Marjorie Wilton interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton about her childhood during the Second World War

Marjorie Wilton interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton about her childhood in Caulfield, Vic, during the Second World War. Topics discussed include her father's change in profession due to lack of building materials; living at Caulfield Racecourse, and as a builder at Puckpunyal; her mother's wartime hairstyles; blackout windows; household routines such as weekly bathing; encounters with ill soldiers at the Racecourse; the availability of beer in wartime; her mother being employed during the war and how this changed family life; attending the cinema at Caulfield; celebrating VE Day in the city; newsreels; perceptions of the effects of the war on the Japanese populace; postwar horseracing culture in Melbourne; availability of flour and dripping, and the inventiveness of women in managing limited food supplies.