Cynthia recalls the days when there were garbage collectors who accompanied the garbage trucks. These 'garbos' as they were known collected the garbage bins and loaded them on to the truck for emptying - and then they rweturned them to where (approximately) they had collected the bin from. Cynthia spent a...
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After two years of unpaid hard work Pat got her first paid job as an assistant in the X-Ray Dept of a hospital.
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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...
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Bill talks about landing in New Guinea and the Kokoda Track. This came about because he had been speaking at Rostrevor College to a group of students who were about the walk the track in the footsteps of Bill and his Australian Army colleagues in the Second World War.
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Joyce talks about her first job in Adelaide after having moved down from Peterborough.
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Pat talks about her first paid job....
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Lisa recalls her first job.in Elizabeth, South AUstralia in 1961...
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Jill 's great grandfather HH Tilbrook wrote notebooks of his journeys throughout South Australia. Here she reads the introduction to his journey via rail to the South East of the State.
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Bill tells us about attending a rodeo at Jubilee Oval in Adelaide. Sir Sydney Kidman organised the rodeo for the people of South Australia to celebrate his birthday.
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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....
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Judith says that over the years she has been blessed to have good neighbours. She talks about the relationships she has enjoyed with neighbours through her life.
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One of Annette's friends, Margaret, very kindly gave her a doll's for her 6 years old granddaughter. Margaret was given the doll's house as a child.
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Joyce and her husband bought land in a new subdivision at Newton South Australia in 1959 and in 1964 moved into their new home, where they still live today. Joyce describes her neighbours over the years and the sound neighbourly relationships that they share.
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Lisa recalls friends from the 1980's in the Riverland of South Australia....
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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...
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