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Oral history of Phyllis Margaret (Peggy) Atkins
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Collection SummaryThis interview with Peggy Atkins of Cotswold Road, Strathfield, took place on 19 June 1997. It is one of over 160 interviews conducted 1997-1999 to form Recording Ryde's Oral History Collection
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DescriptionPeggy Atkins provides details of growing up in Eastwood during the 1920s and 1930s. She includes information on Eastwood Public School, sport and social activities. Peggy also explains how her grandfather's business in Marrickville (where she and her father worked) went into voluntary liquidation during WWII and provides brief comments on her marriage and motherhood during the post-war years.
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SubjectsRecording Ryde's Oral History CollectionPhyllis Margaret (Peggy) Atkins--InterviewsPhyllis Margaret (Peggy) AtkinsEastwood Public School (Eastwood, NSW)Depressions--1929--Australia--Social conditions--Personal narrativesWorld War, 1939-1945--New South Wales--Ryde RegionFreemasons--New South Wales--Ryde RegionRecreation--New South Wales--Ryde RegionEastwood Swimming Baths (Eastwood, NSW)CollectionA-B
Phyllis Margaret (Peggy) Atkins--InterviewsPhyllis Margaret (Peggy) AtkinsEastwood Public School (Eastwood, NSW)Depressions--1929--Australia--Social conditions--Personal narrativesWorld War, 1939-1945--New South Wales--Ryde RegionFreemasons--New South Wales--Ryde RegionRecreation--New South Wales--Ryde RegionEastwood Swimming Baths (Eastwood, NSW)CollectionA-BOral history of Phyllis Margaret (Peggy) Atkins. Ryde History Hub, accessed 06/03/2026, https://historyhub.ryde.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/6277