Pat DeRango

Pat DeRango

by | 3 Feb 2022 | Oral History Project

    Download the Transcript: FHS-Pat-DeRango-2016 Pat DeRango’s mother came from Tipperary in Ireland, and towards the end of their life her parents lived in Hanover Street where she was born. As a child she did not venture far from home and was forbidden by...
Michael Gawenda

Michael Gawenda

by | 3 Feb 2022 | Oral History Project

    Download the Transcript: FHS-Michael-Gawenda-2016 Michael Gawenda, a journalist and former editor of The Age, spent his early childhood in Gore Street, where his parents owned a corner store. He particularly remembered the freedom allowed the children,...
Menka Simmonds

Menka Simmonds

by | 3 Feb 2022 | Oral History Project

    Download the Transcript: FHS-Menka-Simmonds-2015 Menka Simmonds arrived in Australia in 1948 from Macedonia and due to the need for her mother to work, left school after only two and a half years to look after her little sister. One of her early...
Laurie O’Brien

Laurie O’Brien

by | 3 Feb 2022 | Oral History Project

    Download the Transcript: FHS-Laurie-OBrien-2015 Laurie O’Brien lived at 35 Hanover Street from 1957 to 2002. Laurie is a foundation member of the Fitzroy History Society. The architecturally significant House at 35 Hanover Street with a National Trust...
Ivy Dawson

Ivy Dawson

by | 2 Feb 2022 | Oral History Project

    Download the Transcript: FHS-Ivy-Dawson-2016 Ivy Dawson has lived in Fitzroy for 74 years, moving into 62 Gore Street at the age of 12 (a house which she and her husband eventually bought for £1500). She left school at 12 and kept house for her father...
Dorothy McInroy

Dorothy McInroy

by | 2 Feb 2022 | Oral History Project

    Download the Transcript: FHS-Dorothy-McInroy-2015 Dorothy McInroy’s mother left an unhappy marriage in the country and moved with her six children into Argyle Street, Fitzroy when Dot was eleven. She tells of her family, her schooldays and her working...