December 2016
Primary School Teachers 1950s
MARGARETLike everyone else I started school in “Bubs”, aged five. The baby boom was in full swing and there must have been…
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Stories
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November 2016
The Demon Drink
Alcoholic drinks hardly ever entered our world. We were aware that the communion “wine” used by our own Presbyterian church was actually…
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…
September 2016
Family camping
Our grandparents and parents had camped as young adults, so living in third world conditions in order to be able to enjoy…
August 2016
War Service
Lest we Forget. When we were children our pacifist mother disapproved of the “glorification of war”, characterised, in her eyes, by remembrance…
August 2016
Heather Farm, Kilmore Junction ,1879
Stories we heard as children paint a picture of the lives of our great, great grandparents, Joachim and Martha Dau and the…
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,…
June 2016
“Cut out of the Will”
Growing up we had heard many times how our father had been ‘cut out of the will’ by his father because he…
June 2016
The Poor Little Thing
Marge and Alice, with great drama, tell the story of our great, great grandmother whose name they do not know, and her…
May 2016
Grace McCormack, our other grandmother.
Until last week we knew very little about our paternal Grandmother, Grace. We both had the feeling from our father that she…