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Aub Johns (1902-1986) - Mineworker. Recorded 22 June 1983. Part 1 of 4
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Summary320A Aub Johns
Recorded 22 June 1983.
​Part 1 of 4
0:20
Jack and Aub are touring through the Keinbah, Pokolbin and Bishop’s Bridge area. On Maitland Road Aub points out location of Water's shop, he was a fruitier. Was like a restaurant, you could sit down and have plates of fruit.
Cominoes shop had a bit of everything (c 1908) and then Jones’s come into it later.
2:10
Burgess & Harrison's timber mill. Where Aub’s Uncle Burgess lived. #20 Gallagher Street. Nearby was Dai Price’s residence. Then MacPhee and Old man Duffin. Price’s. No. 17 Gallagher street was only a little place in the back and they built it tup. Old Jimmy Duffin lived around there.
4:09
They stop to talk to Dai Price. Alphonse Kennedy built the shops around 1918. Down the back of Kemps’. Thompson was in it at one time.
Marjoribanks store, built in the 30’s.
6:00
Kenny's boarding house c. 20s. Earliest stonemasons – Lane, Roberts
Church, school and school masters residence. The original Catholic church.
9:36
Other people who lived in the area. Arthur Slade and Sid Slade brothers. Mick O'Connor. Old slab shack. Old Jimmy “Jas” Scott. Old McGuiness. Paul Love and Stan Love (first house on the left on the Allendale road), Love’s vineyard. The location of the Rosedale Racecourse. Near McDonald’s Hill and the Branxton Road. Pinchens ran their cattle on it.
14:34
The Pokolbin Racecourse on Love’s or O’Connor’s property. "Kaiser's Hill" named after original owners of the property bought by Joe Keims.
The Aerodrome. Original Pokolbin Road (originally known as DeBeyers Road). Pokolbin Racecourse near O’Connor’s. The route between Cessnock-Broke through Allendale road crossroads and onto DeBeyers Road. "Old" Kaiser's Hill Road. Wills' Hill Rd (around Aerodrome).
18:52
The location of Keim’s house and cellars. The old road. George Chick lived out there. Lomas’s Lane. "Glenmore" the original McDonalds residence, veranda and stone house.
24:28
Aub first came out around 1914, he remembers driving horses through Pokolbin. Wills’s house. Church built by Joseph Drayton (of Drayton’s wines) c 1865. Drayton’s wife was a Chick. Location of their graves. Aub also had an Uncle, Joseph Drayton, a different one. George Chick’s house. McDonald’s. Howell bought Keims’s old wine cellar. The dark house on the top was Aub’s grandfather’s residence, Bill Smith lives there now.
29:00
Dan Love (on the Aerodrome) Paul Love (on the left). Vineyards in the area, where the grapes were in Aub’s time. Reg Bancroft’s property (near bridge), used to belong to Old man Love (the old cellars).
32:18
Old George Keims. Original Keims house and cellars. New vineyard "Allendale" cellars was never there, that was Keim’s property. They lived near the peppercorn trees. William McLaren’s property "Davlea".
Early stock reserve down to the creek, near Keims’ swimming hole.
Aub’s early home, his grandfather’s house, belonged to a Richardson. Magnificent view. Orchards, old dam, big horse sheds, a big well. Rails between theirs and Kiem’s property. His grandfather’s name was George Bernard Harrison.
38:54
George gave Old Frank Lomas a life to Lomas’ Lane.
39:32
They get out of the car and talk to the current owner of what used to be Aub’s grandfather’s property. She is Billy’s Pott’s daughter, Harold Potts’ granddaughter.
40:50
End of Tape 320 Side A, Part 1 of 4.
Johns, Aubrey David, 1902-1986PersonJack DelaneyCreatorJohns, Aubrey David, 1902-1986Delaney, Jack, 1919-2010CollectionVoices of the HunterDate Created22nd June 1983Location[1] Pokolbin, NSWIdentifier320A
Recorded 22 June 1983.
