Victor Jeffery interviewed by Matthew Higgins in the Tharwa oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2258440
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Jeffery, Victor, 1909-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2 July 1993
- 4 sound tape reels (ca. 133 min.) ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Tharwa oral history project.
- Summary:
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Mr Jeffery speaks of wool carrying; the store in Tharwa; fencing the Nursery Swamp; controlling rabbits; building the Mt Franklin Road; building the concrete piers of the Tharwa and Burbong bridges; the sandwash; Naas and Molonglo River bridges; use of horse and dray in road maintenance; building his house in Tharwa; introduction of graders; floods; Jack Rusden; huts; building roads to Bobiong and Corin Dam; P&C meetings; dances; bands; police; extension of the hall; Progress Association; cricket and tennis clubs; the Sheedys; contracts for school transport; school teachers; the school bell and grounds; 1939 bushfire; introduction of electricity; clearing snow from roads.
- Biography/History:
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Mr Jeffery was a resident of Tharwa in the 1920s-1950s.
- Notes:
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- Part of a project undertaken by the Tharwa Primary School in conjunction with the National Library of Australia.
- Recorded in Canberra.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (7 p.).
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Higgins, Matthew, 1957-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Tharwa oral history project.
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- Until 2063 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1993
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