Peter Alkemade

Coimadai Lime Kilns - Victoria - History|Quarries - Extractive Industries|Work Conditions - Wages and Salaries - 1920 - 1970|Alkemade Family

as in title/subject.|Contents:| 0 - 3 mins: Geophysical properties of Coimadai region.|3 - 6 mins : Gold mining, lime burning and farming. Tobacco growing during the depression. Wages were 3 pound 10 per week. Tobacco plants were selling for 1 pound per 1000.|6 - 9 mins: Father made enough profit from tobacco farming to establish a bottled spa water production. Selling and razing of houses prior to flooding of valley for Merrimu Reservoir. Cooper's Quarry. Burnip's and Cooper's kilns.|9 - 12 mins : Redundant kiln preservation measures. Old kiln construction.|12 - 15 mins : Old kiln construction continued. Gulliver's Place grog shop.|15 - 18 mins : Accidental deaths.

Sound Disc 2

sound disc (18 mins.) :digital, stereo ;4 3/4 in.

Jenny Mitchell, Rod Faulkner

Melbourne's Living Museum of the West Inc.

Maribyrnong, (Vic)

Sound Recording

130104575

VMLMW

1984