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Jack Keily - Electrical & mechanical engineer. Recorded 9 March 1993. Part 1/1.

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Summary470A Jack Keily
Recorded 09 March 1993.
Part 1/1.

0:34
Started part time work at Ayrfield, 1972.
Cwmdu.
Jack trained as an electrical engineer.

1:09
Started apprenticeship at Pelaw Main.
Served out apprenticeship at Richmond Main.
Five year apprenticeship.

1:38
Mines where Jack Keily has worked.
Harold Teasedale.
Jack Elliot.

2:13
Tom Naylor.
Elrington.
Jack lived in a staff house at Elrington.

2:45
Ian McKensey.
Darcy Wiseman.
Chinaman's Hollow.

3:52
Rhondda Colliery.
Ayrfield No.3.
Worked at Elrington for 2 yrs before closure. Rhondda Colliery.
Walter "Wally" Williams.

4:30
Miller's.
Ironbark Colliery started work in 1972.
Delta Colliery owned by Miller in 1974.
Miller.

5:46
Belmont.
Ken McLaughlan.
Ayrfield No.3 reopened in 1962.

7:42
Austin Greener.
Lee Norse, continuous miner.
Norse Bros., hydro car.

8:31
Joy.
Newcastle wheat silos.
Miller.

9:11
Roderick Miller.
Alligators were used at Ayrfield No. 3.
Kevin Lane.

11:09
Ken Hartcher.
Bill Hartcher (father of Ken Hartcher).
Cwmdu.

12:33
Kerry and Tony Hartcher – Ken’s sons.
Ken Mansfield.
Stan Adamczek, washing plant engineer at Ironbark and Ayrfield.

14:49
Bill Miller.
Cwmdu haulage layout.
Andy Gow.

16:44
Millfield.
Mount Thorley.
Darcy Owen.

17:43
Ayrfield No. 3, aeroplane propeller fan.
Branxton and Rothbury railway feeder.
Don King, scraper loaders – the fabrication shop.

22:21
Percy Reid – the borer.
Dave Greenhaugh.
Peter Murray started out at Bellbird and Millfield.

25:09
Bede Kelly’s mother and Amanda Miller were sisters, Don King.
A.B. Rae worked for the Millers.

Roderick
28:55
Bob Peart (father was John, brother was Gil) storeman..
Kalingo.
South Maitland Railways – Jack Delaney was Traffic Manager in 1956. Station Master.

31:37
Colonel Gowd, Board of Directors at SMR needed Jack Delaney “to lop heads”.
Warren Russell, Les Fox.
Rhondda.

33:31
Mount Thorley – retired to do consultancy in mining..
Catherine Hill Bay Washery.
Pelton Washery – Tommy Carson.

34:21
Bill Anderson.
Peter Brawney – managed Catherine Hill Bay.
Stan Coffey wrote a Feasibility Study on Bellbird Colliery.

36:30
End (Tape 470/Side A)

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

SubjectKeily, John Daniel Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Electrical engineers Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Delta Colliery (N.SW.) Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Richmond Main Colliery (N.S.W.) Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Northern (Rhondda) Colliery (N.S.W.) Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Ayrfield No. 3 Colliery (N.S.W.) Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Cwmdu Colliery (N.S.W.) Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Mt Thorley Colliery (N.S.W.) Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Coal & Allied Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Coal mines and mining Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

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

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

Bede Kelly Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Percy Reid Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Don King

Darcy Owen Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Ken Hartcher Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Austin Greener - Mine manager and Inspector for the Mines Department. Part 1 of 1. Recorded 24 March 1988. Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

The Jack Keily Collection Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

CreatorKeily, John Daniel Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

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

CollectionVoices of the HunterDate Created9th March 1993 Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Location^[1]Elrington Colliery Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

^[2]Pelaw Main Colliery Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

^[3]Delta Colliery Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

^[4]Ayrfield No. 3 Colliery Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

^[5]Northern (Rhondda) Colliery Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

^[6]Mount Thorley Colliery Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

^[7]Richmond Main Colliery Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Identifier470A Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

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