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Patricia Colless was born on 1st April, 1922, at Croydon in Sydney. At age 11, Pat moved to Penrith with her family. After getting married at age 23, Pat had two children and lived firstly in Lethbridge Street Penrith, and then at Lapstone.

Patricia Parker was born on 19th August, 1937, at the Paddington Women's Hospital in Sydney. Patricia moved to Blacktown with her husband and three children in the mid-1950s at age 21. Both Patricia and her husband joined the Communist Party, and…

Rita Camilleri was born in Malta and arrived in Australia in 1939, at age 15 years. Prior to that, her father had been in Australia for twelve years, working to save enough money to bring his family to join him. Rita's father owned a market garden in…

Sheila Nottley was born on 12th June, 1908, on a farming property near Kempsey. When Sheila was three months old, her mother died. Sheila moved to Sydney in 1945, firstly to Eastern Creek where she and her husband ran a dairy. They moved to Mt Druitt…

Thelma Masters was born on 28th June, 1927. When Thelma was aged eight, her mother died. For a while, Thelma, her brothers and her father moved in with her grandmother at Parklea, but then moved back to their original home. This left a large amount…

Winsome Phillis was born on 5th March, 1929, at Riverstone. Winsome's father worked at the Riverstone Meatworks and the family lived in a house they had built in Regent Street, Riverstone. After leaving school at age 15, Phillis completed a…

WESTERN SYDNEY WOMEN’S ORAL HISTORY PROJECT "FROM FARMS TO FREEWAYS -WOMEN'S MEMORIES OF WESTERN SYDNEY" The Women's Research Centre has been awarded an Australian Research Council Small Grant to conduct a historical and sociological investigation of…

DID YOU LIVE IN PENRITH OR BLACKTOWN IN THE 1950’S? IF SO, YOU MAY BE INTERESTEDTO SHARE YOUR MEMORIES OF THOSETIMES! The Women's Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney Nepean. is currently conducting interviews for an oral history…

Outline of questions for conducting oral history interviews.

10 Brock Avenue, ST. MARYS. 2760 9th March, 1992 Dear Robyn,Thank you for the tape and typed transcript which arrived recently and which I enjoyed reading and hearing. I’m sorry I was so hesitant in parts of the typed interview. I’m enclosing a list…