Oral history
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 961 Collections and/or Records:
COLLINSON, Mary Ellen Wenham (Nellie) interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau
Record Group — Box 24
Identifier: H0377
Overview
Nellie was 95 at the time of this interview. She talks about her parents coming to New Zealand from the UK and arriving in Bluff. Her father was involved in the building part of the hospital in Invercargill when it was sited in Dee Street, the Mataura freezing works and the Royal Mail Hotel in Lumsden. Her mother, Grace Wilson, was very good at needlework. Nellie talks about her school days and games played as a child. On leaving school, Nellie went to work for H&J Smiths. She then nursed...
Dates:
1993
COOK, Robert Keith interviewed by Anne McCracken
Record Group — Box 42
Identifier: H0434
Dates:
2021
COPELAND, Margaret interviewed by Judith Thomas
Record Group — Box 5
Identifier: H0016
Overview
This is an extensive interview that covers Margaret’s memories of her family history, growing up in George Street and the history of Windsor. She covers early transport, social and recreational activities, food preparation, household chores and her passion for gardening. Education and employment history; illnesses of the time i.e. Influenza epidemic and diphtheria, challenges of building a home after the war with the lack of materials.
Dates:
2008
COPELAND, Margaret: Knitting (audio clip)
Digital Record
Identifier: DH00160001_ex1
Dates:
2008
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
COPELAND, Margaret: Watching Cars (audio clip)
Digital Record
Identifier: DH00160001_ex2
Dates:
2008
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
COSTIGAN, Leslie James (Les) interviewed by Seona Craig
Record Group — Box 32
Identifier: H0235
Overview
This interview is part of the Awarua Radio Communications Museum collection. In this interview Les tells of his employment at the Awarua Station where he lived in the hostel. He describes having to practice Morse code, the receiving and transmitting processes on older radio equipment, and receiving messages from ships all over the world. His job included manning the disaster watch for large ships using Morse code to provide safety for life at sea. He also describes Mayday calls. In 1974 he...
Dates:
2015
COTTER, Paul John and MUNRO, Barry Russell interviewed by Seona Craig
Record Group — Box 31
Identifier: H0232
Overview
This interview is part of the Awarua Radio Communications Museum collection. In this interview Paul and Barry recall and describe their experiences working for NZ Post Office as Radio Operators based at Awarua Radio, with some time each spent on the Chatham Islands and at Milford Sound. They also recall some of the emergency situations they were involved in e.g., distress calls from fisherman, steamships in distress and a call from a Frenchman sailing solo around the world. They describe the...
Dates:
2015
COWIE, Andrew Findlay interviewed by June Trotter
Record Group — Box 4
Identifier: H0036
Overview
This interview covers family history, property, family gatherings and growing up in a large extended family on the farm. Findlay talks of his education through to secondary school and his return to employment on the farm. He talks of the crops/seeds and early farming machinery and technologies. During the war Findlay was an Air Force mechanic and after the war he talks of marriage and returning to farming life.
Dates:
2006
COX, Andrew (Andy) interviewed by Chrissy Wickes
Record Group — Box 22
Identifier: H0394
Overview
This interview looks at Any Cox's involvement in the early days of kakapo recovery programme in Stewart Island and Fiordland and elsewhere.
Dates:
2019
COYLE, David John interviewed by Joy Lietze
Record Group — Box 28
Identifier: H0189
Overview
In this extensive interview David recalls his family history and life; World War 2, education and in employment. He goes in to detail about his employment in the timber industry in Tapanui covering aspects from the sawmills through to the selling of the timber off shore.
Dates:
2013
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