Trove Tuesday - Sounds of the Past

By searching in the Music, Audio & Video category on Trove once can access recordings of interviews and news broadcasts featuring Lake Macquarie people from earlier times. Among the many treasures indexed and linked on Trove are numerous items from the ABC and other sources.

Click on the following links, found via a Trove search today in Music, Audio & Video category, to hear some recordings relating to local people.

Beatrice Carr interviewed by Peter Hempenstall in the Australia 1938 oral history project
Summary

Carr speaks of her family background; background in England; family coming to Australia; her marriage; school memories; family relations; lifestyle with husband; employment; home and living conditions during 1930s; recreation; Cardiff, N.S.W. during 1930s; religion; relations with Aborigines; childbirth; childcare; health care.

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-199640634/listen

Golden sailors buoyed by Wangi wanderers

Summary

Australia's fifth gold medal at the London Olympics has come came from sailing duo Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen. It's not only another success story from the sailing team, but also a testament to the great sailing breeding ground that is Lake Macquarie, on the New South Wales central coast. The gold medallists were buoyed by a large contingent of Lake Macquarie residents who travelled to Weymouth, the site of the Olympic sailing course.

2012-08-09. Golden sailors buoyed by Wangi wanderers, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/worldtoday/golden-sailors-buoyed-by-wangi-wanderers/4188328

Ray Blissett interviewed by Stephen Rapley in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection
Summary
Born at Bollaroo (sic) on Lake Macquarie, NSW, Blissett speaks of his childhood memories; father's employment as a bullocky; family moving to Walagam in 1912, family life; family moving around Newcastle district; family homes; memories of grandmother's home at Speers Point; parents' background; grandparents; recreation; family experiences during World War 1; living conditions; discipline ; employment; death of father in accident; memories of forests around Berry and Cambewarra Mountain; school relatives; employment in father's greengrocers in Eastwood, Sydney; scouting experiences; local community around Eastwood; parents selling business and returning to Newcastle celebrations; visit by Prince of Wales; transport; two-up games; employment in timber industry in Annangrove district, work, conditions, horse transport; joining the police force; religion; marriage; discrimination in force because wife was Catholic; courting his wife; work and experience in the police force, women in the force, conditions; experiences in riot control; timber workers strike; CIB; crime and criminals in Sydney including Tilly Devine and Kate Lee, brothels, politics; boxing and keeping fit; his career in the police force; police training; opinions of force today; drugs, crime today.

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-216363690/listen

Mary MacKillop miracle woman speaks out
Summary

A New South Wales woman whose recovery from cancer was deemed Mary MacKillop's second miracle has spoken publicly for the first time Kathleen Evans from Lake Macquarie is a grandmother of 20.

https://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2010/s2789958.htm