Since February of 2017, an English Conversation Club has been meeting at the Glenroy Library as a part of the ‘Libraries After Dark’ project. In June of 2019, the attending members shared their stories of migration to Moreland. Giovanni Giovanni was born in Calabria, a city in the South of Italy. In 1966 he travelled to Australia […]
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ReCollection – Meredith Lawrence and the Fawkner heart and soul singers
Edited transcript of interview with Meredith Lawrence, who established Fawkner Community House in 2000. I’ve been managing the community house for nearly 17 years and in fact, I set the house up. It was a lot of hard work, actually, we only had 15 hours of funding at the time. We had a building from […]
ReCollection – Rock ‘n’ roll, cars and happily ever after
Edited transcript of interview with Heather Cox. When I started to go with John, I wasn’t quite seventeen. It was at the beginning of Rock’n’Roll and all those sorts of things, when the music was changing. My cousin Richard first started us going over to the Westbreen Hall. They’d started a dancing school and he’d […]
ReCollection – Hard work, hardship and happiness
Edited transcript of interview with Heather Cox. I’m the eldest daughter of Evelyn Peachy and David Ennis. They were married in 1938 and they were together for quite a few years before they could afford to get married because there was no work around. He worked in a clay pit in Brunswick and they had […]
ReCollection – Farm life, adventure and strife
Edited transcript of the interview with Heather Cox. I was brought up with lots of animals. There were draft horses, a cow, geese, ducks, chickens, dogs, cats, and it was basically a farm. I was surrounded by aunts and uncles cousins and I had the best childhood ever. I was brought up in West Street […]
Migration stories – Glenroy conversation club
In October 2016 participants of the Glenroy library conversation club sat down and shared their stories of migration and home. Some were recent arrivals to Australia, while others have been here for many years. Syamala Syamala left her home in Bilaspur city, Chhattisgarh state, India to live with her daughter, son-in-law and grandson in […]
ReCollection – Education runs deep
Edited transcript of the interview with Dr. Sue Lopez Atkinson. I’m sue Lopez Atkinson. I’m a proud Yorta Yorta woman and I’ve lived in Moreland for over 50 years. Starting off in Coburg as a child [and] moving out when I got married when I was very young and then returning to Brunswick […]
Frank Cox – Merri Creek at Coburg
Friends of Merri Creek have been conducting oral history interviews with residents who have lived on the Creek before 1970. The interviews form the Merri Creek Oral History Project. This is an interview with Frank Cox who, as a Coburg Councillor for many years, had an influence on the improvements on the Creek. The interviewer is […]
Brendan Casey – Merri Creek at Fawkner
Friends of Merri Creek have been conducting oral history interviews with residents who have lived on the Creek before 1970. The interviews form the Merri Creek Oral History Project. This is an interview with Brendan Casey who lived near the Merri Creek in Lovely Street Fawkner in his youth. The interviewer is Des Shiel. The date […]
Pauline Atkins – Merri Creek at West Preston
Friends of Merri Creek have been conducting oral history interviews with residents who have lived on the Creek before 1970. The interviews form the Merri Creek Oral History Project. This is an interview with Pauline Atkins, who lived on the Oakover Estate, West Preston, from the 1930’s to the 1950’s. The interviewer is Des Shiel, and […]