John Brown interviewed by Alan Musgrove in the Alan Musgrove collection [sound recording]

John Brown, born 1903, in Colac, talks about his family background and family history; living on a farm at Leongatha South; money being scarce; living off the land; grandmother and mother both being a midwives; helping with household chores; home remedies, Epson salts etc.; accidents; surprise parties happening at the house, dancing; 1907-1909 Popular Tunes: Polka, Waltz, Alberts; the Green Mill, Dance Hall; the shooting of Koala's for their skins; Steve the Bullock driver; bullocks; the Murrimbah Dam; his love of physical work; Sir John Eccles; Convent school; odd jobs; his Mother constantly working; Woods Point railway; sports; no time for courting; spending 10 years in Brisbane; Cockatoo Mill; story about no work, no pay; story about the Mill; Police Strike 1921; weekend madness in Melbourne; exploits; building the house he's living in, and the flats next door; Albury cafě; the first electric tram in Lygon Street; Field Marshal Blamey; Silvie, his future wife; the days of the Depression; playing football; people travelling to play in different leagues, on horse drawn coaches that carried approx. 14 people; Queensland Town Hall.