A Very Short History of Tennant Creek from a Woman's Point of View with audio
Kelham, Megg
Historical Buildings and Sites; HistoryNT
2012-06-06
Tennant Creek
A history of Tennent Creek's founding years as seen through the recorded letters of Francie Udall who lived in Tennant from 1930-1942.; 5 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
English
Local history -- Research -- Technique; Australia, Central -- History, Local
Meg Kelham
Alice Springs
application/pdf
Copyright
Meg Kelham
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Series/C1968A00063
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/238944
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/628681
The Aunt from Whoop Whoop Francie Udalls Letters From Tennant Creek Narrated and produced by Megg Kelham meggkel@yahoo.com Page 2 of 5 Click the sugar bag to view the media player. Click on to listen to an edited selection of Francies letters from 1937-1940 If you are annoyed by the sound of flies, just be thankful that you didnt have to live with them! They were so bad that even the most macho of Tennants miners wore fly veils until the 1970s when the African dung beetle was introduced and the worst of the problem disappeared. Francie at Barrow Creek: Havard Collection MAGNT PIC 048/012, Car history buffs might like to know that the engine noise you can hear whenever Francie and Jim travel anywhere is the sound of the actual truck which carried Francies letters to Tennant Creek in the 1930s. The truck is now part of at the National Transport Hall of Fame in Alice.
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