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Oral History Transcripts

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Bade, Mrs.   (45.51 kilobytes)
Topics include life in Fairfield in 1930s

Bostock, Myra A   (11.97 kilobytes)
Topics include Pollard Theatre Company, Wages, Nurse Hooper Maternity Hospital

Cooke, Sylvia   (103.31 kilobytes)
Topics include Rudder Grange and the Yarra River

Daniels, Edna   (79.53 kilobytes)
Topics include calisthetics at Holy Trinty Church and social life and customs

Dennis, John   (36.67 kilobytes)
Topics include hotels, industries, streets, child care, churches, transport and the Northcote Town Hall

Dickinson, Mrs.   (12.59 kilobytes)
Wren House in Alphington

Ford, Elsa   (25.06 kilobytes)
Topics include the Aboriginal canoe tree and gardens

Gray, Alex   (173.38 kilobytes)
Topics include real estate, Yann Street, local schools, churches

Harold Harless   (76.28 kilobytes)
Topics include Chandler Highway, Alphington, local streets

Hendry, Edith   (114.58 kilobytes)
Topics include Alphington, social life and customs, Fairfield

Henwood , George (cont.)   (64.07 kilobytes)
Topics include unemployment, social clubs

Henwood, George   (86.67 kilobytes)
Topics include hardware stores in Fairfield and other shops

Howard, Arthur   (22.75 kilobytes)
Topics include bicycles, grocers, cost of living

Jones, C   (18.92 kilobytes)
Topics include the Weaver family and Northcote Town Hall

Keeble, Roy   (71.31 kilobytes)
Topics include the Tower House, Dundas Street, market gardens, Railton's nursery

Keeble, Roy (cont.)   (149.21 kilobytes)
Topics include working life in Northcote, Thornbury Picture Theatre, cable trams

Kerr, Ronald   (89.31 kilobytes)
Topics include hardware stores in Fairfield, other local shops

Lawrence, B   (66.71 kilobytes)
Topics include swamps in Thornbury, Perry Street, Disposal of night soil, piggeries

Mackennal, Phyllis   (15.07 kilobytes)
Topics include residences in Park Cres, Station St, Maristow Private Hospital

McDonald, Margaret   (47.88 kilobytes)
Topics include Northcote, shops, schooldays, war years, entertainment, local identities, Northcote Baths, Epiphany Church

Mooney, Mal   (27.77 kilobytes)
Topics include the Depression, rations, jobs

Moran, Fred   (129.07 kilobytes)
Topics include Racecourses, bookmakers, music shop, Labour Party, racing

Mundy, Alf   (85.05 kilobytes)
Topics include schools, Darebin Creek, social life, Yarra, Northcote identities, Christmas Street, entertainment, paper mill

Outram, Norman   (61.97 kilobytes)
Topics include shops in High St, Thornbury Bowling Club, Grandelle Nursing Home, MItcham Tile Works

Phillips, Laura Jean   (54.96 kilobytes)
Topics include W.B. McInnes, Chinese market gardens, Alphington swimming club, Yarra, National Gallery Painting School

Pizzey, Walter   (386.79 kilobytes)
Fairfield and Northcote landscape, rail services, Clarke St, Darebin Rd, working conditions and wages, family history

Reilly, Mr.   (25.83 kilobytes)
Topics include Depression, games & pastimes, theatres, dairying, bands, Westgarth

Stafford, Cyril   (166.74 kilobytes)
Topics include shops, hotels, horse racing, fishing, dairying, swimming pools, freeways, churches

Tierney, Alf   (110.33 kilobytes)
Topics include Northcote Potteries, shops, Northcote Football Club, Market Gardens, fishing, Depression, health, theatre

Townsend, Phoebe   (238.46 kilobytes)
Topics include Helen St School, transport, social and domestic life, church, Northcote buildings

Unknown lady living in nursing home   (47.52 kilobytes)
Topics include entertainment, family, domestic chores, Hortons Smith Street

Wayman, Sylvia   (79.75 kilobytes)
Topics include Alphington, shops, swimming pool, dairying, clubs, shops

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