Kennedy, Bart part 1. Interview on working at the Western Union Telegraph Station in Bay Roberts.

• Main Author: Wilson, Lisa
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Migration/settlement; Work; Cable Stations; Houses; Kennedy; Bart; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/4641

"General introduction; 1959 received job offer with Western Union; Lived on Cable Avenue (#4) 1962; 1966 when office closed, moved out; Bought #9 and lived there for 10 years; Sold in 1981; Description of house; Information about coal furnace; Coal stored in basement; Delivered by Dawe’s coal on Coley’s Point by horse and boxcart; Comparing an oil and coal furnace; Current house modeled on Cable Ave house; Layout of Cable Ave houses; Information about cable work; Other residents: Harry Dawe (#2); Tom Brien (#6); James Burke; Bobby Mercer as a resident; Ted Starr (#3), Wallace Farnham, Ron Starr (#7), Purchased #9 in 1970 for $4,000.00; Rent $12.00; Social life on the street; Personal history; Importance of heritage; Disappointed about cable station; Churches in the community; Changes to avenue; Street lamps; Trees on the avenue; Stresses when cable office closed; Father was a fisherman on Southern Shore; Didn’t want children to be fishermen; #8 had a fire (Andrea Wall’s place); Plaster interiors; Superintendent’s house ownership history; Cemetery graves were moved when houses went in; Friends with Richard Morrissey. "