Bee Miles oral history interview by James Ricketson

MLOH 535

fonds

25 August 1973

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

957865

Digitised

4 audiocassettes (4 hr., 27 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

Bee (Beatrice) Miles born in Ashfield, Sydney was a well known eccentric in Sydney of no known address. Miles became notable for her outrageous, disruptive conduct in public places, and criticism of political and social authorities. In 1964 due to ill health she entered the Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged at Randwick.
Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography

MLOH 535/1 Side A (46 min.):
Bea Miles, notable eccentric, is interviewed in 1973 just prior to her death at the ‘Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged’ in Randwick.

MLOH 535/1 Side B is blank.

MLOH 535/2 Side A (31 min.):
Bea Miles, notable eccentric, is interviewed in 1973 just prior to her death at the ‘Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged’ in Randwick.

MLOH 535/2 Side B (8 min.):
Bea Miles, notable eccentric, is interviewed in 1973 just prior to her death at the ‘Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged’ in Randwick.

MLOH 535/3 Side A (44 min.):
Bea Miles, notable eccentric, is interviewed in 1973 just prior to her death at the ‘Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged’ in Randwick.

MLOH 535/3 Side B (47 min.):
Bea Miles, notable eccentric, is interviewed in 1973 just prior to her death at the ‘Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged’ in Randwick.

MLOH 535/4 Side A (42 min.):
Bea Miles, notable eccentric, is interviewed in 1973 just prior to her death at the ‘Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged’ in Randwick.

MLOH 535/4 Side B (47 min.):
Bea Miles, notable eccentric, is interviewed in 1973 just prior to her death at the ‘Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged’ in Randwick.

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The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.

Copy available at CY MLOH 535/1-4
Transcript available in Mitchell Library Reading Room
MLOH 535/1 Side A: Recorded in Randwick on 25 August 1973

MLOH 535/2 Side A: Recorded in Randwick on 25 August 1973

MLOH 535/2 Side B: Recorded in Randwick on 25 August 1973

MLOH 535/3 Side A: Recorded in Randwick on 25 August 1973

MLOH 535/3 Side B: Recorded in Randwick on 25 August 1973

MLOH 535/4 Side A: Recorded in Randwick on 25 August 1973

MLOH 535/4 Side B: Recorded in Randwick on 25 August 1973
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Interviewer: Ricketson, James
Interviewee: Miles, Bee, 1902-1973

MLOH 535/1 Side A: Dirt under pressure pad, stickiness from old labels on cassette case; cleaned by SLNSW Collection Care April 2015.
MLOH 535/1 Side B is blank.
MLOH 535/2 Side A: Stickiness from old labels on cassette case; cleaned by SLNSW Collection Care April 2015.
MLOH 535/2 Side B: Stickiness from old labels on cassette case; cleaned by SLNSW Collection Care April 2015.
MLOH 535/4 Side A: Stickiness from old labels on cassette case; cleaned by SLNSW Collection Care April 2015.
MLOH 535/4 Side B: Stickiness from old labels on cassette case; cleaned by SLNSW Collection Care April 2015.