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Georgette Wall Interview

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Georgette Wall Oral History

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BiographyGeorgette Wall, nee Cobbold, Gymea Bay, later Como resident. She died 2009.SynopsisGeorgette Wall's father worked as the live-in groundskeeper at Cliffhaven in Yowie Bay for years, where she spent a lot of her childhood. In this interview Georgette recalls those years and shares some insight into the building of Cliffhaven. She talks primarily about her parents and her childhood.

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Parents' meeting in France then marriage.
Family moving to Australia in 1924.
Different homes and father's jobs including Catts at Yowie Bay/Miranda 1932-1936.
Great Depression years.
Boarding school.
Father working and family living at Cliffhaven, overlooking Gymea Bay.
Marriage to Tim Wall and home at Como.

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Oral History AudioGeorgette Wall InterviewDate of interview10 December 1992IntervieweeGeorgette WallInterviewerMerle Kavanagh

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PlaceYowie BaySubjectsWall, GeorgetteCollectionHidden History