Campbell, Jenny
Person
Interviewer with the Southland Oral History Project
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
BURGESS, Ngaire Rita interviewed by Jenny Campbell
Record Group — Box: 29
Identifier: H0194
Overview
In this interview Ngaire discusses her early life in South Canterbury on a farm. She shares family stories including tracking sheep and trapping rabbits on the farm. She goes on to talk of her education, employment and social life. She joined the Air Force and worked in the Technical Library at Whenuapai, in Auckland. She travelled overseas 58 times. She tells of her marriage to Brian and their family. Over the years she was involved in the running of bookshops and had ‘Ngaire’s Bookshop’ in...
Dates:
2014
DAWSON, Ailsa Ruth interviewed by Jenny Campbell
Record Group — Box: 11
Identifier: H0265
Overview
In this interview Ailsa talks about growing up in Makarewa and then Wyndham. She describes what she remembers of Wyndham growing up and her schooling and past times. Ailsa talks about the impact of WW2. She then talks of moving to Invercargill and meeting her husband through church and her parents in later life.
Dates:
2006
ERICSON Muriel Elizabeth, interviewed by Jenny Campbell
Record Group — Box: 9
Identifier: H0017
Overview
Muriel discusses her family and education history which reflects on the times i.e. training to be a teacher and her first posting at Nightcaps, marriage, life on the farm pre electricity and telephone; country life, being a member of the WDFF through which she ran sewing classes. Muriel tells of their connections with Waipara lighthouse and her husband Ronald’s war years.
Dates:
2007