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DVD recording of demolition of Laings Road Methodist Church Building in 2002
Date: 2002 - 01 Jan 2002
By: Capital Video Productions
Reference: OHColl-0867-01
Description: When the Laings Road Methodist Church, Lower Hutt, was demolished in 2002, a VHS video was made by Capital Video Productions, Paraparaumu, which has been transferred to a DVD and donated to the Library as an addition to the Laings Road Methodist Church (Lower Hutt) records. Relationship complexity - Laings Road Methodist Church (Lower Hutt) records are deposited in Manuscripts and Archives at Ms-Group-0360. Arrangement: DVD optical disc: OHDVD-0001 Quantity: 1 digital video disc(s). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.
Interview with Ida Wilton
Date: May 2000
By: Wilton, Ida Helen, 1911-2000
Reference: OHInt-0495-1
Description: Ida Wilton was born in Kilbirnie in 1911. Describes the Scottish origins of her mother, Rachel Black, and the Irish origins of her father, Henry Morrah. Recalls visiting her grandparents who lived in a large wooden house on the corner of Aro and Willis Streets. Notes her grandfather was Inspector of the Bank of Australasia. Describes living in Tiringamutu, near Taumarunui, Petone and Ngaio. Discusses her family's health, alcohol, and a family trip by train to Auckland. Talks about her father's work at New Zealand Railways and her mother's dressmaking abilities. Recalls her parents' separation. Describes working for AMP insurance, joining the investment section and sitting and passing insurance exams. Recalls friends Joyce Thom, Nigel Tosswell and Jim Weir. Talks about marrying Keith Wilton at the beginning of World War II, finishing work, living in Khandallah and raising four children. Talks about the death of her child with Down's Syndrome. Recalls being in the nursing home about twelve days after having a baby and having help from a Karitane nurse. Describes housework and being at home with children. Comments on the pace of life these days. Recalls the drowning of a nephew in the Wahine disaster and its effect on the family. Talks about her husband's death. Mentions her own illness and her children. Quantity: 1 transcript(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-001846. Black and white photographs in transcript
Interview with Janet Mary Braggins and Barbara Anderson Jarnell
Date: 15 Jan 2007
From: Otari Wilton's Bush oral history project
By: Braggins, Janet Mary, 1933-; Jarnell, Barbara Anderson, 1939-
Reference: OHInt-0830-01
Description: Interview with Janet Mary Braggins (nee Brockie), born Christchurch 1933, and Barbara Anderson Jarnell (nee Brockie), born Christchurch 1939. Talk about their father Walter Brockie, who worked at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens until they moved to Wellington in 1947 when he became curator at Otari. Describe their home and family life at Otari, and community life in Wadestown. Discuss their father's work maintaining and developing the gardens, referring to the rock garden, Cockayne's memorial grave, and planting kauri. Mention the two staff Arnold Henderson and Bon Everett, neighbour James K Baxter, and friend Harry Talbot. Discuss their father's interests (including photography and homebrewing), holiday plant collecting trips including Campbell Island, and breeding native plants. Mention their mother Vera Best started the visitors' book - James K Baxter wrote a poem in it. Refer to their father saying that it would probably be another 50 years before his work at Otari would be appreciated. Interviewer(s) - Johnathan Kennett Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 57 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5563. Search dates: 1933 - 1947 - 2007
Interview with Margaret Gerardine McIver, printed abstract
Date: 1 Jun 2010 and 8 Jun 2010 - 01 Jun 2010 - 08 Jun 2010
From: Vietnam War oral history project
Reference: OHA-7700
Description: Abstracted by - Pip Oldham Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4.40 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Interview with Adrienne Joy Lichtwark, printed abstract
Date: 24 Sep 2010
From: Vietnam War oral history project
By: Lichtwark, Adrienne Joy, 1946-
Reference: OHA-7699
Description: Abstracted by - Carole Dawber Interviewer(s) - Claire Hall Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.50 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Interview with Joe Te Miha, printed abstract
Date: 4-8 Aug 2008 - 04 Aug 2008 - 08 Aug 2008
From: Vietnam War oral history project
By: Te Miha, Hapi Joseph Valdi Popiano, 1944-
Reference: OHA-7708
Description: Interviewer(s) - Brenton Beach Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Interview with Stewart Couchman, printed abstract
Date: 6 July 2009
From: Vietnam War oral history project
By: Couchman, Stewart McKenzie, 1942-
Reference: OHA-7694
Description: Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Recorded by - Susan Fowke Venue - Recorded at Linton Accompanying material - Questionnaire about his life and experiences in Vietnam Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Search dates: 1942 - 2009