Interview with Anne Angela Liddy [sound recording] Interviewer: Beth M. Robertson, Part 4 of 8

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CreatorLiddy, Anne Angela, 1901-1986Additional creatorRobertson, Beth M., 1957-TitleInterview with Anne Angela Liddy [sound recording] Interviewer: Beth M. Robertson, Part 4 of 8Date (year)1985Date recordedRecorded on 19 & 26 August 1985Description

Anne Liddy was born in Dawson into an Irish Catholic family 'with a genius for going to dry places where they don't make any money' (preliminary interview). In 1904 three generations of the family joined the exodus from the Upper North and became part of the 'second settlement' of Eyre Peninsula, taking up virgin scrub at Yallunda Flat near Tumby Bay. Anne Liddy left the Yalunda Flat School in 1914, the year that the family farm went bankrupt and her father became a railway ganger. Her first job, for six years, was as domestic and mother's helper for the family of the Tumby Bay Bank of Adelaide manager. After returning to help on her family's new share farm venture, she began nursing training at the Tumby Bay Hospital in 1923, recognising this as one of the very limited employment alternatives for local girls. Miss Liddy finished training at the Adelaide Hospital and began her career as a private nurse with the Royal British Nurses' Association in 1927

Recording length4 hours

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Collection titleS. A. Speaks': An Oral History of Life in South Australia before 1930SubjectLiddy, Anne Angela, 1901-1986Tumby Bay HospitalRoyal Adelaide Hospital (S.A.)Royal British Nurse's Association. South Australian BranchIrish -- South AustraliaFarmers -- South Australia -- Tumby Bay RegionNurses -- South AustraliaCatholics -- South Australia -- DawsonCatholics -- South Australia Tumby BayBankruptcy -- South AustraliaHousehold employees -- South Australia -- Tumby BayDroughts -- South AustraliaSingle womenYallunda Flat (S.A.)Tumby Bay (S.A.)

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Farm machinery - the reaper and the winnower cont. 57 secs
Bagging the wheat. 37 secs
Rain for a good year and bags to the acre. 73 secs
The 1914 drought causing many to relocate. 47 secs
Anne's horse-ride to the Moody property with ... 61 secs
Young men working on the Moody property. 68 secs
Anne's Yallunda Flat teachers. 87 secs
Yallunda Flat school - smoking fireplace. 26 secs
Kitchen water fountain description and baths ... 128 secs
Outdoor toilet behind the honeysuckle. 31 secs
Meal times and what was eaten. 61 secs
Some of the animals kept on the farm. 61 secs
Rowdy youngsters and saying Grace at the dinn... 52 secs
'A wallop on the bottom' - discipline from th... 34 secs
Anne's length of time at school. 52 secs
A bright girl, then not wanting to learn as a... 82 secs
Anne's access to books and reading a book for... 128 secs
Breakfast and the two mile walk to school. 44 secs
The frightening walk to school and being bullied. 59 secs
School routine and 'bloody' arithmetic. 90 secs
Classroom description. 58 secs
Boys and girls playing together. 38 secs
Corporal punishment - the cane. 19 secs
Anne's five (or six) teachers. 119 secs
Afternoon tea with old school friends and tea... 47 secs
School attendance. 21 secs
Helping out at home - 'I didn't do much'. 53 secs
Homework, play and sewing after school. 39 secs
A 'head full of woolly dreams'. 107 secs
Tumby Bay institute library. 41 secs

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Interview with Anne Angela Liddy [sound recording] Interviewer: Beth M. Robertson, Part 4 of 8