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Bill talks about the importance of railways in South Australia before the Second World War. He recalls all the different types of trains that passed through Tarlee and Hamley Bridge in the days before road transport took over.
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Annette tells the story of her parents in law and how they survived the Second World War in Germany...(5 second delay at beginning)
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Still on the subject of work Ruth recalls some co-workers and colleagues when she worked in the typing pool of a government department.
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Seventy years on Shirley remembers finishing her job at Myer and having to do war work in a munitions factory..
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Bill was at Rostrevor College last week talking to a group of students who were about the go to New Guinea to walk the Kakoda Track. Bill decided to tell them about the rain that falls up there and recounted a story from World War Two when he was fighting the...
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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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