In 2005 Michele Matthews interviewed current and former residents of Bendigo for her thesis on the 1930s Depression as part of her PhD Research, with the University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts, History Department. Michele interviewed fifteen members of prominent Bendigonian families. The thesis was titled: "How Depressing?: The impact of the Great Depression on Bendigo and District 1925-1935". The Michele Matthews Collection contains fourteen audio cassette tape recordings and one written transcript. The tapes are each approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes duration. The questions presented to the interviewees explore everyday experiences they would have lived through at the time of the Depression. The questions covered sixteen relevant subjects: • Introduction and housing • Social activities, swimming, cinemas, school and games played with friends • Organizations such as the RSL, Relief Committees etc. and any effect they had on family life • The life of the single woman • Unemployment and Employment • Government Assistance • Charities Aid • Self-help • People Power, e.g. boycotts or protests • Politics • Trouble or crime • Family Health, Medical and Diet • Education • General memories of, and hardships encountered, during the DepressionAudio tape interview with Lillian Lenore Taylor (Nee Carey). Daughter of Gordon Wilfred Carey (who was a wheat and oats farmer at Prairie then a dairy farmer at Mandurang and also a letter carver at Bendigo) and Charlotte Lillian Grylls. Lillian was born in 1922 and attended school at Prairie State School, 1928-1929, and Mandurang. She did domestic arts at Bendigo 1923-1933. Lenore married Norman Henry Taylor in 1943. The tape has been converted to a sound file. The 90 minute interview can be listened to, and the notes viewed, at the Bendigo Historical Society. By appointment only. Also included are four handwritten pages by Lenore of the depression and war years.history, bendigo, michele matthews collection, the 1930s depression tapes, lillian lenore taylor

photograph of J.La Gerche. from the E.J.Semmens collection, University of Melbourne Archives, Semmens photograph collection no.102/90. accompanying letter from Angela Taylor to Ron Hately 1995Photograph

A series of 10 ABC radio talks originally broadcast under the title "The Murray Darling System, 5000 Miles of history and prehistory. The series was produced in the Melbourne studios of the ABC by Ken TaylorBeige cover. Australian river scene on front cover. Information on the work of the author Edmund T. Gill on back cover.river systems

A photocopy taken from the original minutes on the Belgrave South Primary School's photocopier at the request of the Southern Sherbrooke HS, with the permission of Dick Bartley, Principal of the school, and the assistance of Frankie Taylor, AdministartionA3 photocopy of Belgrave Sth Primary School Committee minute book. Vol. I - March 1914 then from March 1919 to July 1924. Vol. II - August 1924 - March 1926 Vol. III - April 1926 - November 1936 Vol. IV - November 1936 - October 1940 Vol. V - December 1940 - November 1945Vol. I - "2.3.1914 (one meeting) then 20/3/19 - 23/7/24" written on top of first page in black biro.education - primary