Oral History of Work in Australia

Bert Vickers, Perth, W.A – Wool Classer

INTERVIEW:  Bert Vickers -1969

 

PLACE:

Perth, W.A.

 

NOTES:

Bert is a writer of English birth, aged about 67 who worked as a wool classer in the north. He talks about various folk characters and shearing shed life, bush preachers and nicknames.

Wendy Lowenstein 1972

 

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LOWENSTEIN FAMILY COLLECTION

 

NATIONAL LIBRARY AUSTRALIA ORAL HISTORY

 

STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA ORAL HISTORY

 

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