Jack Watkins interviewed by Bruce Simpson and Bill Gammage in the Drovers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4218062
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Watkins, Jack, 1927-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research and personal copies. Written permission is required for public use for 10 years from the date of the interview.
- Description:
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- 2007
- 1 sound file (ca.60 mins).
- Series:
- Drovers oral history project.
- Summary:
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Jack 'Scrubber' Watkins, discusses his family life; father an engine driver; jumping train to Marree aged 11; working on Murnpeowie Station; cattle droving; friends enlisting Second World War; working as a stockman; Allandale Station; Dick Munn; Anna Creek Station; Afghan hawkers and cooks; preference for working on cattle stations; Ironbark Jim Davey; Granite Downs; mobile horse packs; R.M. Williams; donating old droving equipment to museums; poor quality water sources; Tommy Singer; station life; Billy Moyle; Reg Winton; rations of food and clothing for Indigenous stockmen; retiring from cattle industry; adapting skills for other employment.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on August 24, 2007 at Camooweal, QLD.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
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- Uncorrected transcript (typescript, 39 leaves)
- Timed summary (3 p.)
- Subject:
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This belongs to the Drovers oral history project.
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2007
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