Ernie Blundell interviewed by Steven Guth for the Galong oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 583120
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Blundell, Ernie, 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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- 1989 May 24
- 5 tape reels : 7 1/2 ips., stereo ; 5 in.
- Series:
- Galong oral history project.
- Summary:
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Mr Blundell talks about selections of land; shepherds in the 1860s; railways; Rocky Ponds; English surveyors; Crown Land; gold mining; chaff cutting; Harden Mine; yoke; cradle; his schooling; milking to and from school; breakfast; cows and commons; carting bullock heads; building houses; flooring; kitchens; bedding; fleas; mine shaft as a cure for asthma; education; school; roads; teachers' workloads; discipline; food; collecting manure; pests in the garden; butter in the well; Chinese mining methods; neighbours; Saturday night dances; high tech farming; farmers going bankrupt; farm sizes; farming costs; animals' health; grasses; ice carting from the Monastery; keeping cows; making farms show a profit; farm labour pay; headers; Flannerys; probate; the Friends ; syndicates; entertainment; ploughing with horses; caring for horses; tractors; bullocks; chemicals; rabbits; scarab beetles; erosion; use of trees on farms; collecting onions and potatoes; windmill; bullocks and wild horses; chaff cutting; flying MIG 7s in China; being gassed; learning to fly a plane; making maps; crash in Darwin; being caught by communists; teaching bee keeping in China ; picking melons; pneumonic plague; paying the doctor with produce; rabbits; billy goat and ram fight; vandals; fight with the policeman.
- Notes:
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-221208794
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary available.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Guth, Steven, 1943-2018, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Galong oral history project.
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1989
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