Archive Record
Metadata
Title |
Oral History recording of Miss Irene Gweevere Olorenshaw |
Collection |
Oral History |
Scope & Content |
Oral History recording of Miss Irene Gwenevere Olorenshaw Memories include Early Childhood, Nursing at Oamaru Hospital (1930 - 1939), her War service (1939 - 1945), as a Nurse and Matron at Oamaru (1945 to 1964) and Senior Citizens Club. In her early childhood memories she speaks of life as a child at Willowbridge and her school days at Arno and travel to Waimate High School via train. Working on the farm, harvesting & milking. Shopping in Waimate. Mobile shop. Amongst her Nursing days she also did Midwifery at Wellington, also nursed at Dunedin, London, Oamaru. Recording April 2000 |
Object Name |
Audiocassette |
Date |
April 2000 |
Search Terms |
Fire Brigade Football Hospital Chapel Kapua School Knox Hall Methodist Church National Council of Women Nurse Nursing Olympia Hall Oral History Salvation Army Senior Citizens St Patrick's Hall Studholme Waimate Borough Council War Service World War II WW2 WWII |
People |
Bathgate, Dr Borrie Breed Brown, Bevan Dr Deal, Elaine Douglas, Lennox Jennings Kennard, Ivy Laing Mackie Matheson McMaster, Myra O'Brian, Desmond Ogilvie Olorenshaw, Charles Olorenshaw, Charles Maxwell Olorenshaw, Ena Olorenshaw, Irene Gwenevere Olorenshaw, Joy Olorenshaw, Myra Pitts, AG Puttick, Eva Riddle, Ena Robinson Williams, Joy |
Subjects |
Fire Brigade Football Hospital Chapel Kapua School Knox Hall Methodist Church National Council of Women Nurse Nursing Olympia Hall Oral History Salvation Army Senior Citizens St Patrick's Hall Studholme Waimate Borough Council War Service World War II WW2 WWII |
Catalog Number |
OH32 |