Mosman Voices - oral histories online

The Depression

  • Betty Kennard - interviewed by Eve Klein, 5 March 2001
    Subject: The Depression, Games
    Betty Kennard. Yes it was. We were quite comfortable, we had help in the house and for some of the time we had a car. That was before The Depression. There were othe…
  • Betty Kennard - interviewed by Eve Klein, 5 March 2001
    Subject: The Depression
    Eve Klein. What other deprivations do you recall? Betty Kennard. We lived in a small house in ‘The Grove’, only two bedrooms, and my mother didn’t have a washing…
  • Dallas Dyson - interviewed by Eve Klein, 6 August 2001
    Subject: The Depression, Spit Junction
    Eve Klein. Now we’re talking about the 1930s and you were then about 12 years old. Did it affect your schooling? Dallas Dyson. Yes. Eve Klein. In which way? Da…
  • Hazel Maclean - interviewed by Yolande Pierce, 31 January 1989
    Subject: The Depression
    Yolande Pierce. Well during the Depression, did life dramatically change for your family? Hazel Maclean. Well, it changed rather dramatically for me. We had a rea…