Interview with Linda Pool about the dairy industry - 1988 (sound bite)

Short sound bite created for "Home Grown in the Hunter" Exhibition (Wall#4). Full interview available HERE

Interview by Doug Biddle in 1988 with Linda Pool about her life growing up in Raymond Terrace and the dairy industry. Linda was born in 1904, she lived on a dairy farm on the banks of the Hunter River, in the Raymond Terrace area and attended school at Raymond Terrace. She remained on dairy farms after she married. Linda described how the milk went to the Raymond Terrace Dairy Co-operative and when the Co-operative moved to Hexham and became the Oak Factory the milk went there. The milk was collected by contractors on horse drawn wagons or by boat and taken to the factory.

The Margaret Henry Oral History Archive is a collection of audio tapes, transcripts, summaries and essays that were part of the Oral Histories Open Foundation Course (1986-1989). Margaret Henry was a history lecturer at the UON in the 1980s.