Marianne Webb interviewed by Rob Willis for the Voices of the bush oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2092024
- Format:
- Audio
- 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:
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- 2000
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 50 min.)
- Series:
- Voices of the bush oral history project
- Summary:
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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:
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- 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:
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- Recorded with Olya Willis.
- Recorded on July 4, 2000 at Lightning Ridge, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (2 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Child care workers
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- Creation date:
- 2000
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