Robbie Gough interviewed by Bruce Simpson and Bill Gammage in the Drovers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2134366
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Gough, Robbie, 1946-, 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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- 2002
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 51 min.)
- Series:
- Drovers oral history project.
- Summary:
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Robbie Gough, ringer and publican, born 1946, in Townsville speaks about moving to Charters Towers, Qld. at an early age; marrying in 1966 and living in Mount Isa for a short time while working on cattle stations; his father working as a drover and stockmen; living in a tents at an early age and growing up in a shed outside of Charters Towers; working at a dairy while at school; leaving school at thirteen to become a ringer on a station at Mt. Ravenswood; other places where he worked over twenty years; the good bushmen he has known; describes incidents at Dawson Vale; Southwick West where he worked for four years with all male cattle; droving in the ranges and methods used; explains the phrase 'stringing them down'; tells a story about a scary moment with cattle; his love for Southwick West; the basalt walls in the region and problems working in basalt country; shoeing horses in basalt country; the Black family; the working members of the Southwick West camp.
Gough describes meeting his wife and their courtship; moving into town and building a house; the building methods used; beginning to work in the building industry as a labourer; getting a builders licence; the ingenuity required when working in the bush; writing songs; sings his song about working as a ringer; his achievements in life and ambitions of singing country music in America; working as a publican and becoming a part-owner of the Waverley Hotel; the ringers drinking at the Waverley; the working day in the hotel; his childhood living conditions; the baked food cooked in the bush and cooking with few ingredients; the hard times in the bush; playing games and the responsibilities as a child in the bush; lighting lamps when living in a tent; recites some of a song written by himself; how water was gathered using carts; his father working at this time as a fettler on the railways.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on Oct. 5, 2002 at Charters Towers, Qld.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-221266569
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (1 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 31 leaves)
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