November 2015
Sue, Margaret, Rikki and Fred
Susan:The 1960s was rather a bleak period in my life. The break up of our parents’ marriage, and the aftermath, had a…
Marge
The archive’s established first-name form.
November 2015
First Year Teaching 1909
These children, photographed in 1910, are writing on slates with chalk, as did the children in our grandfather Alf's classroom in 1909.…
October 2015
First Year Teaching
Teaching was an obvious, perhaps the only, choice for us to study after Matriculation (Year12). The Commonwealth Government provided scholarships to cover…
October 2015
Twelfth Birthday Letters to Alice
Letter writing is all but dead. When we were cleaning out our mother’s flat, after she had died, there was a collection…
September 2015
Lunchtimes at Primary School 1950s
Both Sue and Margaret remember school games as going in crazes or fads. It was suddenly, as if by magic, swap card…
September 2015
Wednesdays at Number Ten
In this post we are stepping back from our collection of FAMILY STORIES to write specifically about this site: its origins, our…