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Transcript: Miss Marjorie Tebb recalls coupons used after WWII in her family's butchering business

Sydney Flour Song

Challenge Woollen Mills

Globe Mills

Pippita railway station

HL Bussell & Company Ltd

Weston Milling

Baughan, John

Playfair, Thomas

Government lumber yard

Charles Gordon's horse mill

First Government Water Mill, Parramatta

Gordon's mill

Government Mill

Kirkham mill

Lord's Mill

Marsden's mill

Woronora Mill

A relic of old Sydney: early Sydney in a casting 1913

Dawson's Foundry at Circular Quay c1854

Entrance to Tooth & Co. Kent Brewery, Broadway 1930s

Government lumber yard 1813

Kanematsu flour bag label print c1935

Letter from R Dawson & Co, Australian Iron Works, to the City of Sydney requesting permission to remove moulding sand from Sydney Common, February 1870

Letter from Richard Dawson, Australian Foundry to the Chairman of the City of Sydney Lighting Committee offering to supply cast iron lamp posts 17 March 1843

Moore Stairs, between Talbot Wool Stores at East Circular Quay 1870

Wool washing estate, Botany c1870

Miss Elizabeth Killinger talks about her father's tannery on the Georges River, interviewed 1986

Miss Marjorie Tebb recalls coupons used after WWII in her family's butchering business, interviewed 1986

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Transcript: Miss Marjorie Tebb recalls coupons used after WWII in her family's butchering business

Miss Marjorie Tebb was born in 1920 and interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' Here she is talking about the complex arrangements for coupons after World War II that regulated the wholesale and retail trade in meat for CR Tebb and Sons, her family's butchering business

Sydney Flour Song

Advertising song broadcast on radio

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Challenge Woollen Mills

Paper mill on the Georges River which was converted to woolen mills. Part of the building has been retained in the current residential development.

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Globe Mills

Four storey mill which conducted all processes from wool scouring to garment construction before closing after World War II. Recently converted to apartments.

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Pippita railway station

Railway station built in 1940 on the abattoir branch line for the workers at the State Abattoirs at Homebush and other industry in the area. It closed in 1995.

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HL Bussell & Company Ltd

Company formed in Chippendale by Henry Lytton Bussell after his arrival in Sydney in 1904. It produced flour products under the White Wings brand name until 1952 when the company was acquired by Gillespies Bros Pty Ltd and the company name changed to White Wings Pty Ltd.

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Weston Milling

Flour milling company which diversified into compound feeds, concentrates and nutritional services for agriculture.

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Baughan, John

Millwright and carpenter who arrived in Sydney as a convict on the Friendship in the First Fleet. He designed and built a successful functional grinding mill, using a treadmill model operated by 9 men in March 1794.

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Playfair, Thomas

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Butcher, charity worker and politician who campaigned for slum clearance and improved sanitation and water supply for the city. He was also responsible for the establishment of the Homebush saleyards in 1882. He served as Mayor of Sydney in 1885.

Government lumber yard

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Official government lumber yard and workshop on the southern corner of Bridge and George Streets that employed convict labour. Established about 1789 after an earlier yard on Bennelong Point was destroyed by fire, the yard was enlarged and improved by successive governments. In 1832 when the yard closed and the works moved to a smaller site next to Hyde Park Barracks it was providing employment for about 183 convicts. The lumber yard was an important early centre of manufacturing - well as blacksmiths, sawyers and carpenters it employed wheelwrights, tin smiths, tool makers, brass and iron founders, coopers, gunsmiths and wheelwrights. Clothes and shoes were also produced there.

Charles Gordon's horse mill

A horse mill for one or two horses in Upper Pitt Street owned by Charles Gordon in 1825.

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First Government Water Mill, Parramatta

Mill built at Mays Hill on the upper reaches of the Parramatta River about 1792 by Thomas Allen. It would appear to have been in use briefly in 1793, but it was unreliable and frequently broke down so was largely unused. Rebuilt in 1804, it was still fairly unsuccessful and was destroyed in 1820.

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Gordon's mill

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Stone and post mill situated on the ridge near the corner of Stewart and Gordon streets at Paddington which operated from about 1829 until the 1870s.

Government Mill

Third government windmill which stood in front of Fort Phillip which was built for Governor King by Nathaniel Lucas. It was described as an octagonal smock mill with propellers rotating on a post to gain the best advantage from prevailing winds.

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Kirkham mill

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Flour mill constructed in 1828 as a windmill and converted to a steam driven mill by the 1830s. It operated until rust destroyed local wheat crops in 1863 and was demolished in the 1880s.

Lord's Mill

Mill which used the fulling process of pounding the loosely woven cloth to knit the fibres and shrink them to produce a tight textural whole. The mill also scoured the fabric to soften and clean it using water from the nearby Mill Pond. The mill was closed when the government resumed the land for the pumping station.

