Kilbirnie-Lyall Bay Community Centre oral history project.
(OHColl-0403)

Kilbirnie-Lyall Bay Community Centre oral history project.
Interviews by Hugo Manson
Commissioned by - Kilbirnie-Lyall Bay Community Centre in association with the Kilbirnie Library
OHColl-0403
1993
6 interviews - 17 tapes C60
Alexander Turnbull Library : Oral History Collection

Life history interviews with seven long-term residents of Kilbirnie and Lyall Bay. All participants have had long associations with the houses they lived in at the time of the interviews. Two still lived in the houses they were born in, another had lived in his house since he was four years old and two others were the children of the builders and lived in houses built by their fathers. Participants were born between 1910 and 1932 and discuss the houses they live in, often family homes; the shops and services available when they were children; changes in the two Wellington suburbs; family life, routines and relationships; their activities as children; and major events such as the Centennial Exhibition and the building of Wellington Airport at Rongotai.

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