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![William Street, Sydney 1966 ~ William Street, Sydney, 1966. David Moore. 35 mm colour transparency. SLIDES 84/1/1500 [Catalogue IE Number: IE1110275 / File Number: FL1110287]](https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/customers/1276/images/7.jpg "William Street, Sydney 1966 ~ William Street, Sydney, 1966. David Moore. 35 mm colour transparency. SLIDES 84/1/1500 [Catalogue IE Number: IE1110275 / File Number: FL1110287]")
Janet Morice and Andrew Starr, residents of inner-Sydney Paddington, took as inspiration historian Max Kelly's key work on the history of their suburb. Over 100 interviews look at the processes of change in the area and cover topics as diverse as 1950s migration, the formation of the ‘bohemian’ Paddington Markets, 'green' open space and property values. Long term and recently arrived residents of the suburb were interviewed between 1997 and 2000, ranging in age from 14 to 97 years. The interviews formed the basis for Morice and Starr’s book Paddington Stories, published in 2000.
Some of our Oral History items are accompanied by a ‘transcript’ while others have what is called an ‘interview log’.
A transcript is a full, verbatim recording of the interview, word by word.
A log is a summary of topics covered in the interview usually listed by the time they appear in the interview. For example “1:56 Discusses early family life” tells you that at just under 2 minutes into the interview the interviewee discusses their home life when a child.
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