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Jenny Olsson Part 1 - Growing up in Palmerston North - Manawatu Conversations
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Broadcast on 28th January 2020. Part 1 of 2. Father’s memories of Palmerston North from early 1900s. Horse-drawn tram carrying metal for roads. The 1941 flood. Stop banks, dredging. Father grew flowers in nursery (A J Shailer). Flown commercially to South Island. Selling dahlia tubers. The market for flowers. Living on 10 acres at Whakarongo, lambing beats. Children’s activities, work, safety. Effects of floods. Town-country divide? Building on good farmland. Growth of the city. Trains dirtying washing. Blue bags for washing, Sunlight soap. Few clothes. Baths. Episode with a stove.
Identification
- Object type
- Audio
- Date
- January 28, 2020
Creation
- Created By
- Stuart Birks
- Place
- Palmerston North
Object rights
- License
- By Attribution Alone
Taxonomy
- Community Tags
- 1941 flood
- 1950s
- flower growing
- oral history
- trains