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Foxon, Gladys, 1916- : My many homes
- Date
- 1995
- By
- Foxon, Gladys May, 1916-2005
- Reference
- MS-Group-0456
- Description
Foxon describes her life, chronologically, around the many houses she has lived in, from childhood through to the present day. Thus, she writes of London, coming to NZ in 1925, and living in Tauranga, Rotorua, Kopuawhara, and travelling back to England in 1932 on the `Niagara' and the `Oronsay'. After living in Edgware for seven years she returned to NZ on the `Akaroa' in 1940. Her story continues in Whangarei, Auckland, Benneydale, Sefton, Ravensbourne, Kaiapoi and finishes in Christchurch. She describes her activities at home and in the community.
Collection also comprises a selection from Foxon's autobiography, `Herd testing in Northland, 1941-1945' in which she describes her training as a tester, practice as one and life in the Northland-Hokianga region
Source of title - Transcribed
Relationship complexity - Records of the Women's Herd Testers' Reserve are at MS-Group-0423
Gladys Foxon was a member of the Women's Herd Testers Reserve during World War Two. She wrote the section in Lauris Edmond's `The way we were'
Quantity: 4 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Typescripts (some photocopies)
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- No access restrictions
- Format
- 4 folder(s), 0.05 Linear Metres, Autobiographies, Typescripts, Photocopies, Typescripts (some photocopies)
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Selections from her autobiography
Date: 1929 - 1941 - 1990 - 1945
From: Foxon, Gladys, 1916- : My many homes
Reference: MS-Papers-5520
Description: Collection comprises a selection from Foxon's autobiography, `Herd testing in Northland, 1941-1945' in which she describes her training as a tester and practice as one in the Northland-Hokianga region where she was eventually appointed Government tester for Northland. She describes the social life of the areas where she worked, various personalities, the difficulties and the pleasures of the life. The selection on Kopuawhara, a public works railway camp in the northern Hawke's Bay, describes Foxon arriving there as a 13-year-old from Tauranga to be partly in charge of her family, the way of life of a works settlement, social activities and meeting with her future husband. She brings the account up to date with a sequel to the early years. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (36 leaves).
My many homes (part 3)
Date: 1995
From: Foxon, Gladys, 1916- : My many homes
Reference: MS-Papers-5540-3
Description: Foxon continues with her story in Christchurch and describes the first house she and her husband had owned and where they lived for 17 years and her current residence where she has lived since 1978; some poems and correspondence re apprehension of an escaped prisoner, Robert Patrick Bennett Quantity: 1 folder(s) (131 leaves).
My many homes (part 2)
Date: 1995
From: Foxon, Gladys, 1916- : My many homes
Reference: MS-Papers-5540-2
Description: Foxon continues her story in Whangarei where she lived from 1940-1941, and 1941-1946, with a brief spell in Auckland in 1941; then to Benneydale in the King Country (1946-1947), Sefton in Canterbury (1947-1950), Ravensbourne near Dunedin (1951-1955) and Kaiapoi in Canterbury (1955-1961). Quantity: 1 folder(s) (92 leaves).
My many homes (part 1) and correspondence
Date: 1991-1995, nd
From: Foxon, Gladys, 1916- : My many homes
Reference: MS-Papers-5540-1
Description: Foxon describes living in London, coming to NZ in 1925 on RMS `Arawa', and then living in Tauranga, Rotorua, Kopuawhara, and travelling back to England in 1932 on the `Niagara' and the `Oronsay'. After living in Edgware for seven years she returned to NZ on the `Akaroa' in 1940. Included are letters from various readers of the autobiography, Irene and Les Goldby, England, Julie Williamson, Sumner, Joan Corry, Bernadette Hall, Mark Pickering and a review of Mary Hamilton's `Trials of the Earth' from an offspring. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (116 leaves).