8 page programme booklet for the Bendigo Hospital Sesquicentenary Celebrations. 21st and 22nd November 2003. Includes B&W, sepia and colour photos.Bendigo Health

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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 DepressionNotes of Chat with Shirley Mainstone - There was no taped interview.history, bendigo, michele matthews collection, the 1930s depression tapes, shirley mainstone

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 DepressionTwo pages of Interviewee List.history, bendigo, michele matthews collection, the 1930s depression tapes

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 DepressionQuestions, Notes and Prompts for the interviews.history, bendigo, michele matthews collection, the 1930s depression tapes

a/ Music Advancement Society of Bendigo, Second Concert 1956, Town Hall, Bendigo. The Pascal String Quartet. (Official String Quartet of the French National Radio). Violin: Jacques Dumont, Maurice Crut, Walter Gerhardt. 'Cello: Robert Salles. Monday, 23rd April, 1956. 8.15pm. Hon. Secs. Madge Edgar, Mary Stanistreet. Programme. Advertisments: Allan's, Allan's Walk, Bendigo. Frank J. Every & Sons, Hargreaves Street, Bendigo. Phone 874. Edgars', 293 Hargreaves St., Bendigo. Phone 238. b/ Music Advancement Society of Bendigo, Wednesday, 10th April, 1957. Darrenin String Quartet. Hon Secs.: Madge Edgar, Mary Stanistreet. Programme. Advertisements: Frank J Every & Sons. Hargreaves St., Bendigo, Ph. 874. A C Hampton, Mitchell St., Bendigo, Ph. 241. Edgars Autorised Newsagency. 293 Hargreaves St. Bendigo, Ph. 238. c/ Music Advancement Society of Bendigo, Presents the Third Concert 1957 series. Brian Hansford, Baritone, Graeme Buchanan, Piano. Town Hall, Bendigo. Wednesday, 25th September, 1957, 8.15 pm. Hon. Secs.: Madge Edgar, Mary Stanistreet. Advertising Phillips and Deutsche Recordings available at Allan's, Allan's Walk, Bendigo. A C Hampton, Newsagent stationer, Mitchell Street, Bendigo. Ph 241. Edgars' Authorised Newsagency. 293 Hargreaves St., Bendigo. Telephone 238. d/ Music Advancement Society of Bendigo Presents the First Concert 1959. Presenting Nancy Weir, Pianist. City Hall, Bendigo. Wednesday, 11th March, 1959. Hon. Secs. : Madge Edgar, Mary Stanistreet. Advertisements: Allan's A C Hampton, Edgars'. Pinned inside newspaper article titled 'Pianist Held Audience. Nancy Weir enthralled her bendigo Audience in the City Hall when she opened the 1959 concert series for the Music Advancement Society. Miss Weirs' 7th visit to Bendigo, 5 of them under the auspices of the MASB. Her unaffected style, her great reserves of strength for one so diminutive . . . Name of newspaper not included.Bolton Bros. Pty Ltd., Printers, Bendigoprogram, theatre, music advancement society of bendig, a/ music advancement society of bendigo, second concert 1956, town hall, bendigo. the pascal string quartet. (official string quartet of the french national radio). violin: jacques dumont, maurice crut, walter gerhardt. 'cello: robert salles. april, 1956. stanistreet. programme. advertisments: allan's. frank j. every & sons. b/ 1957. darrenin string quartet. advertisements: a c hampton. edgars autorised newsagency. c/ presents the third concert 1957 series. brian hansford, baritone, graeme buchanan, piano. 1957. advertising: phillips and deutsche recordings available. a c hampton, newsagent stationer. d/ first concert 1959. nancy weir, pianist. 11th march, 1959.. advertisements: edgars'. pinned inside newspaper article titled 'pianist held audience. nancy weir enthralled her bendigo audience in the city hall when she opened the 1959 concert series for the music advancement society. miss weirs' 7th visit to bendigo, 5 of them under the auspices of the masb

Amy Huxtable was born at Cheltenham in 1918, to Robert Henry Huxtable and Violet a Dagg. Her father was an installer for an oil company and travelled the State. taking his family with him. She completed her education at the Bendigo High School and later attended the Bendigo Business College, becoming an expert shorthand writer. Her first position was as a copy writer with Radio 3BO, in the mid 1930s. She worked with an advertising agency in Melbourne and then with the Age,newspaper. In 1953, Miss Huxtable was appointed temporarily to succeed Miss E B Millane as social editress of the Bendigo Advertiser, during the latter's absence abroad. In 1956, Amy travelled abroad and on her return in 1957 was appointed permanently as Women's editor, a position she held for twenty-three ears. During her early years with The Advertiser she wrote under the name Toora, but in later years her own name became widely known. Miss Huxtable was well known both in her professional capacity and through a interest and involvement in community activites. She was life governor of the Bendigo Hospital, the Bendigo Home for the Aged, and Mirridong Home for the Blind, she was a member of Soroptimist International and the Business and Professional Women's Club. Amy was also a tireless worker for the spastic society and a strong supporter of the YWCA. When Amy Huxtable died at Mt AJvernia Hospital on 16 January 1980 Mayor Campbell ordered the city flag to be flown at half-mast. "Lowering the flag is the least we can do for such a lady" Cr Campbell said. Douglas Lockwood, editor of the Bendigo Advertiser said, "She was a devot d colleague who gave her craft and her newspaper the kind of service which identified a rare and generous spirit." She was a true professional who decided to make Bendigo her home. More than 300 people packed St Paul's Church for her funeral ervice the bell tolled as the casket was carried from the church. At a ceremony in the Conservatory Gardens on No ember 22 1981 The Amy Huxtable Memorial Committee presented to the City of Bendigo, a garden seat in memory of the late Miss Huxtable. This Bendigo manufactured seat was a fitting tribute to one ofBendigo's most loved and esteemed citizens. All Miss Huxtable's Advertiser articles were microfilmed and presented to the Library by the above committee. Invitations to the Amy Huxtable Memorial Lunches and presentation of the Memorial History Awards - three invitations from the Bendigo Historical Society to attend the luncheons at Dudley House, 60 View Street Bendigo.history, amy huxtable, bendigo, amy huxtable memorial history awards

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