June 2026
Excursion to Templestowe
Sue and I both remember our grandparents’ Templestowe house. Sue even remembers walking from the house with our grandfather: down to the…
Moore Street, Box Hill South
Approved recurring family-home Place, linked to Box Hill South.
February 2020
Tuesdays at Number 10 – Appraisal and Reflection
Since we began to tell our family stories in September 2015, the day has changed from Wednesday to Tuesday, the world has…
November 2019
The Built Environment – Box Hill
We grew up in Box Hill South in close proximity to Surrey Hills where our family has had an association for five…
July 2018
Fred’s films
My first boyfriend, later husband, Fred, has been out of our lives for a long time. Sue and I have written about…
April 2018
Decade by Decade
Five hours of Alice and Marge’s family stories finishes with an overview. Strikingly, Alice did most of this by herself, without notes.…
September 2017
Meat and Three Vegs
Like many families, we were fairly poor as we were growing up. There were four children, only our father worked and "stuff"…
October 2016
“Are you up to it?”
All the kids in the neighbourhood walked to school. It’s what kids have done for ever. We went to Bennettswood State School…
July 2016
Twenty-Eight Moore Street
Alice describes the acquisition of the land in Box Hill South in 1946: Dad built the house over the following six years,…
December 2015
How to Rescue the World
In our family it feels natural and right to hold, to debate and to act on political opinions: a thread that runs…
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…