinery into the mine; miners in more danger now; more coal -more bonus - risk taking; pit bonus shared.
Wray speaks of the characters living in town; sport played - local town competition - story; affect on Lithgow of steelworks moving - some people following the steelworks; fragment of song When we get that tuppence back Charlie dear; information on the 35 hour week - conditions; retiring in 1964; Jock King helping out the pensioners.
- Notes:
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- No transcript available.
- Recorded on Nov. 15, 1997 at Lithgow, N.S.W.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-217306925
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary available.
- Subject:
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- Wray, Ted, 1904- -- Interviews
- Small Arms Factory (Lithgow, N.S.W.)
- Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation
- Coal miners -- New South Wales -- Lithgow -- Interviews
- Coal miners -- Labor unions -- News South Wales -- Lithgow -- History -- 20th century
- Strikes and lockouts -- Coal mining -- New South Wales -- History -- 20th century
- Occupation:
- Coal miners
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