John Drummond interviewed by Judy Wing in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 566577
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Drummond, John, 1903-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1987 June 23
- 3 sound cassettes (ca. 155 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Born at West Ham, London, Drummond speaks of his parents' background; coming to Australia with family; living in Sydney; description of homes; death of father from Typhoid fever; mother's employment; life in Princess Street in The Rocks; local environment and its inhabitants; living conditions; family poverty; diet; experience at school; childhood memories; clothes; lifestyle during childhood with working mother; violence and crime in The Rocks community; local gangs; moving to Surry Hills when threatened to be placed in a boys home; recreation; stowing away on a ship with mother's help and being put ashore without mother in Colombo; church; immigrants and attitudes to them; historical events he remembers; children's games; working at Arnotts biscuit factory; conditions, work, machinery; working in England as a journeyman millwright; other employment in Australia; meeting wife; marriage; children; married life; flappers; life in the 20's; WWI.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Recorded by the NSW Bicentennial Oral History Project, funded by a bicentennial grant to the NSW Council on the Ageing and the Oral History Association of Australia (NSW).
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-216216352
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (5 p.) and transcript available: 3 v. (35 p., 40 p., 29 p.).
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- Until 2057 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1987
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