Alp, Kenneth Alfred
Production date
1995
Description
Oral history. Kenneth (Ken) Alfred Alp (1908-2001) talks about Holy Trinity Church, Fitzroy. Gives personal backgound. Church organist at Holy Trinity for 25 years. Talks of church funds, was parish treasurer. Pays tribute to Norton Moller. Fred Cook purchases a new organ for the church. Church alterations, Parish Hall rebuilt, Te Henui Vicarage. Old organ is at the Rest Home. Names various vicars who served at Holy Trinity. Describes strict upbringing re church. WWI and childhood memories.
Recorded: 7 August 1995 Interviewer: Shirley Adams
Object detail
Part 1
Research Tape Side 1
Born 1908, Hornchurch, Essex, England
Talks of involvement in Holy Trinity, Fitzroy. Gives personal backgound - part of the Church of England Emigration scheme. Describes working in various places and came to New Plymouth 1950. Also mentions the Napier earthquake. Was church organist at Holy Trinity for 25 years. Talks of church funds, was parish treasurer. Pays tribute to Norton Moller. Fred Cook purchases a new organ for the church. Church alterations, Parish Hall rebuilt, Te Henui Vicarage, Lecturn donated by Miss Lees, choir robes and painting by Rae Burton 1994.
Tape 1 Side 2
Still plays the organ. Rev David Harrison visit Highland Lodge. Old organ is at the Resthome. Used to be paid for playing at weddings and funerals. Names various vicars who served at Holy Trinity. Describes strict upbringing re church. WWI and childhood memories. Also talks of his children.
Recorded: 7 August 1995
Interviewer: Shirley Adams
Abstraction: Jan Wilks
Part 2
Master tape
Part 3
Abstract
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This was my father I have never heard these before.
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