Frank Blomfield interviewed by Stephen Rapley in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 565648
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Blomfield, Frank, 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 22
- 2 sound cassettes (ca. 120 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Born at Bathurst, N.S.W., Blomfield speaks of his parents' background; family home; family life; recreation and lesiure; family discipline and values; local community; celebrations and social life; religion and religious conflict during childhood; family reading; school and education; studying pharmacy at University and pharmacy apprenticeship; lifestyle; women in the course; organisations he belonged to; work conditions as a pharmacist; social life; health and fitness; flu epidemic; his work, supplies, experiences dispensing; meeting wife; courtship, marriage, wife's background; their children; births; his involvement with Rotary; World War I; Ben Chifley as friend and customer; working for gaols; politics; flappers; pharmacy guild; immigrants; Aboriginals; memories of early radio.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Recorded by the N.S.W Bicentennial Oral History Project, funded by a bicentennial grant to the NSW Council on the Ageing and the Oral History Association of Australia (N.S.W.).
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-216237504
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and transcript available.
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This belongs to the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
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- Until 2057 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1987
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