Becks
[Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :Mt St Bathans from Beck [1870]
Date: 1870
From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Sumner, Lyttelton, Central Otago, Lake Wakatipu, Kawarau Gorge, Oamaru, Dunedin, Clutha River. 1870 to 1873]
Reference: E-016-4-019/020
Description: Looking north across a plain to surrounding mountains. Mount St Bathans is noted on the left Other Titles - Becks. Mount Saint Bathans Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, page size 88 x 153 mm.
Interview with Gladys Sinnamon
Date: 25 April 1994; 3, 9, 25 May 1994 - 25 Apr 1994 - 25 May 1994
From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project
By: Clouston, Denise, active 1994; Sinnamon, Gladys Margaret, 1913-2013
Reference: OHInt-0148/26
Description: Gladys Sinnamon (nee Mee) was born and grew up in the close knit rural community of Becks, Central Otago. Her parents were publicans - they owned the Becks Hotel - and farmers. All the family assisted with running the hotel. After one year at secondary school in Dunedin, Gladys returned home. Although she wanted to train as a nurse she was needed at home to assist with running the hotel which she did until she married local farmer William Sinnamon in 1936. Once married Gladys shifted with her husband to Poolburn where they farmed for many years and raised two children. Music had been one of Gladys' great interests - she played the piano for many years in a band and the church organ which she still plays on occasion. She also had a long association with the Women's Division and is a Life Member. Though they have retired from farming Gladys and her husband continue to live in the house they moved to when married. Gladys contines to be involved in the local community and has in recent years taken up bowls. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Oturehua Interviewer(s) - Denise Clouston Venue - Oturehua Accompanying material - Newspaper article "Historical society hard at work on old Becks Hotel". Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018595-018598; OHLC-010034-010037 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6437 and OHDL-00759. Photographs of Gladys aged nine with sisters; Gladys and son playing for a dance; Gladys in 1993.