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Bluff School
Record Group
Identifier: A0139
School status
Open school [1867 - present]
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1882 - 1989
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
Blyth Family Collection
Record Group
Identifier: A0723
Processing Information
This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for full details of collection content.
It includes photos of:
Peter A. Blyth outside his Blacksmith shop, Winton with his father James, c.1890s, as well as Peter in the Winton Brass Band c.1892.
Images of World War II from Robert Ewen Blyth (WWII 117830).
It includes photos of:
Peter A. Blyth outside his Blacksmith shop, Winton with his father James, c.1890s, as well as Peter in the Winton Brass Band c.1892.
Images of World War II from Robert Ewen Blyth (WWII 117830).
Dates:
Majority of material found within c.1892 - c.1945
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
BOKSER, Beth interviewed by Jenny Campbell
Record Group — Box: 28
Identifier: H0182
Overview
Beth recalls her family history, education and living on a farm at Wairio. Her employment included: aiding at the Nightcaps Maternity Hospital, Nursemaid at Mt. Linton for the McGregor family, and working at the local bakery. She describes wages and cost of items of the time as well as social activities and the meeting of and marrying her husband. She discusses his employment in transport and mining and her concerns for him in his occupation of 40 years in the mines. She goes on to recall...
Dates:
2013
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BOLGER, Montague Graham (Monty) interviewed by Edna McKelvie
Record Group — Box: 57
Identifier: H0611
Overview
Montague Bolger was born in Christchurch in 1910. Mentions his Irish grandparents meeting on the journey to New Zealand and subsequently having four sons. Notes that his parents John and Ethel had six sons. Recalls his father's employment at Costers coal mine, the Mataura Freezing Works and on their farm on the Mataura Winton road. Describes attending the Mataura School and leaving at the age of fourteen. Talks about working as engine driver at Rowes coal mine where his father was manager....
Dates:
1998
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BOND, Ria Iris Daphne interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen
Record Group — Box: 34
Identifier: H0219
Overview
This interview is part of the "Discovering Glengarry’s Community Spirit" project. In this interview Ria recalls family history, early life and move with family to Invercargill from Christchurch. She recalls growing up in Glengarry and what made Glengarry a connected place. She reflects on Glengarry now. Ria also details her career as a hairdresser and her move into politics.
Dates:
2014
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BOOTH, Vincent Paul (Tinny) interviewed by Jenny Campbell
Record Group — Box: 3
Identifier: H0001
Overview
The interview covers Mr Booth's childhood in Nightcaps, farming at Bowmont Station, and work at the coal mines.
Dates:
2009
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BOOTH, Vincent Paul (Tinny) interviewed by Jenny Campbell
Record Group — Box: 28
Identifier: H0184
Overview
In this interview Vincent recalls his life and work in the mines around Nightcaps and Ohai for forty years. He also talks of the retail outlets in Nightcaps and latterly their decline, his interest in rugby, home ownership, marriage and friends.
Dates:
2013
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BOYLE, Norma Ruth interviewed by Jenny Campbell
Record Group — Box: 4
Identifier: H0034
Overview
Norma describes her personal education history at Tuatapere School, Dux of Nightcaps District School, attendances at Southland Girls High and later to training College. She talks of teaching techniques and outlines her teaching career as well as comparing the current education system with past.
Dates:
2007
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BRADLEY, Norah Kathleen Interviewed by Margaret Ann Irving
Record Group — Box: 43
Identifier: H0464
Dates:
2005 - 2006
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BRADSHAW, Rex Lindsay John interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 51
Identifier: H0551
Overview
Rex grew up in the 1930s on Stewart Island surrounded by the sea and people whose lives were ruled by the tides and the weather. Despite his mothers’ efforts to prevent him going into an industry that had taken the lives of some of her immediate family, Rex spent nearly 50 years making a living from the seas around his childhood home and along the Fiordland Coast. He remembers a time when crayfish were considered not worth catching. In this profile he gives an account of those early days and...
Dates:
2004
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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