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The Twelfth Kitchen Tape

Happy Young couple
Trenna's Dad and Mum, Eddie and Jean, after they were engaged. 1947.

Recorded 5 May 2018

Sadness Warning

[GM: I found this perhaps the hardest transcript (as well as the hardest recording), both because of the sad content, and it shows how Trenna blocked out a few years from when her dad died until she went to Craig House. I don’t think when we started the conversation that either I or Trenna had any idea where it would lead.]

GM:  Today is Saturday, 5th of May 2018.  We’re talking with Trenna Mahney.… Read the rest ... “The Twelfth Kitchen Tape”

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1960s Craig House Kitchen Tapes Mofflyn Homes

The Kitchen Tapes #5

Trenna and Barb
Daggy Tren & Cool Barb [Trenna's words] 9 September 1968

Recorded 14 April 2018

GM:  OK, so we’re here with Trenna Mahney.  It’s the 14th of April,  2018. Tren, you were going to tell me about when you left Mofflyn Homes and went off to Craig House. 

THM: Alright.  It is a blurr.  That time in my life was lost to me a little.  I was well… I thought I only went to grade 1 when I was aged six at East Victoria Park Primary School, but apparently not.  I … Read the rest ... “The Kitchen Tapes #5”