The following article was contributed following a reminiscences session held at Watsonia library June 2008, on the topic “Holidays”. It was around the year of 1938. I was about 8 years old at the time. We were living in a small rented home in Collingwood and there was very little money. My mother was a […]
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Earlier times spent at Apollo Bay
The following article was contributed following a reminiscences session held at Watsonia library June 2008, on the topic “Holidays”. In earlier days my parents purchased a block of land in Apollo Bay (quite a time before Apollo Bay became a well known tourist destination) and my father decided to have a tiny place built on […]
Around the house in 1930’s
Laundry The washing was done in a big copper pot under which a fire was lit to heat the water and boil the clothes. It was all stirred with a wooden stick. Bathroom The toilet was outside. Instead of toilet paper, newspaper was used. The more wealthy people had old phone directories to use. Kitchen […]
Watsonia Pine trees
The following article was contributed following the first reminiscences session held at Watsonia library April 2008.The pine trees at the Watsonia Railway Station were planted by the Railway Station masters husband, Mr Phillips around 1940. The Station masters house was demolished with the Greensborough Highway in the mid 1970’s. By Helen Tamme (2008) Comment received […]