MANUSCRIPT
The Rhodes/Vizer records. Part Two - Reminiscences of Alan Geoffrey Rhodes
- Date
- Aug 2001
- By
- Rhodes, Alan Geoffrey, 1932-
- Reference
- MSX-8196
- Description
Reminiscence of this early years growing up in Mount Victoria, Wellington, and teenage years spent in Lyall Bay, Wellington. Describes the family homes at Derby Street and Kent Terrace, Mount Victoria; holidays at Hihitahi; childhood entertainment; war years and visit of the Pamir; hobbies (reading, model-making); years at Clyde Quay School (includes photo of Std 1 taken in 1939) and time spent at Otaki Health Camp. Move to Queens Drive, Lyall Bay and years at Wellington College. Discusses first years of his working life and ends with his move to Upper Hutt as an optometrist with Cocks & Newall, and meeting his wife Valerie Spencer in 1954.
Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Finding Aids: Surname index at back.
- Use/Reproduction
- Photocopying requires the permission of the donor
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Rhodes, Valerie June, 1932- : Spencer and Rhodes family histories
- Format
- 1 volume(s), Manuscripts
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