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Showing posts with label Oral History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oral History. Show all posts
Tuesday, 6 September 2022

Within their lifetimes: a 20th Century of Change - part one of two

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  From Tauranga City Library’s archives A monthly blog about interesting items in our collection The mix of mirth and indignation is a stran...
Friday, 15 March 2019

The Battle for Rangataua Bay

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Maungatapu, c.1960 Image courtesy of Tauranga City Library, Ref. 00-152 Our home in Welcome Bay looked out over beautiful Rangataua Bay...
Friday, 11 January 2019

Taffy Davies

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Taffy Davies. Interviewed by Peg Cummins in 2007. Taffy Davies (Senior) brought his family to Mount Maunganui in 1930 when Taffy (Junior) ...
Friday, 9 November 2018

Joy Drayton

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This story by Peg Cummins was taken from an interview with Joy Drayton conducted about ten years ago. Joy was Prinicpal of Tauranga Girls’...
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Friday, 5 October 2018

Recollections of Wynnton Poole in 1997

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Holy Trinity (Anglican) Church, Devonport Road, Tauranga, built 1875 Photograph taken c.1902 by unidentified photographer Image courtesy...
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Monday, 6 April 2015

The History of Welcome Bay, by Peg Cummins

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Five years ago, just after I had finished my sixth book of local history, I decided to do something I’d not done before.  I would write a...
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Friday, 14 November 2014

Tauranga’s Past Captured on Tape

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In 1988 James Hartstonge, broadcaster, Village Radio volunteer, and founder of the Tauranga District Museum Oral History Unit, wrote: “ Al...