In 1971, I was 17 and attending Oak Park High School in Plumpton Ave, Oak Park. I was in Year 12 and hoping to do well enough to get into university to become an English teacher. I liked to wear jeans but could only afford Wrangler, not Levi or Lee. I listened to music by […]
Tag: Moreland
Moreland Remembers – War weariness
The ‘Moreland Remembers’ exhibition documents the mounting strain placed on communities and individuals as World War I continued with no end in sight. As casualty numbers overseas continued to rise, families at home watched more of their loved ones leave to replace soldiers already lost and waited a painful amount of time to receive news […]
Moreland Remembers – Women and the War
The ‘Moreland Remembers’ exhibition documents the monumental efforts of Australian women during World War I. During this time, Women played the role of family and community leaders, displaying courage and strength while suffering with the emotional burdens of missing their loved ones and the grief of losing husbands and sons to the War. Women at […]
Migration story – Laiba
Laiba was born in Peshawar, a city in the North West of Pakistan. She smiles when describing her early life, as the ‘princess’ of her parents, belonging to an economically sound family who employed enough servants that she never even had to do any house chores! She invested her time studying a master’s degree in economics at […]
Migration stories – Glenroy conversation club
Since February of 2017, an English Conversation Club has been meeting at the Glenroy Library as a part of the ‘Libraries After Dark’ project. In June of 2019, the attending members shared their stories of migration to Moreland. Giovanni Giovanni was born in Calabria, a city in the South of Italy. In 1966 he travelled to Australia […]
ReCollection – Meredith Lawrence and the Fawkner heart and soul singers
Edited transcript of interview with Meredith Lawrence, who established Fawkner Community House in 2000. I’ve been managing the community house for nearly 17 years and in fact, I set the house up. It was a lot of hard work, actually, we only had 15 hours of funding at the time. We had a building from […]
ReCollection – Rock ‘n’ roll, cars and happily ever after
Edited transcript of interview with Heather Cox. When I started to go with John, I wasn’t quite seventeen. It was at the beginning of Rock’n’Roll and all those sorts of things, when the music was changing. My cousin Richard first started us going over to the Westbreen Hall. They’d started a dancing school and he’d […]
ReCollection – Hard work, hardship and happiness
Edited transcript of interview with Heather Cox. I’m the eldest daughter of Evelyn Peachy and David Ennis. They were married in 1938 and they were together for quite a few years before they could afford to get married because there was no work around. He worked in a clay pit in Brunswick and they had […]
ReCollection – Farm life, adventure and strife
Edited transcript of the interview with Heather Cox. I was brought up with lots of animals. There were draft horses, a cow, geese, ducks, chickens, dogs, cats, and it was basically a farm. I was surrounded by aunts and uncles cousins and I had the best childhood ever. I was brought up in West Street […]
Migration stories – Glenroy conversation club
In October 2016 participants of the Glenroy library conversation club sat down and shared their stories of migration and home. Some were recent arrivals to Australia, while others have been here for many years. Syamala Syamala left her home in Bilaspur city, Chhattisgarh state, India to live with her daughter, son-in-law and grandson in […]