Gloria Wilkinson's memories

In conversation

Gloria Wilkinson
Julie Piggot

Recorded: 2012
Length: 36:18

“I've still got that little basket. It was beautiful. I'd never seen anything so lovely in my life.”

About this conversation

Gloria Wilkinson remembers with her friend, Julie Piggot, the special gift she received the day the Duke of Gloucester visited Uralla in 1934.

Gloria Wilkinson shares memories of her life in and around Uralla, with her friend Julie Pigott. Gloria describes what Uralla was like when she was growing up and talks a little about life on her father's farm. She recounts the story of the Duke of Gloucester coming to Uralla in 1934, when she was a child, and shares humorous anecdotes from that visit. Gloria remembers some of her snake encounters as an adult on the property she and her husband, Bill Wilkinson, ran. She talks about life on the Wilkinson family orchard and how Bill's family started the orchard. Gloria and Julie share their respective memories and experiences of producing their own food and living sustainably, including fruit and vegetable growing and preserving, soap making, cheese and yoghurt making and the like.

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