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Transcript: Miss Marjorie Tebb remembers the Chinese hawkers in Liverpool

Transcript: Mr Pat Cullen remembers using charcoal burners in cars during World War II

Transcript: Mrs Florence Starr recalls making garden stakes for Chinese market gardeners in Austral

Transcript: Mrs Jessie La Trobe describes delivering newspapers to military camps during WWII

Harry's Cafe de Wheels

Bush, Beatrice Olive

King, William Francis (Flying pieman)

'7 o'clock - Milk' from 'The Hours of the Day in Sydney' September 1879

A baker delivering bread in Tramvale, Marrickville, during the late heavy rains and floods in Sydney June 1889

A cliff-face stair-way, Darlinghurst c1886

Cabramatta 2009

Chinese fruit and vegetable hawker c1895

Flower seller in Martin Place, Sydney, 1961

Flower sellers and trams on King Street c1890

Flower sellers in Martin Place c1940

For the Festive Season - Christmas bells and bush. Flower seller in Martin Place 20 December 1933

Fruit stall in Springfield Avenue 26 May 1933

Man busking with a one-string fiddle made from a kerosene tin, Sydney, 1929

Newspaper seller in Castlereagh Street c1940

Park Street, Sydney c1900

Pitt St at Lyceum Theatre [and Tattersall's Hotel]

Public meeting at Macquarie Place during the election 1857

Scene in the Strand Arcade 1982

Selling the War Cry on Saturday night at Paddy's Market 1884

Spiffliwinks, who has just received an appointment upon a Scientific Journal, takes lodgings in a street in Darlinghurst, anxious to secure quiet and seclusion from the turmoil of the clty 1882

The flying pieman (William Francis King) 1847

Unemployed match-seller's sign, Sydney c1935

Miss Marjorie Tebb remembers the Chinese hawkers in Liverpool in the 1920s, interviewed in 1986

Mrs Jessie La Trobe describes delivering newspapers to military camps during World War II, interviewed in 1986

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Mobile economy and street vendors

Transcript: Miss Marjorie Tebb remembers the Chinese hawkers in Liverpool

Miss Marjorie Tebb was born in 1920 and interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' Here Miss Tebb remembers one of the Chinese hawkers who sold their wares door-to-door in Liverpool in the early twentieth century.

Transcript: Mr Pat Cullen remembers using charcoal burners in cars during World War II

Mr Pat Cullen was born in 1912 and was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960' project. Here he remembers the charcoal burners that were used to replace petrol in cars during World War II.

Transcript: Mrs Florence Starr recalls making garden stakes for Chinese market gardeners in Austral

Mrs Florence Starr was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' She came to live in the suburb of Austral in 1925 when she was first married, at the age of seventeen. She recalls making garden stakes for Chinese market gardeners in the area.

Transcript: Mrs Jessie La Trobe describes delivering newspapers to military camps during WWII

Mrs Jessie La Trobe, who was born in 1910, was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' Her family owned a news agency in Liverpool and here she describes delivering newspapers to local military camps during the World War II.

Harry's Cafe de Wheels

Pie cart which has become an iconic tourist attraction and late night food stop for generations of Sydneysiders and visiting sailors. Now in a fixed location at Woolloomooloo it was started by Harry Edwards and has been visited by many celebrities some of whom are remembered in the murals on the cart.

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Bush, Beatrice Olive

Rozelle woman who for 25 years sold newspapers seven days a week from the traffic island at the intersection of Victoria Road and The Crescent, White Bay.

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King, William Francis (Flying pieman)

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Athlete and pie seller, who achieved many feats of pedestrian prowess during the 1840s and became a well known street character in Sydney.

'7 o'clock - Milk' from 'The Hours of the Day in Sydney' September 1879

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[TN115 (detail)]

(Illustrated Sydney News, 6 September 1879, p12)

A baker delivering bread in Tramvale, Marrickville, during the late heavy rains and floods in Sydney June 1889

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Australian Town and Country Journal, 8 June 1889, p27)

A cliff-face stair-way, Darlinghurst c1886

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By

Frederic B Schell

Contributed By

Internet Archive

[australasiaillus01garruoft_0225]

(From 'Australasia illustrated' edited by Andrew Garran ; illustrated by leading Australian and American artists, under the supervision of Frederic B. Schell, with over eight hundred engravings on wood, Sydney : Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co., 1892)

Cabramatta 2009

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By

Jenny McInerney

Contributed By

Private collection

Chinese fruit and vegetable hawker c1895

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an24615958]

Flower seller in Martin Place, Sydney, 1961

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Contributed By

National Archives of Australia

[A1200, L38879]

Flower sellers and trams on King Street c1890

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a568023 / DL PX 163, 57]

