Interview with Barbara Haynes [sound recording] Interviewer : Madeleine Regan, Part 1 of 2

Interview with Barbara Haynes. Barbara was born on 22 April 1935 in Adelaide to parents who were market gardeners in St James Park (now Kidman Park). Themes Barbara covers in the second interview include: growing up next to the River Torrens; the structure her father supplied to enable people to cross the River before the bridge was built linking Findon Road and Rowells Road in the 1930s; floods; yabbying; riding her pony in the area alongside market gardens; weekly trips to her aunt and uncle's shack on Henley Beach foreshore in summer; going to the city with her mother for shopping, visits to the zoo and her parents' social life. Barbara also speaks about her early working life in an office; the exemption to assist her father to plant celery when her brother did three months national service; meeting her husband at 16 years; marriage at 18 years; moving into a new Housing Trust house on Grange Road in 1954; describes what the area looked like when she moved in; explains that it was not possible for women to work after getting married. She also recalls some of the Chinese and Italian market gardeners near her parents' garden. Her father retired from growing celery in 1959; sold part of the land to Independent Grocers and kept some land and grew flowers and plants. Barbara recalls the new girls' high school built at Kidman Park (1966); the area of market gardens; increased housing; working in the school canteen; employment in a local greengrocer's shop. She reflects on the major changes in the local area in her lifetime; loss of market gardens and benefits of living in the area.