Auckland Harbour Bridge oral history project interview with Bob Isgrove

Object detail

Accession number

10-0293

Maker

Bob Isgrove
Megan Hutching

Description

Oral history interview with Bob Isgrove covering family history, immigration to New Zealand and working life, focused on work as a labourer on building Auckland harbour bridge. Contains information about laying the concrete road surface of bridge, and his later service in the Royal New Zealand Navy.

Media/Materials

Processed Material/Synthetic/Plastic

Physical description

1 sound disc (ca. 71 minutes) : digital

Credit line

Bob Isgrove et al. 18 May 2009. Auckland Harbour Bridge oral history project interview with Bob Isgrove, 10-0293. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

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Classification

Disk, Optical Videodisc, Digital Tools & Equipment for Communication Data Processing T&E Data Processing Media

Production place

Meadowbank Auckland City Auckland District Auckland New Zealand

Subject: all levels

Interviews Isgrove, Robert Achilles Anecdotes Auckland Harbour Bridge Anecdotes Design and construction New Zealand Bridges Anecdotes Concrete Anecdotes World War, 1914-1918 Sound recording and reproducing

Collection type

Audio Visual Walsh Memorial Library

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