Maurice Styles interviewed by Rob Willis for the Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4805926
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Styles, Maurice, 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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- 1990 May 8
- 3 sound tape reels (ca. 99 min.)
- Series:
- Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Maurice Styles talks about the Pinnacle and Ironbark Goldfields; a fight which took place during a Church Service; salt in the mines; going to school in Ironbark; Ben Hall's mine; Dan Charters (a friend of Ben Hall) stories; Harry Manns hanging; Jack Williams' bullocky; Ben Hall stories as told by Dan Charters; meeting Dan Charters; Escort Rock robbery stories; division of gold scales; the Escort Rock robbery; Gardiners gold (1912); Gordon Piper's research; attending school and the people of Ironbark; his schooldays; his parents; dances held at Ironbark; roller skating in 1910; the poverty in Ironbark, food, lice, cooking in a camp oven and washing clothes; leaving school; becoming an apprentice at Forbes Gazette; knocking about in the bush; Paddy Glenn, the Irish Overlander; Drover's tales; snow leases; his father's tales of the Burrawang shearing shed; rabbit plagues, poison cart and the removal of carcases; Paddy Glenn stories.
- Partial contents:
- Song: Bloody fields of Wheogo.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on May 8, 1990 at Grenfell, N.S.W.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-598272297
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary available.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Willis, Rob, 1944-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection.
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- Until 2060 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1990
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