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Marsden's mill

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Watermill built around 1810 on Darling Mills and Toongabbie Creeks by Samuel Marsden near the site of the present Cumberland hospital weir. It remained in use until about 1838. An earlier millrace on the same property was associated with the earlier Government Water Mill.

Woronora Mill

Flour mill built on the Woronora River which avoided the duty paid by all Sydney based mills. Using the undershot principle the river water hit the wheel the wheel at it's base causing it to spin.

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A relic of old Sydney: early Sydney in a casting 1913

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[Building magazine, 12 April 1913, p68 via Trove]

Dawson's Foundry at Circular Quay c1854

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By

Frederick Garling

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Detail of 'Circular Quay' )

Entrance to Tooth & Co. Kent Brewery, Broadway 1930s

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

(SRC3372. Originally part of CRS 44/256)

Government lumber yard 1813

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[PX*D 65 f17 (detail)]

(from 'View of part of the River of Sydney in New South Wales, taken from St Phillips Church yard' in 'Views in New South Wales', Sydney : Absalom West, 1812-1814)

Kanematsu flour bag label print c1935

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

Letter from R Dawson & Co, Australian Iron Works, to the City of Sydney requesting permission to remove moulding sand from Sydney ...

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

(A-000296984)

Letter from Richard Dawson, Australian Foundry to the Chairman of the City of Sydney Lighting Committee offering to supply cast iron ...

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City of Sydney Archives

(A-000280544)

Moore Stairs, between Talbot Wool Stores at East Circular Quay 1870

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Mitchell Library)

Wool washing estate, Botany c1870

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a2085019 / DGD 5, f 19]

(Dixson Galleries)

Miss Elizabeth Killinger talks about her father's tannery on the Georges River, interviewed 1986

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Miss Elizabeth Killinger was born in 1899 and was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' Miss Killinger's family was of German extraction and she talks here about her father's tannery on Ritchie's Creek [now Brickmakers Creek] on Georges River, which he established in the very early twentieth century.
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INTERVIEWER: And what did your father do in Liverpool?

ELIZABETH: He was a tanner.

INTERVIEWER: Whereabouts was your father's tannery, can you tell me a bit about that?

ELIZABETH: Yes, it was it was on the Ritchie's Creek I think they called it. If you came out from Liverpool, if you walked along Moore Street and then across Flowerdale Road, the road ended. Then we had our own private Ã¢â‚¬â€œ we called it a track but it was really a road Ã¢â‚¬â€œ and our house was just inside, oh not inside, about halfway between the road, Flowerdale Road and the creek, and then the tannery was a bit up from the creek. He had to pick a good spot where the water was suitable and there was a big water hole there and the creek came down through from round Hoxton Park way and down. And it never went dry at all. We had a couple of very heavy droughts and there was always water, he always had water, 'cause there was no city water around us at that time. He saw the land, it was sold by auction and he bought fifteen acres.

INTERVIEWER: So whereabouts did he learn his trade?

ELIZABETH: He learnt his trade in Germany, with his uncle in Wartenberg.

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Liverpool City Library

(Excerpt from interview with Miss Elizabeth Killinger for 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900-1960' conducted in 1986 by Liverpool City Council, editor and project co-ordinator Catherine Johnson ; researchers Angela Imbrosciano, Verica Miiosavijevic, Kathleen Smith.)

Miss Marjorie Tebb recalls coupons used after WWII in her family's butchering business, interviewed 1986

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Miss Marjorie Tebb was born in 1920 and interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' Here she is talking about the complex arrangements for coupons after World War II that regulated the wholesale and retail trade in meat for CR Tebb and Sons, her family's butchering business.
Transcript

MARJORIE: We went to the abattoirs every morning for a while and then we started to only go three times a week: Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays. In the meat hall we had a rubber stamp and if you said 'Right, I want that, how much is that?' they'd tell you so much a pound, or a kilo, as it is now, and then you'd put that rubber stamp on. And then when they delivered it you knew that it was what you'd got at the abattoirs because it had your stamp. At the time there was coupons [for] meat, and you had to have coupons to buy it. Many a coupon I counted; each beast was so many coupons or each lamb or mutton so many coupons per animal, pigs were so many coupons. And when you sold it you had to cut the coupons out of their [customers] books; and those coupons had to be counted and put in an envelope and sealed. You had five hundred in each envelope, an ordinary manilla envelope. You'd put them in and you'd put your stamp on the back of it - we've got a 'CR Tebb and Sons' stamp, you'd seal it and put the CR Tebb stamp on it and write 'five hundred coupons' on it. And you had to send that in to the Metropolitan Meat and Industry Board. They'd receive the coupons form you. That would give you the authority to buy the meat at the abattoirs.

Contributed By

Liverpool City Library

(Excerpt from interview with Miss Marjorie Tebb for 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900-1960' conducted in 1986 by Liverpool City Council, editor and project co-ordinator Catherine Johnson ; researchers Angela Imbrosciano, Verica Miiosavijevic, Kathleen Smith.)

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