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Harold Slade (1903-1998) - Miner and pottery worker. Recorded 16 February 1982. Part 1/2.
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SummaryHAROLD SLADE
Recorded 16 February 1982
Part 1/2
0:29
Location of Birmingham's property
1:24
Grandfather involved in dairy farming at Salt Ash. He bought the land off Mitchell who was bankrupt for 5/- an acre
2:02
Grandfather grew a little bit of wheat which they hand reaped. They took it to Wollombi mill. Harold worked the big old loco steam engine - there was a mill at Millfield at Hinchcliff at the time.
2:41
Steam engine used at Cessnock Potteries
3:28
Mark Robinson bought it when he came to the potteries.
3:52
Setting up the loco engine with all the wheels set up on a cement stand.
4:16
The mill's turbine was about 20ft long. It had flat pulleys with the wheels were lifted up.
6:46
Jack Dipford. Recollection of carrier business
7:08
Jimmy Jack
7:29
Loco engine was purchased from Richmond Main in 1923
7:53
Engine was transported by a big Reo truck - travelling at 3 or 4 mph. all the way from Kurri. The shed was built around it.
9:09
Mick Lane and his sons built the shed.
9:17
Steam engine fired with wood and coal and chitter from Neath pit. This engine was kept going all the time and it lasted 5 years. Electricity followed.
10:16
Recalls installing boiler, 1934
11:24
Harold Gould had the shop on Wollombi Road - Eddie Davis took over from him. Harold worked at that mill.
11:39
Harry Schultz went to the mill at Bellbird pit about 1923. George Pinchen
12:23
Bob Muirhead - anecdote about transporting the boiler (a Babcock and Wilcox) on a truck with tyre blow outs and weighting the front of the truck. The cabin had been removed. The belt was put straight on to the axle's wheels. Make of boilers, Cessnock Potteries
15:29
"Monkey" Isedale
15:36
Isedale's brick kiln, all handmade bricks. Using local clay.
16:00
Recalls building of Aberdare dam
16:31
Travelling stock paddock, location of
16:40
Recollection of stock paddock dam fenced with barbed wire.
17:09
Bush's brick kiln also used local clay.
18:10
Description of heating brick kiln
18:22
Reason for heating brick kilns
18:33
Description of brick firing process
19:08
Size and dimensions of brick kilns 20ft x 9ft wide 9" mud wall.
20:56
Recalls removing clay from quarry - dug to a depth of 80ft which has since been filled in with broken pipes and bricks etc.
22:08
Recalls mining underground for clay.
23:23
Paddy Gibson, Gus Joass worked the clay pits.
23:60
Harold's father leased church for hay shed for his dairy cattle
24:44
Billy Thompson - bought the land off the church. The church was vertically slab timbered and it had a shingle roof.
25:09
Recollection of St. Paul's, Rothbury - horizontally timbered.
25:18
Recalls timber slabs used in church - 3" thick timber and 8 - 10ft long. Ironbark timber.
25:54
George Chick shingled the timber in 1870.
26:13
Dot Chapman
26:18
Lester Chick
26:48
Ellen Scott was Harold's Sunday School teacher (Jimmy Scott's sister)
27:21
St. John's church, Cessnock built c.1908
27:50
Cameron (mother's maiden name) - her family had one of the first pubs in Wollombi - his grandfather sold the pub and bought the farm from Silas McMullen at Watagan Creek
28:16
Donald Cameron (uncle)
28:17
Lyle Cameron (uncle)
28:24
Nell Cameron (aunt)
28:25
Lil Cameron, May Cameron (aunts)
28:34
The Cameron girls married Slade.
28:39
Nellie married Ab Harris - Ab used to be the head ostler at Abermain No 2 pit.
28:41
Lily married Fred Jurd who worked on Natriss' bakery cart till he moved to Tamworth and then the paper shop at Waratah.
29:10
Aunty May married Amos Sweetman
29:24
Uncle Lyle married Ben Chapman's daughter from St Albans and Uncle Don married a Jurd from St Albans.
