AUDIO
Interview with Lola Allan
- Date
- 18 Mar 1992
- By
- Allan, Lola, 1926-
- Reference
- OHInt-0020/12
- Description
Lola Allan describes father's job as manager at Rotowaro; the community at Denniston; similarity with Rotowaro; journey from Denniston to Rotowaro; going to Rotowaro School; Maori children, reference Thelma Williams; Cordonville misnamed Gordonville; Jojo Town; relationship of father with miners; facilities of house; lighting at the mine and town; going to Huntly; chores as child; deliveries of food; gardening and preserving; housekeeper after mother died in 1940; comparison of the war (World War II) with late 1930s; Women's War Service Auxilary; celebrations in new hall after war; entertainment and alcohol; teenage activities; no desire to leave Rotowaro; the 1951 strike.
Recalls the Country Womens' Institute; family activities as a child; conditions of the roads at Rotowaro; the carbonisation works and workers; lack of crime; medical services at Rotowaro.
Venue - Huntly
Interviewer(s) - Jamie Mackay
Venue - 20 Kimihia Road, Huntly
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004401
Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 46 Minutes Duration.
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 732 - also contains excerpts from tape transcripts.
- Additional description
Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.
Alternative form available: Listening copy OHLC-001923
- Use/Reproduction
- Public use may require the written permission of the donor Copyright: Held by Jamie Mackay
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Part of
- Huntly Coalfields oral history project
- Format
- 1 C90 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 1 interview(s), 46 Minutes Duration, Oral histories
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Interview with Lola Allan, printed abstract
Date: 18 Mar 1992
From: Huntly Coalfields oral history project
Reference: OHA-0732
Description: Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s).
Interview with Lola Allan, tape one
Date: 18 Mar 1992
From: Huntly Coalfields oral history project
Reference: OHC-004401
Description: Interviewer(s) - Jamie Mackay Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 1 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s).