AUDIO
Interview with Joy Attwood and Ruth Hulme
- Date
- 28 Mar 2000
- By
- Attwood, Joy, 1926?-2018; Hulme, Ruth, 1930s?-2012
- Reference
- OHInt-0528/1
- Description
Joy Attwood (née Going) and her first cousin, Ruth Hulme (née Vinson) describe a typical day, collecting wood, chores around the house, milking cows and arrival of electricity in the 1940s. Recall school with one teacher and 25 children; Christmas tree concert in Taurikura hall; leisure activities for children which included building huts in bush, swimming at beach and games which included, Kingisine, Rounders, tennis, cricket and social events for adults - fund raising concerts during war years, dances, card evenings at Bird's Manaia Gardens, with reference to Red Cross and sewing calico on parcels for overseas. Briefly talk about war years, with reference to Home Guard and Navy based at Bream Head Radar station. Refer to Mr Hollingworth, former tea planter from Ceylon. Refer to Church and Jasper Calder. Describe the limeworks and mentions Crown Lynn Potteries, Auckland. Talk about the Mayclair family and refers to artist J R Mayclair.
Interviewer(s) - Barbara Jagger / Peter Coates
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010759
Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration.
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3813.
Search dates: 2000
- Additional description
Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.
- Use/Reproduction
- Public use may require the written permission of the donor
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Part of
- Whangarei Heads Millennium oral history project
- Format
- 1 C90 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 1 Hours Duration, Oral histories
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Interview with Joy Attwood and Ruth Hulme, printed abstract
Date: 28 Mar 2000
From: Whangarei Heads Millennium oral history project
Reference: OHA-3813
Description: Interviewer(s) - Barbara Jagger Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration.
Interview with Joy Attwood and Ruth Hulme, tape one
Date: 28 Mar 2000
From: Whangarei Heads Millennium oral history project
Reference: OHC-010759
Description: Interviewer(s) - Barbara Jagger Arrangement: Tape sequence - tape 1 of 1 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.