Vote

Audio

Voices of the Hunter

Linked To

Person

Jack Delaney

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

Keith Victor (1916-2008) - Mine worker. Recorded 7 December 1987. Part 1/1.

Details

Summary387B Keith Victor
Recorded 07 December 1987

0:23
Began working at Aberdare Colliery in 1942
Recall being "cabled out" in 1960

1:19
Worked at Aberdare North tunnel
Aberdare North mechanised in 1952

2:22
Recollection of different job descriptions
Recalls working on the coal

2:56
Description of 11BU Joy loader
Description of 8BU Joy loader

4:42
Recalls coal being cut with coal cutters
Recollection of hand boring coal

5:30
Recalls introduction of electric borers
Description of 8BU Joy loader

7:42
Shuttlecars were battery operated
Number of batteries per shuttlecar

9:23
Tonnage capacity of shuttlecars
Aberdare North was first pit to be mechanised

10:21
Allowed "leading hand" on each shift
Description of miners' job duties

12:18
Recalls working on "4 Main Dips" section
Recalls working at Hexham coal washery

13:57
Worked at Chain Valley from 1962-68
Jerry Bailey

14:57
Transferred to Aberdare East in 1968
Worked at Buchanan Colliery, 1970

16:51
Recalls using Joy continuous miner
Description of Joy continuous miner

18:07
Recollection of mining Aberdare North
Disadvantages if using Joy miners

19:21
Description of loading coal with Joy miner
Reason for name of "continuous miner"

20:36
Description of how continuous miner worked
introduction of cable cars, Aberdare North

21:35
Advantages of cable cars
Description of how cable cars worked

22:26
Description of "Lee Norse" miners
Description of how "Lee Norse" miner worked

24:03
Recalls working at Aberdare West
Les Carroll

26:38
Worked at Newstan Colliery in 1971
Billy Smith

27:26
Recollection of "stay-in" strike
Recalls using horses for "snigging" timber

29:47
Recollection of underground stables, Aberdare
Number of horses, Aberdare

30:07
Location of horse stables, Aberdare
Description of a "flat"

30:56
Description of "endless rope" haulage
Depth of main haulage drift "driver"

32:16
Job description of a "clipper"
Job description of a "wheeler"

32:29
"B" shaft was used as emergency shaft
Recollection of speed of haulage cage

33:32
Used "dummy" cages for skip haulage
Miners only rode in "top cage"

33:58
Recalls horses were stabled underground
Norm Powell

35:15
"Skinny" Allen
Jimmy Jack

36:11
Bill "Bruiser" Victor (brother)
Widening of Aberdare North drift, 1964
Recollection of "shooting solids"
Height of coal seam, Aberdare North

40:12
Description of "dropping tops"
Recalls "putting down" of bore

44:14
End (Tape 387/Side B) Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

SubjectVictor, Keith, 1916-2008 Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

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

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

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

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

Hexham Coal Washery Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

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

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

Coal mines and mining -- New South Wales -- Cessnock Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

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

CreatorVictor, Keith, 1916-2008 Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

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

CollectionVoices of the Hunter Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

PlaceCessnock, NSW Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Date Created7th December 1987 Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Location^[1]Hexham Coal Washery, NSW Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

^[2]Chain Valley Colliery, NSW Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

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

Identifier387B Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Start typing here to find a location	Latitude	Longitude	Zoom	Actions

loading google map....

Save Cancel