Interview with Renee Hart

Renee Hart was born in Worthing, Sussex, England on 20 June 1919. Mentions her passports, her attitude to her nationality and the postings of her father's regiment. Talks of her parents' marriage and children. Describes her father's move to India as a bandsman and how the family travelled there. Describes the band's musical commitments. Talks of her father's change from playing brass to stringed instruments and piano. Mentions the governors of various regions in India. Relates the details of the family's return to England and their subsequent return to India. Talks of her mother's occupation in hairdressing, her sister's role in the business and her own training, the techniques used at the time, their Indian customers with reference to privacy for various races. Mentions social life in the hills and teaching dancing with her sisters. Mentions her family's religion and censoring the forces' mail in wartime. Talks of her husband's family connections with India, their meeting and living in India. Describes sports clubs, social clubs and membership, relationships, modes of transport. Explains what their accommodation was like, mentions bathrooms and toilets at home and at boarding school. Mentions servants. Talks about her children, her parents and siblings settling in New Zealand. Describes her father's work and pension husband's job situation.

Awards/funding - Project received an Oral Histroy Grant

Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin

Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008508, OHC-008509

Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 1.50 Hours and minutes Duration.

Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2643.

Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.