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Life in Morpeth - Mary Lantry - July 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 Jill Nean in 1988 with Mary Lantry about her life in the Morpeth area.

Mary was born in 1908 at Brookfield near Dungog, when she married in 1927 she moved to Morpeth where she has resided for the past 46 years. She described her early life on her parents' dairy farm.

Mary discusses the various businesses in Morpeth over the decades, there were 18 hotels, Bowthorn Butter Factory, Sims Metal Foundry and described the port of Morpeth as a "hive of activity". Last edited by: sarah