AUDIO
Interview with Joan Bowman
- Date
- 29 Apr 2003
- By
- Bowman, Joan Umphelby, 1915-2008
- Reference
- OHInt-0872-01
- Description
Interview with Joan Bowman, born Joan Baker in Lower Hutt in 1915. Talks about getting married in 1937, living in a sleepout, and applying for a state house in 1940 after their first son was born. Describes getting a house in Ngaio and living there for 11 years before applying for an exchange to go back to Strathmore. Comments on getting a house in Fife Lane, Miramar, and being allowed to do renovations on it. Describes the changes they made over time. Discusses buying their house as soon as the opportunity arose. Talks about the friendly neighbourhoods in Ngaio and Miramar, and being in communities with children of a similar age. Refers to sports and other community activities and facilities. Comments that attitudes to, and the role of, state housing have changed over time. Talks about the difficulty of getting houses in the 1940s and 1950s, the low wages, the low rents for state houses and feeling lucky to have one.
Interviewer(s) - Ben Schrader
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015628 - OHC-015629
Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 1.21 Hours and minutes Duration.
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5608.
Search dates: 1915 - 2003
- Additional description
Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.
Alternative form available: Listening copies OHLC-009091 - OHLC-009092
- Use/Reproduction
- Public use requires the written permission for the copyright holder Copyright: Copyright is held by Housing New Zealand
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Part of
- We call it home; State Housing history project
- Format
- 1 printed abstract(s), 2 C60 cassette(s), 1 interview(s), 1.21 Hours and minutes Duration, Oral histories
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Interview with Joan Bowman, printed abstract
Date: 29 Apr 2003
From: We call it home; State Housing history project
Reference: OHA-5608
Description: Interviewer(s) - Ben Schrader Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s).
Interview with Joan Bowman, tape one
Date: 29 Apr 2003
From: We call it home; State Housing history project
Reference: OHC-015628
Description: Interviewer(s) - Ben Schrader Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 2 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Joan Bowman, tape two
Date: 29 Apr 2003
From: We call it home; State Housing history project
Reference: OHC-015629
Description: Interviewer(s) - Ben Schrader Arrangement: Tape sequence - 2 of 2 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).