Vote

Audio

Voices of the Hunter

Linked To

Person

Jack Delaney

Depicts or Relates To

Stan Smyth

Collection

Voices of the Hunter

Place

Cessnock, NSW

Map

Add

Recollections

Add

no stories yet

General Use Special Collections Copyright

Please contactSpecial Collections if you are a subject of the interview, or know a subject of the interview, and have cultural or other reservations about the interview and summary being made available on this website and would like to discuss this with us.

This recording can be used for study and personal research purposes. If you wish to reproduce this recording for any other purpose please obtain permission by contacting the University of Newcastle's Special Collections. If you have any further information about the image, please contact us or leave a comment.

Tools

Download Add to My Collection Contact us about this Citation for this item

Aub Johns & Harold Slade, Miners. Recorded 11 April 1978. Part 1/2

Details

SummaryTAPE 136A Aub Johns and Harold Slade
Recorded on 11 April 1978
Part 1 of 2

1:15
Resident of Keims Hill – George Harrison was his mother’s father (Paternal grandfather. He never saw his paternal grandfather.

2:55
His father’s sister married Davies and her husband also had the choirs at Cessnock and Kurri. Etty’s father was a miner. Etty’s father and the narrator were going to be the first miners to go “on the coal” when they sunk at Maitland Main. On the passenger train returning from the baths at Moree he was waving out to some kids crossing the line when an engine came along and bumped two carriages which cut his legs off at the ankles. He died. By the time he reached Hexham “he ponged too much” – Smythe was working for Fry Bros as manager. Mr Henry had two black horses with lace down the sides of the horses and they’d walk the coffin to the cemetery.

7:44
George Pring – funeral undertaker.

10:50
Arthur was the first milk carter beginning in 1898. Bernie McGraine followed.

11:52
He married George Slade’s sister. Aub’s family –“none under 60” – His father was Dave Johns and his mother was Lucy Harrison. Seven kids in the Johns’ family eldest sister Gwen - Mrs Frankin married Sam, then Aub, then 2 sisters, Leah married Mr Bradley and Mag married Cec Bowden, Ken married Miss Williams and Dave married Dulcie Fields and Valma married Phillips the jeweller in Hunter Street.

15:41
Vincent Street – maybe 1928 – concreting Neath Road and Vincent Street.

20:32
First skating rink – Les Hill ran it. The open air theatre where Woodhouse built his shop. Arthur Mayo operated it. “The girl Porters” used to play the piano. Aub suffers an asthma attack and is laid up for 6 weeks.

26:06
Sarroffs and the Empire Theatre. Spare block of land. Wentworth – Joe Doyle. Hilton Guest - Coles.

27:00
Reynards – and then further shop owners along the street including butchers and bootmakers, a picture show, Bill Hoggetts Fruit O’s, a furniture shop, Coaldrake’s Deli, George Barnes the pastry cook and baker A etc.

29:54
End Tape 136 Side A Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

SubjectSlade, Harold, 1903-1988Cessnock (N.S.W.) -- Social life and customsJohns, Aubrey David, 1902-1986 Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

PersonJack Delaney Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Depicts or Relates ToStan Smyth Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

CreatorJohns, Aubrey David, 1902-1986Slade, Harold, 1903-1988 Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Delaney, Jack, 1919-2010 Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

CollectionVoices of the HunterPlaceCessnock, NSW Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Date Created11th April 1978Location^[1]Cessnock, NSW Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Identifier136A Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Start typing here to find a location	Latitude	Longitude	Zoom	Actions

loading google map....

Save Cancel