Street Stories - Market gardens & dairies of Kew

Travel back in time and listen to stories of Kew's past market gardeners and dairies. Interviewees in this episode are: Mavis Nickell Frank Mason   Boroondara Library Service presents: Street Stories This Oral History project was edited in 2026 from the City of Boroondara Library Service Heritage Collection Local History Archive. Interviews were conducted by Geraldine McFarlane in the years 1993 and 1994 as part of the Oral history project Voices of Camberwell. The interviewees in this project are Mavis Nickell, Edna De Clifford, Esmond Kinnear, Bruce Steele, Charles Hansen, Jack McLean, Joan Thorn, Lillian Brockway, Marjorie Batey, Eileen Hall, Lorraine Carrington, Bob Partington, Gil Muling, Vera lynch, Leila St John, Mr & Mrs Frank Mason, Syd Dodman, Dorothy Prestegar, Harold Oakford. Edited by Jane Harvey. Music sampled from the following recordings: "Wild Orchids" 1929, "City Lights" 1931, "Sunrise - A Song of Two Humans" 1927. Courtesy of The Popular Jazz Archive. CC Image: Milk cart belonging to Mary L. Deering driven by her son John T. Deering with Jimmy Hillard outside Mr. Rooney's House, St. John's Avenue, c.1920s, Boroondara Library Service, Boroondara Heritage Collection, LHCPH 905