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PUBLIC TALK: Friends of the UWA Library Speaker

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Friends of the UWA Library Speaker : Shopping in Perth: Memories of Bon Marché Other events...
About the talk

For most women before 1960, ‘shopping in Perth’ meant donning hat and gloves and driving or catching the bus or tram ‘into town’ to visit their favourite department store. Bargains, advertised in a local paper or on the radio, checked out it was time for tea and cake in the store’s tearoom…

This presentation will celebrate the era of Perth’s early family-owned department stores, particularly Bon Marché. Established in 1884 as ‘The Bon Marche’, it was the oldest of the stores, evolving from ‘cheap and cash’ to ‘elite and quality’ until taken over by David Jones in 1954.

Memories of former customers, staff and families of staff and the directors offer fascinating insights into what it was like shopping and working in Bon Marché and Perth in the 1940s and 1950s.

About the Speaker

Hilaire Natt taught Media Studies at Edith Cowan University and since her retirement enjoys researching family and local history. She is a library volunteer with the Royal W.A. Historical Society and edits the newsletter for the Oral History Association (WA). The Bon Marché project, a spin off from family history research, won the inaugural City of Perth Library History Award in 2012.

Members free, Non-Members $5 donation.
Speaker(s) Hilaire Natt (Local Historian)
Location Reid Library Ground Floor Meeting Room, UWA
Contact Susan O'Connor <[email protected]> : 6488 2354
Start Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:00
End Tue, 09 Sep 2014 21:00
Submitted by Susan O'Connor <[email protected]>
Last Updated Tue, 02 Sep 2014 14:13
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