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Interview with Warren Warburton

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Date

10-24 Aug 1998 - 10 Aug 1998 - 24 Aug 1998

By

Cairns, Beth, active 1991; Warburton, Warren Gilbert, 1921-

Reference

OHInt-0464/18

Description

Warren Warburton was born in Invercargill in 1921. Recalls his childhood in the suburb of Heidelberg and his schooling. Mentions local small farms, Chinese gardeners, rabbiting and ferrets. Discusses home deliveries of bread, fish and milk. Talks about playing cricket and being a junior representative. Describes going to the Dunedin Exhibition [1926]. Talks about the drowning of his brother Len in 1925 while rowing on the estuary. Mentions his mother was a foundation member of the croquet club and his brother Lloyd was a mountaineer. Talks about his other brothers Wally, Ralph and Allan. Discusses the establishment by his father, Cuth Warburton, of the family jewellery business in 1913 and his retirement in 1944. Talks about the Gore branch of the firm. Mentions buying Campbell's Jewellers, other jewellery shops trading in Invercargill, repairing watches and clocks, records kept and family members in the business.

Interviewer(s) - Beth Cairns

Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008621

Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration.

Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other brief abstract OHA-2695.

Photos of Warren Warburton in 1942 (at Burnham) and in 1998

Additional description

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

Use/Reproduction

Public use may require the written permission of the copyright holder Copyright: Invercargill Public Library

Access restrictions

Partly restricted material

Part of

Southland oral history project

Format

1 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 1 interview(s), 1 Hours Duration, Oral histories, Illustration: Photos of Warren Warburton in 1942 (at Burnham) and in 1998

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