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BUCKINGHAM, Greta Margaret interviewed by Tessa Smith
Record Group — Box: 43
Identifier: H0457
Dates:
2021
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Foster Postcard and Photograph Collection
Record Group
Identifier: A0630
Overview
Processing Note: This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for details of collection content.
Dates:
Majority of material found within c.1910 - 1917
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
GLENDINNING, Russell MacLennan interviewed by Jenny Campbell
Record Group — Box: 9
Identifier: H0124
Overview
In this interview Russell talks of family history, his life and education around the Catlins. He has had a passion for railway since childhood. Russell describes local history around Taukuku e.g. whaling, Maori settlement and ship wrecks. He also describes farming on Peninsula, saw milling, and medical treatments and diseases. At the age of 15 Russell joined the railways as a labourer where he studied and gained qualifications. He found his niche with the Kingston Flyer in 1971 and describes...
Dates:
2008
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
HAYES, Beverley Margaret interviewed by Tessa Smith
Record Group — Box: 43
Identifier: H0458
Dates:
2021
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
KNIGHT, Jack Campbell interviewed by Gordon Duston
Record Group — Box: 15
Identifier: H0277
Overview
This interview is part of the Awarua Radio Communications Museum collection. In this interview Jack tells his family history before going onto to describe in detail his work for the Post Office in particular his time spent at Awarua Radio Station during WW2 where he used his qualifications with morse code. During this time, he also had to learn Japanese Morse Code. After the war he returned to Post Office duties in various towns around the south before retiring at the age of 57. He speaks of...
Dates:
2016
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
PATTERSON, Edna Dorothy interviewed by Avis McDonald
Record Group — Box: 35
Identifier: H0322
Overview
Edna talks about family history and life when growing up. She talks about the vegetable garden, helping her father in the dairy factory where he was manager, games played and chores as a child. She describes her father’s work and the operation of the factory and cheese making. She details her mother’s role in the home and goes onto talk about her education until leaving school at 15. Her out of school activities included going to Balclutha to learn music and going to Dunedin to learn...
Dates:
2010
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
SODERSTROM, Violet Elizabeth (Peggy) interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau
Record Group — Box: 59
Identifier: H0475
Overview
This interview was commissioned by Women's Division of Federated Farmers for a project entitled Pioneer Women. Violet Elizabeth Peggy Soderstrom was born Torquay, England. In this interview Peggy gives her family background - father a teacher at Torquay School of Art. She describes her education at a Convent School run by French Nuns, her first employment and her enlistment as a WREN in 1916 at Torquay. She gives her reasons for coming to New Zealand and mentions the Victorious Scheme for the...
Dates:
1990
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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