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...
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...