After the wedding at 483 Magill Road, Tranmere, Judith and Steve planned their 'round Australia' honeymoon on their weekend at Carrickalinga . They set off in their short-wheel base Toyota along the Great Ocean Road to Melbourne, then Canberra and up the east coast of Australia, visiting friends on the way....
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Judith, who was living in Darwin at the time, decided to get married at St George's Church Magill South Australia because church had a lychgate and she describes herself as a 'romantic'. She wore a wedding gown made from white and gold material she had bought on a cruise a few...
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Judith moved to Darwin from Adelaide to live with her parents and younger siblings in 1970. She soon was gathered in by workmates and friends and started socialising with the young people of Darwin. Food was all trucked in to Darwin at that time, and there were not many places to...
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Judith was asked by her parents to return to Brisbane from Canberra just before her 21st birthday. She celebrated her 21st birthday with family and friends. Her mother arranged the catering and made the birthday cake. On her return to Brisbane, Judith worked in the Department of Air and flatted in...
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Judith shares with us a very poignant story of her first love - a young boy named Geoff who she shared her life with from a very early age until she was 7 years old. His family moved away, but he came back into her life as a close friend when...
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Judith shares stories of the fashions she wore on the 1960's from her firsrt pink silk shirt to her short skirts and the music of the times that she collected and liked.
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Judith talks about her life in Brisbane, Canberra and Nambour as a young women. She shares memories of her favourite music, dances and other interests as well as the friends that she partied with.
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Judith tells us about working in Brisbane with her first professional job in the Department of Air. She flatted with her brother and his friends and they had many an adventure travelling to and from Nambour along the Bruce Highway in her brother's Triumph Herald. She also shares a story about...
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Judith joined the Department of Air in Queensland in 1966 and soon after joined the Federated Clerks' Union. She shared a flat at Wiindsor initially with her brother and two of his friends, and after they left she then shared with 2 hairdressing apprentices, one of who remains a close friend...
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Judith relates two very different experiences in her first two jobs as a Nanny and Governess in her gap year in 1964.
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Judith had her heart set on being a Lawyer only to discover in her last year of schooling that she had studied the wrong subjects. She did a range of jobs in the gap between school and university including live-in nannying roles and waitressing. She then trained as a Kindergarten Teacher in...
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From an early age Judith remembers listening to and enjoying music. Her parents had a record player and they played a wide range of classical music. At Nambour High School she went to classical music concerts. And to this day she finds classical music uplifting.
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Judith recounts her school life as her father changed jobs and they moved from Loftus to Griffith, then the family moved to Queensland. They lived in Nambour and she enjoyed her time at the Nambour High School.
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Judith discusses her shool years at Sutherland, Loftus and Griffith Primary Schools (all in New South Wales Australia) and Nambour High School in Queensland Australia. Judith tells us that she enjoyed all of her subjects, particularly English, Geography, Australian History and in her later years Mathematics and Latin.
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Judith talks about her fun days living at Loftus NSW and exploring the bush. Judith moved to live in Queensland when she was a little older and she tells us about sailing and helping to build a yacht.
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Judith describes her after school activities at Loftus NSW which included buying bags of biscuits, climbing a cliff and walking along the rockface. When she went home the long way past the plaster factory, she would collect plaster pieces to use a chalk to draw hopscotch. Judith and her siblings also...
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Judith recounts how she worked with her mother to fundraise to build a school at Loftus where she lived. Then at 8 years of age Judith attended Griffith Primary School, where her lifelong love of reading began.
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Judith talks about her favourite home and memories
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Juidith talks about her childhood homes at Palmwoods and Mapleton, Queensland
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