(Dixson Library)

Flower sellers in Martin Place c1940

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By

Harold Cazneaux

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a2057025 / PXD 806/25]

(Mitchell Library)

For the Festive Season - Christmas bells and bush. Flower seller in Martin Place 20 December 1933

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.news-article17034498 via Trove]

(The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 December 1933, p12)

Fruit stall in Springfield Avenue 26 May 1933

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[001\001809]

(NSCA CRS 51/1586)

Man busking with a one-string fiddle made from a kerosene tin, Sydney, 1929

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By

Jorma Pohjanpalo

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[PIC/14446/12 LOC Nitrate store PIC/14446]

Newspaper seller in Castlereagh Street c1940

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By

Harold Cazneaux

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a2057020 / PXD 806/20]

(Mitchell Library)

Park Street, Sydney c1900

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an23780507]

Pitt St at Lyceum Theatre [and Tattersall's Hotel]

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[DL PX 163, 68]

(Dixson Library)

Public meeting at Macquarie Place during the election 1857

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By

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an8021127]

Scene in the Strand Arcade 1982

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Contributed By

National Archives of Australia

[A6180, 13/12/82/18]

Selling the War Cry on Saturday night at Paddy's Market 1884

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Illustrated Sydney News, 12 April 1884 p 13)

Spiffliwinks, who has just received an appointment upon a Scientific Journal, takes lodgings in a street in Darlinghurst, anxious ...

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By

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[Sydney Punch, 4 March 1882, p82 via Trove]

The flying pieman (William Francis King) 1847

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By

William Nicholas

Contributed By

National Gallery of Australia

[Accession No: NGA 87.1643]

(Purchased 1987)

Unemployed match-seller's sign, Sydney c1935

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[hood_33000 / Home and Away 33000]

Miss Marjorie Tebb remembers the Chinese hawkers in Liverpool in the 1920s, interviewed in 1986

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Miss Marjorie Tebb was born in 1920 and interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' Here Miss Tebb remembers one of the Chinese hawkers who sold their wares door-to-door in Liverpool in the early twentieth century.
Transcript

INTERVIEWER: Do you recall any Chinese in the area?

MARJORIE: Oh yes, yes. The Chinese used to come around with a vegetable cart; used to come around twice a week. They had a big vegetable garden out the back of Prestons out there, and he used to come. He had the scales on this spring cart and the horse. And he'd come in: 'Anytink today ladee?' he'd say, 'Anytink today ladee?' He'd always give me a piece of fruit or something.

INTERVIEWER: Can you recall his name?

MARJORIE: Oh we always used to call him 'Charlie', and he always had the pigtail and it was done up under his hat because he'd go back to China to die. And they couldn't go back if they didn't have the pigtail.

INTERVIEWER: What sort of hat did he wear?

MARJORIE: A little round cap.

INTERVIEWER: He didn't wear a bamboo one?

MARJORIE: No.

Contributed By

Liverpool City Library

(Excerpt from interview with Miss Marjorie Tebb for 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900-1960' conducted in 1986 by Liverpool City Council, editor and project co-ordinator Catherine Johnson ; researchers Angela Imbrosciano, Verica Miiosavijevic, Kathleen Smith.)

Mrs Jessie La Trobe describes delivering newspapers to military camps during World War II, interviewed in 1986

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Mrs Jessie La Trobe, who was born in 1910, was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' Her family owned a newsagency in Liverpool and here she describes delivering newspapers to local military camps during World War II.

Transcript

JESSIE: We had all the camps to do and down there, where all the houses are now on the left hand side, near Warwick Farm Station, before you cross the bridge, that was a big army camp. It was the British navy that really had it and they called it the 'Golden Hind' and they treated it like a ship. When they went in the gate they went 'onboard', when they came out they came 'ashore'. Then we had the Americans in the centre of Warwick Farm racecourse so we had all that to do, and all the extra people who were about. We had nothing to do with Moorebank and Ingleburn as far as papers went but there were a lot about, a lot of people in the street. I still have my pass to go aboard the Golden Hind. They gave me a pass because we used to have to take papers in to the boys, the paperboys. I used to have to pick the papers up at the railway station, Warwick Farm railway, and take them and deliver them into the camps to the boys in different parts of the camps because they were big camps, and take them down, and then the boys would ride their bikes back here and check their money in.

Contributed By

Liverpool City Library

(Excerpt from interview with Mrs Jessie La Trobe in 'Looking back at Liverpool : an oral history of the Liverpool region 1900-1960' conducted in 1986 by Liverpool City Council, editor and project co-ordinator Catherine Johnson; researchers Angela Imbrosciano, Verica Miiosavijevic, Kathleen Smith)

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