Interview with Alison McBride

Date
19 Feb 2010
By
McBride, Alison Mary, 1955-
Reference
OHInt-0984-11
Description

Interview with Alison (Ally) McBride (nee Coxhead), born in Napier in 1955. Interviewer's summary:

Ally was born in Napier, one of six children. She spent her childhood in Taradale and Dunedin where her family moved in 1961. This interview was recorded to complete the interview recorded with her mother, Marian Coxhead (OHInt-0984-03). It focuses on Ally's childhood and teenage years and Marian's domestic life from 1955-70. Topics explored include: grandparent's domestic lives; parents' relationship and roles in home; kitchen and laundry facilities and upgrades; kitchen equipment; daily domestic routine; domestic help; meals, mealtimes and table manners; impact of week of television (hired for Landing on the Moon); chores, learning to cook, baking; food supplies, shopping and food storage; sources of recipes and core menu; food for celebrations, social occasions and picnics; food trends and signature dish; preserving and home brewing; mother's attitudes to money, housework and role; Other aspects of mothers life: work, volunteer and business activities, interests. Recipes from Marian's handwritten recipe book are referred to during interview.

Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell

Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001495

Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 3 Electronic document(s) (abstract, form, image captions). 3 digital photograph(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 3.09 Hours and minutes Duration.

Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff

Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001465, OHA-7391.

Colour photographs of: Ally McBride (19 Feb 2010); Marion Coxhead's recipe book cover and facing pages of handwritten recipes. Scanned B&W photograph of Gillian, Ally and Rachel Coxhead as young children cleaning the family car (OHDL-001466)

Search dates: 1955 - 2010

Additional description

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

Alternative form available: Both printed and digital versions of the abstract are available

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Public use requires the permission of the copyright holder Copyright: Copyright is held by Mrs Schmacher's Gems Project Collective
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Part of
Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s
Format
1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s), 3 Electronic document(s) (abstract, form, image captions), 3 digital photograph(s), 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s), 1 interview(s), 3.09 Hours and minutes Duration, Oral histories, Electronic records (Digital records), Electronic documents, Digital photographs, Digital images, Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff, Illustration: Colour photographs of: Ally McBride (19 Feb 2010); Marion Coxhead's recipe book cover and facing pages of handwritten recipes. Scanned B&W photograph of Gillian, Ally and Rachel Coxhead as young children cleaning the family car (OHDL-001466)
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Interview with Alison McBride, printed abstract

Date: 19 Feb 2010

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

Reference: OHA-7391

Description: Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s).

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Photographs of Alison McBride

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

Reference: OHDL-001466

Description: Colour photographs of: Ally McBride (19 Feb 2010); Marion Coxhead's recipe book cover and facing pages of handwritten recipes. Scanned B&W photograph of Gillian, Ally and Rachel Coxhead as young children cleaning the family car. Quantity: 3 digital photograph(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s).

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Interview with Alison McBride, digital abstract

Date: 19 Feb 2010

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

Reference: OHDL-001465

Description: Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - Interviewee information form; document with captions of images Quantity: 3 Electronic document(s).