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Shirley Traynor Interview

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Collection SummaryShirley Traynor and her family came to Woronora in 1935 after the death of her father when she was four. They moved into the weekender at Woronora that had just been built by her father. In this interview she talks about life in Woronora from the 1930s to the 1980s.BiographyShirley Herniman was born at Forest Lodge on 3 February 1931. She married John Traynor in 1949 and they subdivided the block and built their house at the back of her mother’s property. They remained in Woronora until 1985, when they sold their house and moved to Kirrawee.SynopsisInterview Topics: Coming to Woronora in 1935; Life on the Woronora pre-World War II; School, chores, transport and shopping; Woronora was a Bush Paradise before development; Work and the War; Floods and bushfires; Marriage; Woronora Life Saving Club, 1940s; Living and raising children in Woronora in the 1950s; Working at ANSTO; Leaving Woronora in 1985; Reflections on changes in Woronora.

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Oral History AudioShirley Traynor InterviewDate of interview28th August 2012IntervieweeShirley TraynorDate of birth3rd February 1931InterviewerElizabeth CraigSupporting materialShirley Traynor Interview Log Sheet

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PlaceWoronoraSubjectsTraynor, ShirleyCollectionTelling it as it was