Sister Bridget and Sister Rosina

Sister Bridget and Sister Rosina

by | 3 Feb 2022 | Oral History Project

    Download the Transcript: FHS-Sister-RosinaSister-Bridget-2015 Beginning in 1972, Sister Bridget and Sister Rosina of the Sisters of Mercy have taught the waves of new migrant children coming to Fitzroy. The children may not have had any English, but they...

Sister Fidelis and Sister Amalia

by | 3 Feb 2022 | Oral History Project

  Download the Transcript: FHS-Sister-FidelisSister-Amalia-2015 Sister Fidelis and Sister Amalia are Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity, part of a small group who came out to Fitzroy from India in 1970 with Mother Teresa to open a community house in Gore...
Sam Marasco

Sam Marasco

by | 3 Feb 2022 | Oral History Project

    Download the Transcript: FHS-Sam-Marasco-2016 Sam Marasco came to Fitzroy as an 18-month old from Calabria in the mid-1950s and has lived here ever since. He talks about his childhood, games they played, the street life and selling papers from the age of...

Rose Mary Brondolino

by | 3 Feb 2022 | Oral History Project

  Download the Transcript: FHS-Rose-Mary-Brondolino-2015 Rose Mary Brondolino, who conducts a law practice in Fitzroy, talks about her very early years in southern Italy before she came to Fitzroy in the mid-1950s. She provides anecdotes and descriptions of her...
Rose Chong

Rose Chong

by | 3 Feb 2022 | Oral History Project

    Download the Transcript: FHS-Rose-Chong-2015 Rose Chong describes herself as “a maker”. She studied dressmaking and then design at an art school in the UK, and opened her costume store on Gertrude Street in 1979, making costumes for the film industry,...
Peter Williams

Peter Williams

by | 3 Feb 2022 | Oral History Project

    Download the Transcript: FHS-Peter-Williams-2015 Peter Williams speaks about the history of Moran & Cato’s manufacturing grocers and wholesalers located in Brunswick Street Fitzroy, which was the centre for a large grocery chain throughout Melbourne and...