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Harold Dodd (1918-1990) - Mine worker, Aberdare Extended Colliery. Recorded 1 March 1982 - Part 2/3
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Summary224B Harold Dodd
Recorded 01 March 1982
Part 2 of 3
1:08
Dai Price and Harold talk about the explosive powder, 10 pound limit of 5 pounds for each tin, they carried powder in a "powder tin". Remembers the powder tin exploding due to people keeping it n there longer than they should have. Lit powder with fuse. They worked in the water. Extra wages for excessive water money. They carried drills to sharpen, Tom Hanson used to sharpen them, and he sharpened picks and drills. Drills were sharpened once a week, they were split open, screwed, and sharpened.
8:16
There were different length of drills, some 3, 4, 5 or 6 feet. Drills shunted in skips. They got 3 or 4 bob a day and 15 bob weekly compensation payment. Wages for working on the coal was 15 bob compensation. Miner's Accident Fund, when he got paid there was some taken to pay for a doctor and other things.
12:28
At Glebe pit there was an incident. When Dai was a contract miner, filling skips, they would have 20 skips and would have to fill them to the top get as much in them as possible, they were paid based on tonnage. Dai was a clipper at Extended and chased another clipper due to an accident involving the "clipper".
17:22
Quarterly reports, mention incidents such as leaving places in unsatisfactory conditions and were fined by the Miner's Lodge. Workplace conditions unsatisfactory, had to use 30 pound of powder to clean it up. Put props up in a square, and "baulking" scaffolds. Erection of mines workings at Aberdare Extended, batons and bracing, took four days to put up the baulking. Pit top layout of Aberdare Extended, Dai told them it was the wrong way around.
30:28
Location of early race meeting in 1905, hack races or punt races was in the paddock opposite Hampton's Hotel. Kangaroo races. The location of whippet racing track was where the jail is now. Used to chase and catch kangaroo rats, got sixpence out of it. Betting on whippet races, there were a dozen whippets and they would put a distinctive jacket on them.
38:35
The miners' holidays were always to Nelsons Bay or Lake Macquarie. Dai went to the lake and travelled by horse & sulky. He went through Speers Point through Minmi. "The Gap" was an early road to Speers Point. Dai talks about driving to Maitland in 1905 with father. Sea Pits at Newcastle with the A.A. Company. Alf Mason was the Neath undermanager.
42:12
End (Tape 224/Side B) part 2 of 3
Dodd, Edward Harold, 1918-1990PersonJack DelaneyCollectionVoices of the HunterPlaceCessnock, NSWLocation[1] Cessnock, NSW[2] Aberdare Extended Colliery, NSWIdentifier224B
Recorded 01 March 1982
Part 2 of 3
1:08
Dai Price and Harold talk about the explosive powder, 10 pound limit of 5 pounds for each tin, they carried powder in a "powder tin". Remembers the powder tin exploding due to people keeping it n there longer than they should have. Lit powder with fuse. They worked in the water. Extra wages for excessive water money. They carried drills to sharpen, Tom Hanson used to sharpen them, and he sharpened picks and drills. Drills were sharpened once a week, they were split open, screwed, and sharpened.
8:16
There were different length of drills, some 3, 4, 5 or 6 feet. Drills shunted in skips. They got 3 or 4 bob a day and 15 bob weekly compensation payment. Wages for working on the coal was 15 bob compensation. Miner's Accident Fund, when he got paid there was some taken to pay for a doctor and other things.
12:28
At Glebe pit there was an incident. When Dai was a contract miner, filling skips, they would have 20 skips and would have to fill them to the top get as much in them as possible, they were paid based on tonnage. Dai was a clipper at Extended and chased another clipper due to an accident involving the "clipper".
17:22
Quarterly reports, mention incidents such as leaving places in unsatisfactory conditions and were fined by the Miner's Lodge. Workplace conditions unsatisfactory, had to use 30 pound of powder to clean it up. Put props up in a square, and "baulking" scaffolds. Erection of mines workings at Aberdare Extended, batons and bracing, took four days to put up the baulking. Pit top layout of Aberdare Extended, Dai told them it was the wrong way around.
30:28
Location of early race meeting in 1905, hack races or punt races was in the paddock opposite Hampton's Hotel. Kangaroo races. The location of whippet racing track was where the jail is now. Used to chase and catch kangaroo rats, got sixpence out of it. Betting on whippet races, there were a dozen whippets and they would put a distinctive jacket on them.
38:35
The miners' holidays were always to Nelsons Bay or Lake Macquarie. Dai went to the lake and travelled by horse & sulky. He went through Speers Point through Minmi. "The Gap" was an early road to Speers Point. Dai talks about driving to Maitland in 1905 with father. Sea Pits at Newcastle with the A.A. Company. Alf Mason was the Neath undermanager.
42:12
End (Tape 224/Side B) part 2 of 3
Dodd, Edward Harold, 1918-1990PersonJack DelaneyCollectionVoices of the HunterPlaceCessnock, NSWLocation[1] Cessnock, NSW[2] Aberdare Extended Colliery, NSWIdentifier224Bloading google map....
Delaney, Jack, 1919-2010, Harold Dodd (1918-1990) - Mine worker, Aberdare Extended Colliery. Recorded 1 March 1982 - Part 2/3, [224B]. Living Histories, accessed 24/09/2023, https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/55865