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Interview with Alec Brown

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Date

February 1986

By

Brown, Rowe Alec, 1923-1991

Reference

OHInt-0053/02

Description

Alec Brown was born in the Tasman area in 1923. Recalls his childhood in Collingwood where his father ran a dairy farm for the town's milk supply. Talks about milk supply during the Depression. Describes in detail the residents of the Beach Road area of Collingwood. Talks about family relationships, child rearing, subsistence living and the way in which women often brought up the children while men were away working. Comments on education and the employment of women. Describes the family's religious belief and ideas, particularly those of his mother, about social class. Talks about bovine tuberculosis, from which his wife suffered.

Talks about an extensive fire in Collingwood in about 1928 or 1929, the Collingwood hotel, the Depression and its effects, the 1935 election, politics and World War II. Describes coal mines and gold mining camps including the Puponga mine, Mount Burnett mines and Onekaka iron works. Talks about changes in Golden Bay including the growth of tourism. Briefly describes his work in the Post Office and the Navy during World War II.

Venue - Collingwood : 1986

Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little

Venue - Rosie Little's home at Collingwood, and on Beach Road frontage (outside)

Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002935; OHC-002936; OHC-002937; OHC-002938; OHC-002939; OHC-002940; OHC-002941

Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 6.30 Hours and minutes Duration.

Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 567.

Search dates: 1986

Additional description

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

Alternative form available: A digital copy of the recording is available in the Library's Reading Room

Use/Reproduction

Publication or broadcasting requires the written permission of the copyright holder, the interviewee or the interviewer. Copyright: held by Nelson Provincial Museum

Access restrictions

Partly restricted material

Part of

Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

Format

7 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 6.30 Hours and minutes Duration, Oral histories, Equipment used: Sony Walkman and Sharp GF 1950X cassette recorders ; tie pin microphones

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