Harry Morgan - Clerk, Pelton Colliery. Recorded 7 December 1987. Part 1 of 1.

387A Harry Morgan 07/12/1987

0:28
Began work as clerk at Pelton Colliery in 1937
Pelton generated own electricity

0:47
Type/make of generator, Pelton
Albert Shaw

1:33
Introduction of mechanisation, Pelton, 1947
Recalls Ellalong drifts being put down

1:47
Dave Haldane, manager
Mechanisation initiated at Pelton in 1950

2:49
Coal delivered underground by conveyer belt
Pit top structure was rebuilt in 1934

3:05
Pelton purchased ship loading plant
Seam worked was part of Greta seam

3:18
Thickness of coal seam, Pelton
Steepness of coal seam, Pelton
Recalls new tunnel driven for conveyor belt

3:39
Specifications of trunk conveyer system
Pelton was worked using bord & pillar

4:22
Brand/type of coal-cutters used at Pelton
Recalls how coal was brought to surface

5:08
Drift was sunk by Beattie & Frost
Concrete bin formed by Beattie & Frost

5:27
Drift was sunk by Allied Construction
Recollection of Pelton coal washery plant

6:58
Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company
Eric Newham

10:02
Recalls Bellbird going into liquidation
Decision made to operate from Cessnock, 1915

11:24
Cyrus Doyle
Harry Levy

12:29
Sidney Croudace
N.J. Clarke
Henry D. Hill, original Pelton manager

15:22
Recalls construction of railway to Pelton, 1917
Recalls original furnace ventilation fan, Pelton

16:53
Type/dimension of ventilation fan, Pelton
Recalls fan being driven from power supply

17:34
Location of ventilation fan, Pelton
Recollection of "eyesight" tunnel

19:22
Production output (tonnage), Pelton 1957-58
Price of Pelton coal, 1957-58
Recollection of "endless rope" haulage
Depth of haulage tunnel, Pelton Colliery
Recalls steam-driven "endless rope"
George Fenn
Perce Reid
John Dunneface, manager
David Haldane, manager
Henry Hill
Recalls transition toward mechanisation

27:21
Frank Whittaker

27:49
Pelton bath house completed in 1952
Pelton No.2 tunnel

29:59
Reconstruction of workshop and office, 1955
Cessation of traffic from rail line, 1954
Col Stone
Percy Reid
Recalls move into longwall mining operations
Australian Civil Engineering sunk shaft

38:40
Recollection of water pumps used at Pelton
Recalls water being pumped into holding dams

39:29
End (Tape 387/Side A)