Vote

Audio

Voices of the Hunter

Linked To

Person

Jack Delaney

Depicts or Relates To

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

George Edwards (1913-1996) - Jeweller. Recorded 17 February 1984. Part 1/4.

Details

Summary089A George Edwards
Part 1 of 4
Recorded 17 February 1984

0:38
Len Bush – George’s brother-in-law. Eldest brother is Ernie. His father owned 3 brickyards because of the depression, he owned South Cessnock Brickyard. Moved to The Entrance in 1926. Father worked at Pelton Pit, there was also a brickworks there.

4:06
Bush's brickyard was on Maitland Rd. Father born at Ashfield, and mother was born at Auburn then she went to Granville. Grandfather originally started the brickworks. Father born approx. 1890.

9:33
George’s wife left Cessnock in 1939. Charles Edwards was his grandfather. His grandfather migrated from England around 1900 and went to Harper’s Hill in 1902 for four years. His uncle is Arthur Edwards. His grandfather was a vice-regal caterer. He was appointed 135 acres of land at Sawyer’s Gully.

13:21
Albert Edwards his uncle was the eldest and went into the coal mines. “Snow” Edwards was his son. Mark and Fred Telfer were family.

16:17
Eric West used to work in the store. Eric worked with Frank Delaney Jack’s brother. George’s grandfather built cellars and put 120 acres of grape berries in. He made various sweet wines. They stamped the grapes down. His father was born in Sydney. His mother was from England. His father had the first Buick car in 1915 in Sydney. His father got a license for a wine saloon, he brought Chance out in Maitland and bought there wholesale wine and spirit business. He bought his wine from Lindemans and Penfolds and had a garage on the corner of the saloon.

23:08
His father opened up the cellars around 1920. His father sold the license at Bishop’s Bridge. His father bought Veitch’s license and transferred it to Weston called Australian Wine License and sold to Penfolds. They left the Coalfields in 1935. They moved to Crows Nest Sydney and worked as a newsagent. Then worked as jeweller for 30 years.

30:02
Don Lett was a bike rider and was good bowler. Don’s wife was at the baby clinic. Alan Walker wrote two sociology books in Cessnock. Godliff Ekert family was strong in the wine industry. His father was friendly with Morris O’Shea and John Walker in the wine industry. George Fairbrother was a good wine maker.

35:12
His father was a good friend of Keith and Hector Tulloch. Keith was also a good golfer. Marge Tulloch was a school teacher. He sold the garage and Harry Brown managed it for him. Harry Brown taught George to drive.

39:40
Bill Knott made the pies and Sanderson’s bakery Cessnock made the best. Phil “Con” Connelly was in partnership with a smith for a bus. George was born in Weston in 1914. Charlie Hampton had a horse bus before Connelly got the motor bus. Hampton’s horse bus was a four wheeler. He went to school at Kurri.

43:38
End (Tape 89/Side A) Part 1 of 4. Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au