Lisa loves writing poetry and this is but one example....a story of a 6 year old
Bill was at Rostrevor College last week talking to a group of students who were about the go to New Guinea to walk the Kakoda Track. Bill decided to tell them about the rain that falls up there and recounted a story from World War Two when he was fighting the...
Ruth talks about her friends when she was younger..
Cynthia recalls the days when there were garbage collectors who accompanied the garbage trucks. These 'garbos' as they were known collected the garbage bins and loaded them on to the truck for emptying - and then they rweturned them to where (approximately) they had collected the bin from. Cynthia spent a...
After two years of unpaid hard work Pat got her first paid job as an assistant in the X-Ray Dept of a hospital.
Lisa recalls her first job at a men's outfitters in Elizabeth, South Australia in 1961 x
Shirley tells us about her first job when she was 16 at the Myer Emporium...
Joyce recalls her first job in Adelaide, South Australia..
In this story Margaret recalls her first job which was becoming a Wren as it was wartime.
Alice continues the story of her husband Stan and his Polish colleagues trying to make a life in Australia in 1949 after being relocated from Europe as Displaced Persons. The picture below shows them at the Komulka camp where they were given the task of building a railroad from the gypsum...
Bill talks about landing in New Guinea and the Kokoda Track. This came about because he had been speaking at Rostrevor College to a group of students who were about the walk the track in the footsteps of Bill and his Australian Army colleagues in the Second World War.
Joyce talks about her first job in Adelaide after having moved down from Peterborough.
Lisa recalls her first job.in Elizabeth, South AUstralia in 1961...
Jill 's great grandfather HH Tilbrook wrote notebooks of his journeys throughout South Australia. Here she reads the introduction to his journey via rail to the South East of the State.
Bill tells us about attending a rodeo at Jubilee Oval in Adelaide. Sir Sydney Kidman organised the rodeo for the people of South Australia to celebrate his birthday.
Bill recalls his first job as a butcher - something that was a tradition in his family as his father and grandfather had been butchers before him....
Judith says that over the years she has been blessed to have good neighbours. She talks about the relationships she has enjoyed with neighbours through her life.
One of Annette's friends, Margaret, very kindly gave her a doll's for her 6 years old granddaughter. Margaret was given the doll's house as a child.
