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Home / Oral Histories/Oral histories

Oral histories

Alex Gray

Alf Mundy

Alf Tierney

Darebin Memories - The migrant stories

Italian and Greek post war migration
During the mid 1980s a number of Italian and Greek post war migrants were interviewed their stories are recorded.

Now for the first time in over thirty years you will be able to hear their stories in their own words.

Darebin Memories - Oral history transcripts

These collections of oral histories reflect the lives of average working people living in Darebin in the 1930's, 40s and 50s. Their stories reflect their shared experiences and values. It also reflects the primarily white, Anglo-Saxon composition of Darebin during those years

Donald Thompson

Don and Maisie Baker Interview Part Two

Don and Maisie Baker with Walter Dey - Part One

Doris Butcher

Ernest Henry Lee

George Henwood

Joan Clinnick

June Phyllis Meadows Burr

Les Atkins

Lexie Luly

Mal Mooney

Marjorie Wheeler

Maurice O'Keefe

Merv Lia

Mr. Harold Harless

Mr & Mrs Dennis

Mrs. Bade

Mrs C. Jones

Mrs. Edna Daniels

Myra Bostock

Northcote Lives - an Oral History Project

Peter Lamb of Preston

Roy Keeble

Sylvia Cooke

Sylvie Wayman

Vignettes from Veronica

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