Henry Field interviewed by Margaret Miller in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2056479
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Field, Henry, 1908-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1987 Feb. 26
- 2 sound cassettes (ca. 90 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Born at Birmingham, England, Field speaks of his family background; parents; family relationships; childhood; recreation; school; WWI ; employment, work and conditions after leaving school; coming to Australia in 1925 under the Dreadnought Scheme; experiences travelling out by ship; experiences living at Scheyville training farm; working on dairy farm at Kempsey, NSW, work experiences and conditions, opinions of Australia at first; working in Sydney at a plating company, work and conditions; meeting wife in 1930; working at Carrington Hotel, Katoomba.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- 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).
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-216166694
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (3 p.) and transcript available : 2 v. (44 p., 14 p.).
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- Until 2057 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1987
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