Leonie Scope interviewed by Alex Hood and Annette Hood in the Alex Hood folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3707966
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Scope, Leonie, 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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- 2006
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 86 min.)
- Series:
- Alex Hood folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Leonie Cadelle Scope, born 1912, in Coffs Harbour speaks about her family's involvement in the Coramba Saw mill; Buchanan's Mill; bullockies; her family; Aborigines; children's games; the Rose family; snakes; schooling; religion; axe and crosscut saws; housekeeping; refers to song 'Tilda Tilbury'; learning to sew; moving to Sydney; her father working at the mill in Burwood; Charlie and Harry Hollebone; the Bird family; Charlie teaching all the family music. John Scope, born in 1945 talks about the banjo and mandolin; how the banjo and mandolin were popular in WWII; ukuleles and concertinas; harmonica bands; dances. Leonie speaks about writing their own music; an Industrial accident; how the Burwood house was always full of music; A L. Lloyd; the instruments and players; learning music; genealogy; set dancing; clothing; the family visiting Laurieton where the Bird family lived; visits from Kendall train station to the river; a poled barge; timber coming down the river; transport; Laurieton; a boat rescue; the punt to Dunbogan; Mervyn Bird; Bird Tree; spotting trees for timber; becoming an artist; her scholarship to East Sydney Tech.; not completing her studies.
Scope discusses meeting her future husband Ray in church; employment; her art studies; tennis; Ray working at Eveleigh Railway Workshop; Ray's tennis coaching; refers to books on railway workshop; after marrying living in Summer Hill; how Ray after finishing his apprenticeship left Everleigh but later returned; him being a first class blacksmith and welder. John tells how Ray began apprenticeship; how he worked in Bay 8 with Russian blacksmith; strikes; 'Scabs'; how he became a teacher at Granville Technical College; Bob Gebhardt; Ray's skills; Sid Buchanan; more on Ray's apprenticeship; John explains steam hammer operation; Leonie 'put art into cupboard' until her children left school; continually doing courses at Technical college, cooking, china painting; going to Hornsby Technical College; becoming a good china painter; her exhibitions; teaching; Ray's work away from home, giving her time to study; her children, Billy who died young and son John's illness; Howard Craven's Show; the Buchanan family; her happy life; also being a milliner and making bride's clothes; Dorrie Chee.
- Biography/History:
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Leonie 'Len' Scope was one of the large Buchanan family. Her father and grandfather were timbercutters and owned a timber mill at Coramba, northern NSW. Leonie became well known for her work as an artist in many fields especially china painting.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on May 20, 2006 at Forster, N.S.W.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-208947327
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (6 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Artists
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- Copyright:
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- Until 2076 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2006
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