Category: The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Vol 2

Chapter 3 – 12 Kenilworth Road, Parkside

Fay and Grandpa Williams 1943

My first memory of ‘living’ anywhere was at 12 Kenilworth road, Parkside, Adelaide, South Australia, the little house where my parents lived from around 1943 to 1950. I don’t remember either Halifax street, Adelaide, or Maud Street, Unley, only Kenilworth road, Parkside. Our house was the second in a row of attached cottages that ran […]

Chapter 2 – My dad, The Blacksmith

Before I was old enough to go to Sunday School and Mum and Dad only had the three boys, Dad built a side car onto his bike. He used to put the boys in the sidecar and then ride his bike and sidecar from our house at 12 Kenilworth Road, Parkside, to Halifax street in […]

Chapter 1 – Fay O’Connor born 1939

1939 Fay O'Connor

I was born on the 28th November 1939 at the Queen’s Home, Rose Park South Australia. My Mother and Father both came from Pinnaroo, a little country town in the Murray Mallee in South Australia. Their names were Jean and Maynard O’Connor and Dad was born in 1909 and Mum in 1914. Mum and Dad […]