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Read more about the article Memories of Rhondda Colliery

Memories of Rhondda Colliery

Ernie Eade started work at Rhondda Colliery, Teralba, on January 27, 1927 at the age of 14. He was paid six shillings and sixpence a day, a rate that increased each year by one shilling and ten pence until he reached the adult rate of 17 shillings and sixpence. He worked from 7am to 3pm with a half hour break from 11am. Ernie Eade in December 1930. Photo courtesy of Alan Mitchell. At that time Rhondda was owned by William Laidley and Co, along with the Co-operative mine at Wallsend. The company’s chief clerk came to…

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Read more about the article The Coffee Pot, at Toronto and Merewether
The Coffee Pot at Toronto.

The Coffee Pot, at Toronto and Merewether

It looked a lot like an old-fashioned outdoor toilet with wheels, with its weatherboard cladding and hopelessly unstreamlined shape. But the "Coffee Pot" was a remarkably serviceable little steam tram motor that functioned from 1899 to 1909 as a weekend picnic conveyance at Toronto and later as a coal-hauling engine at Howley's Colliery at Merewether. The Coffee Pot, looking its best, with trail car attached. The Coffee Pot was built in Sydney by Hudson Brothers. It was originally owned by Thomas Saywell, owner of coal interests on the NSW South Coast. It was used on the…

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Read more about the article A tale of two world tours: the MGM trackless train and the steam truck Britannia
Britannia steam truck on world tour in Newcastle NSW 1971

A tale of two world tours: the MGM trackless train and the steam truck Britannia

A "trackless train" and a steam lorry made compelling subjects for Australian photographers when they visited the country during world tours at opposite ends of last century. MGM trackless train outside Auburn Garage, Sydney, c1928 . Among a number of interesting photographs in one collection of glass negatives we were privileged to borrow was this oddity: a strange train-shaped truck outside J.A. Goldthorpe's garage in Auburn, Sydney. A little research discovered that this was the famous "trackless train" owned by MGM film studios, which came to Australia in 1928 as part of a world tour promoting…

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