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Pat continues her story about her childhood in the Nazareth House orphanage in Plymouth, Devon.
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Alice's looks back upon certain aspects of her life - her unhappy preschool days, the bullying at school, teachers who lacked grace and how all of this influenced her later life.
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Joyce talks about the years before going to school, the pre school years when there were no kindegartens or play groups....
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Helen had no formal pre-schooling and remembers well her first days at St Francis Xavier School in Whyalla in the Prep Calss. She didn't like school and would run away. After a couple of attempts the Nuns thwarted her plans. But she later learned that her father also had run away...
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In this story Bill talks about his brothers and sisters, their education and their closeness as a family and community.
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Judith talks about her extended family beginning with her childhood and expanding outwards....until the family rings the world.
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Joyce talks about visiting family in Adelaide while they were living in Peterborough when she wasyoung - before the fmily moved to Adelaide in 1948.
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Pat spent the first three years of her life in the norsery of the orphange where she had been put by her mother - Nazareth House, Plymouth, Devon. Pat shares this story with the Life Story Circle.....
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Helen's extended family lived in UK when she was young. She became penfriends with two cousins during her childhood and one of their father's work mates became their adopted Uncle and Aunty - Clarrie and Fay Maynard. Eventually one of her father's brothers emigrated to Australia and settled in Wollongong. Helen...
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Jill talks about her mother - Ivy Mary Tilbrook (Left) - seen here with her sister, Jean Tahmindis in 1980
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Judith talks about her siblings. She begins with the story of her walking out when her mother brought home her baby brother. The fuss over the first born son annoyed her so much that she staged her first protest!
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Bill recalls his parents. His father was a butcher by trade and Bill was born in Riverton South Australia before moving the short distance to Tarlee where he lived in the house that is now the Grasshopper Roadhouse.
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