Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Audio (collection) - The 1930s Depression Tapes - Nancy Betteridge, Michele Matthews, 2005
... 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 Depression history Bendigo Michele Matthews Collection The 1930s Depression Tapes Nancy Lenton Nancy Betteridge Oral History Interview Audio tape interview with Nancy Betteridge (Nee Lenton). Nancy lived in fifteen different addresses in Bendigo throughout her lifetime. She married John Alexander Betteridge in 1951. Her father did odd jobs and sustenance work before getting a permanent job at the Bendigo Preserving Company. She went to St Joseph's Catholic School (1930-31) and St Kilian's ...
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