​Part 1 of 4
0:20
Jack and Aub are touring through the Keinbah, Pokolbin and Bishop’s Bridge area. On Maitland Road Aub points out location of Water's shop, he was a fruitier. Was like a restaurant, you could sit down and have plates of fruit.
Cominoes shop had a bit of everything (c 1908) and then Jones’s come into it later.
2:10
Burgess & Harrison's timber mill. Where Aub’s Uncle Burgess lived. #20 Gallagher Street. Nearby was Dai Price’s residence. Then MacPhee and Old man Duffin. Price’s. No. 17 Gallagher street was only a little place in the back and they built it tup. Old Jimmy Duffin lived around there.
4:09
They stop to talk to Dai Price. Alphonse Kennedy built the shops around 1918. Down the back of Kemps’. Thompson was in it at one time.
Marjoribanks store, built in the 30’s.
6:00
Kenny's boarding house c. 20s. Earliest stonemasons – Lane, Roberts
Church, school and school masters residence. The original Catholic church.
9:36
Other people who lived in the area. Arthur Slade and Sid Slade brothers. Mick O'Connor. Old slab shack. Old Jimmy “Jas” Scott. Old McGuiness. Paul Love and Stan Love (first house on the left on the Allendale road), Love’s vineyard. The location of the Rosedale Racecourse. Near McDonald’s Hill and the Branxton Road. Pinchens ran their cattle on it.
14:34
The Pokolbin Racecourse on Love’s or O’Connor’s property. "Kaiser's Hill" named after original owners of the property bought by Joe Keims.
The Aerodrome. Original Pokolbin Road (originally known as DeBeyers Road). Pokolbin Racecourse near O’Connor’s. The route between Cessnock-Broke through Allendale road crossroads and onto DeBeyers Road. "Old" Kaiser's Hill Road. Wills' Hill Rd (around Aerodrome).
18:52
The location of Keim’s house and cellars. The old road. George Chick lived out there. Lomas’s Lane. "Glenmore" the original McDonalds residence, veranda and stone house.
24:28
Aub first came out around 1914, he remembers driving horses through Pokolbin. Wills’s house. Church built by Joseph Drayton (of Drayton’s wines) c 1865. Drayton’s wife was a Chick. Location of their graves. Aub also had an Uncle, Joseph Drayton, a different one. George Chick’s house. McDonald’s. Howell bought Keims’s old wine cellar. The dark house on the top was Aub’s grandfather’s residence, Bill Smith lives there now.
29:00
Dan Love (on the Aerodrome) Paul Love (on the left). Vineyards in the area, where the grapes were in Aub’s time. Reg Bancroft’s property (near bridge), used to belong to Old man Love (the old cellars).
32:18
Old George Keims. Original Keims house and cellars. New vineyard "Allendale" cellars was never there, that was Keim’s property. They lived near the peppercorn trees. William McLaren’s property "Davlea".
Early stock reserve down to the creek, near Keims’ swimming hole.
Aub’s early home, his grandfather’s house, belonged to a Richardson. Magnificent view. Orchards, old dam, big horse sheds, a big well. Rails between theirs and Kiem’s property. His grandfather’s name was George Bernard Harrison.
38:54
George gave Old Frank Lomas a life to Lomas’ Lane.
39:32
They get out of the car and talk to the current owner of what used to be Aub’s grandfather’s property. She is Billy’s Pott’s daughter, Harold Potts’ granddaughter.
40:50
End of Tape 320 Side A, Part 1 of 4.
Johns, Aubrey David, 1902-1986PersonJack DelaneyCreatorJohns, Aubrey David, 1902-1986Delaney, Jack, 1919-2010CollectionVoices of the HunterDate Created22nd June 1983Location[1] Pokolbin, NSWIdentifier320Aloading google map....
Delaney, Jack, 1919-2010, Aub Johns (1902-1986) - Mineworker. Recorded 22 June 1983. Part 1 of 4, [320A]. Living Histories, accessed 29/09/2023, https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/55994