Rocky Wedd interviewed by Rob Willis in the Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1446949
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Wedd, Rocky, 1903-, 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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- 1994 May 12
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 125 min.)
- Series:
- Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Wedd speaks of his birth in Gormaston, Tas. where his father was a mine mechanic at Mt. Lyell, the wage rate in 1899, how he father married in 1898, his own schooling, recalls his father's memory of the disaster at the Mt. Lyell mine with 42 men lost, followed by the Great Strike at Mt. Lyell, how his father broke a speed record getting equipment from Melbourne to the disaster site, school life and games played followed by 2 years at high school, joined the Navel Cadets, recalls an outbreak of bubonic flu, how he began an apprenticeship with the mine followed by buying a Buick in 1925 with his father, married in 1927 and moved to Melbourne for three years, returned to the mine in 1930 where he eventually became a mine engineer and retired in 1966, describes the mine conditions in the 1910-1912.
- Notes:
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- Recorded with Olya Willis.
- Recorded on May 12, 1994 in Strahan, Tas.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia ;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary available (2 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Mining engineers
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