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ORAL HISTORY (AUDIO): VAN LEEUWEN, HELEN

2010
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Helen Ann Van Leeuwen was born in Perth in 1945 and moved to Daglish in 1954. She talks about growing up in a house her father built that wasn’t fully finished, and of her impressions of the street after moving from Kalamunda. She recalls the games she would play the children on the street and the time she visited the aboriginal community in the middle of the bush. She talks about the changes that have been made to the house she grew up in. She talks about visiting Rokeby road and window shopping as well as the dances the dances she went to as a teenager where she eventually met her husband. She talks about how Daglish has changed as a suburb alongside but separate to Subiaco.
Interviewee: Helen Van Leeuwen
Date of Interview: 19 October 2010
Interviewer: John Bannister
Transcriber: Joer Blake April 2011
Indexer: Shelley Campbell

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Interview Recorded 19 October 2010

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