There was a time when jobs were easy to get. Pat recalls those days in the late 1950's and early 1960's.
Lisa loves writing poetry and this is but one example....a story of a 6 year old
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...
Pat talks about her first paid job....
Lisa recalls her first job.in Elizabeth, South AUstralia in 1961...
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....
Lisa recalls friends from the 1980's in the Riverland of South Australia....
Alice continues to relate the story of her late husband Stan Kowalski and his journey from Poland to South Australia. He and his Polish friends journey from Minnipa to Kowulka by rail, where they set up camp to work on the railway. Kowulka was in western South Australia past Ceduna, in...
Pat recalls her courting days....
Still on the journey to Kowalka in May 1949, Stan and his Polish friends caught a coastal steamer called the MV Minnipa which took them across the Gulf to Port Lincoln to catch a train to take them to a place called Minnipa! This is the story of their journey across...
Ruth talks about the teachers she remembers from her school days in Adelaide during the 1950's and early 60's.
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.
Graham continues his recollection of his schooldays and afterwards. In this story he tals about leaving school and joining the work force.
Graham went to Adelaide Technical High School and he recalls just how hard he worked and how good the school was..
Graham recalls travelling to and from school in Adelaide, South Australia.
Lisa recalls her primary school years, especially travelling to and from Virginia Primary School....
Helen talks about her life long love of horses as her story of the topic of Sport and Hobbies.