Cora Flemming interviewed by Stephen Rapley [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2167426
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Flemming, Cora, 1895-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access to be determined.
- Description:
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- 1987 July 13
- 2 cassettes (ca. 120 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Born in Orange, N.S.W., Flemming speaks of her parents' background; father's employment at Lucknow Mine, stories of local community; memories of World War I; relatives; her grandfather; description of mining towns - Bagtowns; family home at Shadforth (3 miles from Lucknow); family history and convict background; brothers and sisters; death of a small sister; father moving family to small holding at Emu Swamp in the bush; school memories, harsh conditions and discipline given by drunken headmaster; attending school in Sydney for 3 months; family life; meeting her husband; family values; married life; class consciousness; changes to family after moving onto farm; family politics; childhood reading; their first wireless; her children; her husband; religion; religious bigotry; health; stories of life on farm, locking house at night; courtship, marriage in 1914; family relationships; death of husband; conscription; relations and lifestyle with husband; living with her parents until 1939; flu epidemic 1919; strikes; living in Lithgow; conditions for coal miners.
- Notes:
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- Transcript unavailable.
- 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).
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (5 p.).
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1987
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