John Mongan interviewed by Lucy Taksa in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2050133
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Mongan, John, 1906-, 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 Mar. 19
- 3 sound cassettes (ca. 135 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Born at Darlington, Sydney, Mongan speaks of the suburb of Darlington now taken up by Campus of Sydney University; parents' background; extended family; family fruit shop; death of eldest brother in World War I; recreation; school; reading material at home and use of Sydney Library in Queen Victoria Building; employment experiences; life and work on a dairy farm on Richmond River; working in fish markets; interests in working class politics; leaving school; detailed memories of 1917 strike; meeting wife; the Depression; his own family; experiences, conditions, lifestyle working on railways; social life; involvement with unions; death of Flangham and union members at funeral; communist party and politics of 20's and 30's; changes to railways during 1920's; railway management; brothers and sisters and their employment.
- 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-216183398
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (8 p.) and transcript available: 3 v. (44 p., 35 p., 5 p.).
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1987
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