Bertie Walters interviewed by Alex Hood and Annette Hood in the Alex Hood folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4978544
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Walters, Bertie, 1913-, interviewee
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2010
- 1 sound file (ca. 62 min.)
- Series:
- Alex Hood folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Bertie Walters speaks about his birth; his parents' background; his schooling; his childhood home life; timber milling; gold mining; dairy farming and milking; Lower Bucca; dancing for recreation; the environment, wild life and livestock; starting work after primary school; bullock teams, naming of bullocks, bullock drivers; becoming a bullocky; 'snigging' sleepers and logs; the use of ironbark for railway bridges; travelling from Bucca to Moonee to work; marrying at 60; working during the depression as a milkman; being in the Light Horse; living and working around Coffs Harbour and hinterland; managing to find enough work to make a living during his life; his extended family; community knowledge; bushfires and saving his own house from bushfire; being active; playing bowls; liking the place where he lives now.
- Notes:
- Recorded on 31 May 2010 in Coffs Harbour, N.S.W.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary available.
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Sleeper cutters
- Other authors/contributors:
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Alex Hood folklore collection.
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2080 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2010
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