There was a time when jobs were easy to get. Pat recalls those days in the late 1950's and early 1960's.
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Pat recalls her early married life in the late 1950's in Adelaide...
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Pat recalls the emotion and fear of the unkown when she began work and had to leave the orhnage.
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Pat describes her jouney to Australia in 1948 on the SS Ormonde. On the voyage she was befriended by a kindly man and his family Mr. Fallong, that helped make her journey much more enjoyable.
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Pat relays how she learned in 1946 at the age of 13 that she may be selected to journey to Australia to live, She spent the next couple of years learning about Australia and overcoming her fears about such a long journey. On 17th December 1948 she left Nazareth House, her...
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Pat talks about her life in the Nazareth House orphange in Plymouth, Devon. Here she recalls the schooling she received, a far cry from school in 2013.
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Pat recalls her early teenage years at Nazareth House Orphange in Plymouth, Devon.
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As Nazareth House, the orphange in which Pat lived, had a no pet policy Pat has chosen to talk about the people who she looked up to at the Orphange.
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Pat's neighbours when she lived in the orphanage at Plymouth, were the Marines. And one Guy Fawkes Day the children were invited to share the celebrations organised by the Marines.
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Pat's early schooling was at the Nazareth House orphange and from the age of 12 she went to a local High School.
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Pat recalls living at Nazareth House Orphanage in Plymouth during the war years and afterwards.
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Pat continues her story about her childhood in the Nazareth House orphanage in Plymouth, Devon.
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Pat spent the first three years of her life in the norsery of the orphange where she had been put by her mother - Nazareth House, Plymouth, Devon. Pat shares this story with the Life Story Circle.....
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Pat recalls the trauma and joy of discovering her extended family after so many years of knowing only that she was an orphan.
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Pat has no personal memories of her parents because of the circumstances surrounding her birth.
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Being an orphan Pat has few memories of her parents, let alone her grandparents. Here Pat recalls what she has managed to learn about her grandfather - the Laughing Policeman.
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Pat recalls Christmas 1938 which she spent in Nazareth House, a orphanage in Plymouth, Devon.
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Pat recalls her first home after she was married.
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