30:09
Father was first milkman in Cessnock - 1898
30:27
Father carted timber for pits - Harold's mum would get the three horses and a dray ready to cart to Little Cessnock No2 (which started in 1910.)
33:17
Recollection of Neath brickworks - The bricks used in the Water Board and the Kearsley Shire Chambers were made from Neath brick works.
33:44
Neath supplied bricks for council
34:15
Neath Beach.
36:44
Location of early brick kiln, Neath
37:45
Neath colliery began operating, 1906
38:20
Arthur Henry - Reg's father - the engineer at Neath.
38:29
Reg Henry
40:28
Wilson Barrett - manager at Neath.
40:30
Ted Hayler from Kalingo
42:06
Cyril Mackay carted thousands of tons of red clay for tile making.
42:25
Recalls mixing clays to make tiles - unique mottled colours on houses in Cessnock.
43:09
Neath Colliery owned mining rights
43:28
Cec Yates worked at the brick works
43:37
Wesley Yates worked as a mechanic
43:38
"Old" Bill Yates - the winder driver at Neath pit.
44:07
Arthur Henry - "he was very scared of lightning"
44:50
Reg Henry - had three children
44:59
Warren Henry
45:07
John Henry and a daughter who married a underwater depth estimating to build channels.
Tape duration: 46:01
Slade, Harold, 1903-1988PersonJack DelaneyDepicts or Relates ToReg Henry - History of Cessnock Rotary Club. Part 1/1.Jack Barrett (1904-1991) & Mick Lane. Sawyers Gully area. Recorded 8 November 1983. Part 1/2.Wilson BarrettTed HaylerDelaney, Jack, 1919-2010CollectionVoices of the HunterPlaceCessnock, NSWDate Created16th February 1982Location[1] Cessnock, NSW[2] Richmond Main Colliery, NSW[3] Neath Colliery, NSW[4] Kalingo Colliery, NSWIdentifier264A
Recorded 16 February 1982
Part 1/2
0:29
Location of Birmingham's property
1:24
Grandfather involved in dairy farming at Salt Ash. He bought the land off Mitchell who was bankrupt for 5/- an acre
2:02
Grandfather grew a little bit of wheat which they hand reaped. They took it to Wollombi mill. Harold worked the big old loco steam engine - there was a mill at Millfield at Hinchcliff at the time.
2:41
Steam engine used at Cessnock Potteries
3:28
Mark Robinson bought it when he came to the potteries.
3:52
Setting up the loco engine with all the wheels set up on a cement stand.
4:16
The mill's turbine was about 20ft long. It had flat pulleys with the wheels were lifted up.
6:46
Jack Dipford. Recollection of carrier business
7:08
Jimmy Jack
7:29
Loco engine was purchased from Richmond Main in 1923
7:53
Engine was transported by a big Reo truck - travelling at 3 or 4 mph. all the way from Kurri. The shed was built around it.
9:09
Mick Lane and his sons built the shed.
9:17
Steam engine fired with wood and coal and chitter from Neath pit. This engine was kept going all the time and it lasted 5 years. Electricity followed.
10:16
Recalls installing boiler, 1934
11:24
Harold Gould had the shop on Wollombi Road - Eddie Davis took over from him. Harold worked at that mill.
11:39
Harry Schultz went to the mill at Bellbird pit about 1923. George Pinchen
12:23
Bob Muirhead - anecdote about transporting the boiler (a Babcock and Wilcox) on a truck with tyre blow outs and weighting the front of the truck. The cabin had been removed. The belt was put straight on to the axle's wheels. Make of boilers, Cessnock Potteries
15:29
"Monkey" Isedale
15:36
Isedale's brick kiln, all handmade bricks. Using local clay.
16:00
Recalls building of Aberdare dam
16:31
Travelling stock paddock, location of
16:40
Recollection of stock paddock dam fenced with barbed wire.
17:09
Bush's brick kiln also used local clay.
