Muir McGlashen
Transcript of the oral history interview with Muir McGlashen.
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Abstract
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Muir was the Richmond Borough Mayor between 1962 and 1974. He was awarded an MBE in 1972. |
Points of Interest
- Richmond School - teachers, school uniforms, pupil-teachers
- Children's games - hoops, marbles
- Queen Street, Richmond
- Queen Street drainage - The Ditch and The Pipe, culverts
- Beach Road area - Hart's Reserve, 'night soil' grounds
- The Railway Station - train times, school children's antics on the trains, Harry Dent
- The A & P showgrounds - The Otterson Gums, World War I epidemic hospital, the grandstands
- Peace Celebrations following World War I
- Richmond stock yards
- Gladstone Road - The Toot Line
- Croucher's Mills, shops and farm
- Council paying for Bird eggs and bird's heads
- The Star and Garter
- The Blacksmith's shop
- Fire fighting - insurance plates on the front of buildings, fire bell in York Place
- The Murchison Earthquake
- Inflation after the World War II
Interview Information
- Date of Interview: 23 July 1984
- Interviewer: No interviewer is listed
- Length of Transcript: 110 Pages
- Notes: The transcript ends suddenly, it is only part 1 of the full interview
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