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WALLACE, Marion Frances interviewed by Lynne Grove
Record Group — Box: 46
Identifier: H0491
Overview
In this interview Marion describes her early life on the Isle of Wight, then her travels to Australia during the Melbourne Olympic Games of 1954. She talks about her various jobs: secretarial work at Somerset House in London, teaching English in Morocco, then working and travelling in the US. She worked for UNESCO in Paris during the late 1950s and then travelled overland from Paris to Singapore. She lived in Darwin, married and then moved to Dunedin, settling near Riverton to raise a family....
Dates:
2021
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Wallacetown School
Record Group
Identifier: A0426
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1873 - 1954
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
Walter Peak School
Record Group
Identifier: A0427
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1922 - 1930
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
Walter Sutherland Tompkins Postcard Collection
Record Group
Identifier: A0625
Content Description
These two postcards came from the postcard collection of Walter Sutherland Tompkins. W.S. Tompkins was born in Mangaweka 1901 to Ernest Walter Tompkins and Catherine Jane (nee Cockburn).
Many of the family aunts and uncles would send Walker postcards for his Birthday, Christmas or just to let him know they were thinking of him. Walter was a great collector of postcards and had approx. 100 in total.
The two donated to the Invercargill City Archive are the two speicfically identified as being...
Dates:
Majority of material found within c. 1910 - 1911
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
War Newsclippings Scrapbook Collection
Record Group
Identifier: A0098
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1914 - 1946
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
WARBURTON, Warren Gilbert interviewed by Maree Wilkes
Record Group — Box: 27
Identifier: H0400
Dates:
2019
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
WARBURTON, Warren Gilbert interviewed by Beth Cairns
Record Group — Box: 62
Identifier: H0470
Overview
In this interview, Warren, who was born in Invercargill in 1921, recalls his childhood in the suburb of Heidelberg and his schooling. He mentions local small farms, Chinese gardeners, rabbiting and ferrets. Warren discusses home deliveries of bread, fish and milk. He talks about playing cricket and being a junior representative. He describes going to the Dunedin Exhibition in 1926. Warren talks about the drowning of his brother Len in 1925 while rowing on the estuary. He also mentions that his...
Dates:
1998
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
WARDEN, Gregory Francis interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen
Record Group — Box: 22
Identifier: H0195
Overview
This interview covers Gregory's early life in London and his time working and travelling in Europe and his move to New Zealand and then discusses living in Glengarry from the 1980s.
Dates:
2014
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
WARREN, Dorothy May interviewed by Gill Poplur
Record Group — Box: 14
Identifier: H0280
Overview
In this interview Dorothy covers many and varied topics including: historical buildings around Invercargill, the Gap Road Flax Mill, her education and the school frame work of the time, the Depression, preparations for war and hearing news of the war via the radio and cinema. As well as her social interests, marriage, life in the Winton Community and hobbies, which include antiques and genealogy. Dorothy established and managed the school Canteen at Central Southland College.
Dates:
2017
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
WATSON, Helen Anne interviewed by Judith Thomas
Record Group — Box: 61
Identifier: H0518
Dates:
2022
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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