The Bruce Family Next door
I remember the time when the road was constructed from the township around the foreshore to Karbeethong, cutting through both Mrs Bruce’s and our properties....
The Bruce Family
At the front of the house below the verandah was a huge yucca which I think must have been the only one in Mallacoota. From...
Friends and Neighbours
Friends and Neighbours will always be a very important part of our lives and no more so than for country people in the 1930’S. During...
Herbert’s Store
I always have fond memories of Herbert’s Store which was situated on the site where Yvonne and Gordon Symons’ home now stands. ed: opposite the...
The 1930s
Whether they were the ‘Good Old Days’ or not, they were certainly hard years for the working man in Australia during the late 1920’s -1930’s,...
Christmas
The other day someone asked me if we had a Christmas Tree. We certainly did! Our property was from Mirrabooka Road down to Shady Gully...
Outings
Dad often told us how, when he was young, Bridles has the Genoa Post Office which was situated at the top of the hill above...
Alternative Lifestyles
There are many people throughout the counÂtry who have gone back to the simpler way of living. It was done from necessity in the 1930s....
Beauty Aids
I think the first commercial product I rememÂber my Mother and Aunts using was Pond’s Vanishing Cream which I thought as a child was a...
Bill and Susie Maddison
The home owned by Joey and Joanne Peel was built in the early 1930s by Charlie Kiernan and his son, Ray for Bill and Suzy...