Stan Brown (1910-1986) - History of Stockyard Creek. Part 1/2.

Stan Brown was a long term resident of Laguna, NSW.

0:18
 Three hotels. Commercial Hotel owned by the Enrights.
 0:56
 More shops in the old days. Horrie Humphries was the tailor. Sibly was the dentist. Grandmother had small goods and cake business. Alf Jones had grocers/mixed business.
 1:54
 Depression. All the pits closed. Miners worked on road crews near Murrurundi.
 2:28
 Branxton. More rural than Greta. Greta more of a mining town. A lot of interaction between the towns.
3:25
 Lots of sports teams and various competitions. Foot races, quoits.
 3:47
Area 334 ft. width of a good sized soccer field.
 4:17
Other sports. Rugby League team (description of location in relation to where the interview is being held - unknown)
5:00
 Leconfield. Used to be a pit. Coal moved by lorry rather than rail. Loaded onto rail at same siding as coal from the open cut.
 5:43
 Pits outside Leconfield. Roxburgh Pit.
 6:05
 Heard of Central Greta Pit but doesn't know location.
  6:23
Speight and Teasy owned a store. Albert Speight, had a brother down the pit which caught fire.
 7:09
Greta Soldiers Camp. Only one hotel left when Army camp established.
 8:04
Change to migrant camp. Schools in the camp. Headmaster, at East Maitland Primary School was a teacher there. Bert King.
 9:07
Jack Vincente and family in Branxton. Family owned produce shop. Golfing.
 9:44
Standing family. Cliff Standing (engineering firm at Carrington). Dick Standing (service station at Branxton). Jim Standing.
 11:56
Cliff Standing - working for the RSL at Maitland, lives in Branxton.
 12:44
 More's the earth movers. From Elderslie. Allan More killed in plane crash. Bruce More his son was piloting.
 13:12
Brown. Bus maker at Branxton. Garnet and Kevin Brown.
 13:52
Relations to the More's that own buses at Singleton.
 14:02
Rex More, secretary of Golf Club
 14:17
 Rex More's mother and her marriages.
 15:43 to 27:39
 Lots of talking over each other. May be multiple tracks. Talks about Cessnock Municipal Council boundary; Maitland City Council; Maitland Depot.
 18:13
Dr McFarlane
19:54
Ice delivery at Branxton
21:58
No brickworks at Greta. One at Branxton.
 23:29
 Alan Brown
 26:15
Dances at Greta. Up to eight in one week. The Cinderella Club in the big hall. Church of England Hall, dance there every night of the week. Before World War Two.
 27:19
 Dances mainly at the School of Arts at Branxton. Harry's Hall at Branxton.
27:37
 Picture shows. Originally owned by Beswick (silent era) then McKinnons.
 28:22
 Another picture show run by Geordie Bell. Hand wound camera, silent. Hall down from Wyndham St, then turned into a billiard room and then pulled down.
 29:08
Originally was Tommy Wharton - timber yard, furniture. Then Geordie Bell ran pictures in it.
30:02 
 Numbers are pictures.
 30:16
Picture show at Branxton became bus depot, was picture show. Owned by Jack Rose originally. Then owned by someone from Singleton and then depot from 600 pounds. 150 x 150ft
 31:06
 The Empire Pictures became the early Rover's buses depot.
 31:12
 Construction of the bus depot. Sizes of the Oregon trusses. 52 ft long with no join.
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