A few of my favourite things
As a little girl growing up at Shalimar my grandmother gave me a cane chair…
As a little girl growing up at Shalimar my grandmother gave me a cane chair…
I was born after WWII. We lived in a reasonably modern home at Shalimar built by my father. We bathed in a tub in front of the fuel stove…
Bessie Irene Bastin was an attractive young lady who married John Thomas Forwood after he returned from fighting in WWI…
Mervyn Chapman was born in 1918. His trip from Taree Hospital to his home on Chapman Island in the Wallamba River was a perilous journey on the back of a motorcycle…
Growing up between two world wars Daphne Chapman knew what it was like to go without. Using her flair for hair styling she realised she could…
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