Phyllis Darmanin interviewed by Paula Hamilton in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2087635
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Darmanin, Phyllis, 1907-, 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 June 24
- 3 sound cassettes (ca. 135 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Born at Maidstone, England, Darmanin speaks of her parents' background; father's employment; brothers and sisters; family coming to Australia in 1912; the trip; memories of arrival; family land allocation in Goulburn Valley, Victoria; the farm, fruit growing; family life; childhood memories; diet; childhood games; school; World War I; childhood reading; church; leaving school; employment as a maid; her health; experiences as a live-in maid/baby minder, work and conditions, lifestyle and living conditions of employers in the country; domestic routine and chores; working in a fruit cannery; family moving to Melbourne; domestic work in Melbourne; lifestyle, recreation, joining YWCA; the Depression; differences between domestic work in country and city; travelling to England; meeting her husband; employment experiences in Sydney as a cook/maid at Rose Bay; lifestyle, social life; politics; products used during her work; her wedding; married life in Glebe; birth of her son.
- 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-216257989
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (5 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- Unpublished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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