Bill Macdonald interviewed by Catherine Johnson in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 581528
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Macdonald, Bill, 1894-, 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 Oct. 16
- 3 sound cassettes (ca. 165 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Born in London, Macdonald speaks of his childhood memories; parents' background; father's employment and brief parliamentary career; his brothers and sisters; school experiences; employment in the theatre, working for father and for family barrister; family life, diet, family home and boarders; mother's role; family reading; playing chess; recreation; leaving for Sydney in 1911, the trip, arriving in Sydney, life with relatives; employment as a mechanics assistant, at Redfern Telephone Exchange and in two restaurants; lifestyle; memories of World War I, attempting to join up, Conscription; experiences working as an electrician at Mount Keira Colliery near Wollongong, mine operations, miners, accidents; communities of Mount Keira and Wollongong; his work; recreation; marriage; affect of the Depression; his wife; married life; 1917 general strike; parents coming out to Australia.
- 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-216296130
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and transcript available : 3 v. (30 p., 33 p., 23 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- Unpublished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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