18:10
Description of heating brick kiln
18:22
Reason for heating brick kilns
18:33
Description of brick firing process
19:08
Size and dimensions of brick kilns 20ft x 9ft wide 9" mud wall.
20:56
Recalls removing clay from quarry - dug to a depth of 80ft which has since been filled in with broken pipes and bricks etc.
22:08
Recalls mining underground for clay.
23:23
Paddy Gibson, Gus Joass worked the clay pits.
23:60
Harold's father leased church for hay shed for his dairy cattle
24:44
Billy Thompson - bought the land off the church. The church was vertically slab timbered and it had a shingle roof.
25:09
Recollection of St. Paul's, Rothbury - horizontally timbered.
25:18
Recalls timber slabs used in church - 3" thick timber and 8 - 10ft long. Ironbark timber.
25:54
George Chick shingled the timber in 1870.
26:13
Dot Chapman
26:18
Lester Chick
26:48
Ellen Scott was Harold's Sunday School teacher (Jimmy Scott's sister)
27:21
St. John's church, Cessnock built c.1908
27:50
Cameron (mother's maiden name) - her family had one of the first pubs in Wollombi - his grandfather sold the pub and bought the farm from Silas McMullen at Watagan Creek
28:16
Donald Cameron (uncle)
28:17
Lyle Cameron (uncle)
28:24
Nell Cameron (aunt)
28:25
Lil Cameron, May Cameron (aunts)
28:34
The Cameron girls married Slade.
28:39
Nellie married Ab Harris - Ab used to be the head ostler at Abermain No 2 pit.
28:41
Lily married Fred Jurd who worked on Natriss' bakery cart till he moved to Tamworth and then the paper shop at Waratah.
29:10
Aunty May married Amos Sweetman
29:24
Uncle Lyle married Ben Chapman's daughter from St Albans and Uncle Don married a Jurd from St Albans.
30:09
Father was first milkman in Cessnock - 1898
30:27
Father carted timber for pits - Harold's mum would get the three horses and a dray ready to cart to Little Cessnock No2 (which started in 1910.)
33:17
Recollection of Neath brickworks - The bricks used in the Water Board and the Kearsley Shire Chambers were made from Neath brick works.
33:44
Neath supplied bricks for council
34:15
Neath Beach.
36:44
Location of early brick kiln, Neath
37:45
Neath colliery began operating, 1906
38:20
Arthur Henry - Reg's father - the engineer at Neath.
38:29
Reg Henry
40:28
Wilson Barrett - manager at Neath.
40:30
Ted Hayler from Kalingo
42:06
Cyril Mackay carted thousands of tons of red clay for tile making.
42:25
Recalls mixing clays to make tiles - unique mottled colours on houses in Cessnock.
43:09
Neath Colliery owned mining rights
43:28
Cec Yates worked at the brick works
43:37
Wesley Yates worked as a mechanic
43:38
"Old" Bill Yates - the winder driver at Neath pit.
44:07
Arthur Henry - "he was very scared of lightning"
44:50
Reg Henry - had three children
44:59
Warren Henry
45:07
John Henry and a daughter who married a underwater depth estimating to build channels.
Tape duration: 46:01
Slade, Harold, 1903-1988PersonJack DelaneyDepicts or Relates ToReg Henry - History of Cessnock Rotary Club. Part 1/1.Jack Barrett (1904-1991) & Mick Lane. Sawyers Gully area. Recorded 8 November 1983. Part 1/2.Wilson BarrettTed HaylerDelaney, Jack, 1919-2010CollectionVoices of the HunterPlaceCessnock, NSWDate Created16th February 1982Location[1] Cessnock, NSW[2] Richmond Main Colliery, NSW[3] Neath Colliery, NSW[4] Kalingo Colliery, NSWIdentifier264Aloading google map....
Delaney, Jack, 1919-2010, Harold Slade (1903-1998) - Miner and pottery worker. Recorded 16 February 1982. Part 1/2., [264A]. Living Histories, accessed 09/06/2023, https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/55917