Marge Crawford interviewed by Rob Linn in the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project [sound recording]

Marge Crawford talk about her memories of childhood; her maternal grandparents and parents; rural life and family background; parents' relationship; father's trades and occupations; WWII and family involvement; her schooling; her love of sport on the radio; her father's illness, tuberculosis; his building of a bark hut for his family; furnishings, cooking; sourcing food from local farmers; the arrival of police to take her and her siblings, moving children into care; Royal Park, Vic. institution; the Ballarat home, impressions of; buildings; being apart from her siblings; fights; concerts; daily duties and constant work; dormitory at night; hunger and food; the cold and clothing; staff; punishments; parental contact; her education; retreating into books; Ballarat Girls Secondary School; her love of study and teacher encouragement; Christmas holidays at Queenscliff; running away from orphanage (aged 16) and treatment on return; the lack of preparation for life; being sent to Melbourne to work and living at hostel in Brighton, Vic.; her employment history; relationships with males; renting a flat with friends; Wards of the State; marriages and pregnancies; divorce; living with her mother; her later move to rural Victoria; Bob Golding; accessing her government files (1988); her mother's death; her involvement in interest groups and CLAN; a reunion at orphanage (1956); photographs; family relationships; stories from other wards and orphans who suffered abuse, the role of punishment in institutions; her display in an art exhibition; her interest in crafts and exhibition of felting work; Royal Melbourne Show prizes; the effects of the orphanage years on her life; Frank Golding.