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School Days & Memories of Kurri Kurri - Dorothy Temperley – 1988

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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.

The oral history tapes have been digitised and made freely available to the wider global research community thanks to the generosity of The Vera Deacon Regional History Fund.

SummaryInterview by Patricia Cowen in 1988 with Dorothy Temperley about her school days and memories of Kurri Kurri. Dorothy was born in 1912 at Kurri Kurri, her grandparents had moved to Kurri Kurri from Warialda in the North West, seeking work in the coal mines of the district. A clear and vivid description of her school days is given as she remembers daily routines and happenings of school life in those times. Included among them is the introduction of ink into the classrooms. This created the positions of boy and girl ink monitors, whose daily task was to mix the ink powder to the exact strength and to fill the china ink wells in the top of the desks. Last edited by: sarah

SubjectKurri Kurri (N.S.W) Last edited by: sarah

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PersonCowen, Patricia Last edited by: sarah

Temperley, Dorothy Last edited by: sarah

Interview logA7466A(x)_Temperley Last edited by: sarah

CollectionMargaret Henry Oral History ProjectDate Created1988 Last edited by: sarah

Location^[1] Last edited by: sarah

IdentifierA7466A(x)_Temperley Last edited by: sarah

A7466A(x)_Temperley.mp3

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School at East Maitland 81 secs
Kurri Kurri primary school 81 secs
Ink monitors and desks 47 secs
School magazines 76 secs
Student activities 46 secs
End of sixth class 45 secs
Travelling to Maitland for high school 61 secs
Spanish flu 78 secs
Games played 147 secs
Travelling to school 124 secs
Comparing primary schools 86 secs
School executions 34 secs
Leisure times 31 secs
Going to Newcastle tech 46 secs
Dressmaking 69 secs
Indigenous links of naming Kurri Kurri 55 secs
Family moved 24 secs
Growth 171 secs
Social activities 109 secs

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