The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Chapter 33 It seems to me that I have been looking forward to the Southport Youth Conference forever. The Black Point weekend had been the highlight of my year to date, but today was the day I took my first plane flight ever, that is if I didn’t count the joy […]
Category: The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Vol 1
The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 31 – 19570423
The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Chapter 31 After my wonderful weekend at Black Point and all the interaction with the “Black Point mob” as I called them from then on and the Weir boys, life went back to normal for a couple of months. The next exciting “event” in my life was to be the Southport […]
The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 – Chapter 23
The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Chapter 23 My parents were members of the Adelaide Christadelphian Ecclesia and so for all my early years I was a member of the Adelaide Sunday School. Sunday School up until I was 13 years of age had been a very positive and enriching experience for me. I loved my lessons […]
The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 – Chapter 24 – 1956 – 19560107
The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Chapter 24 – 1956 The 1955 school year was over and the next milestone for me was to find a job, well I put it off for as long as possible. I told Mum and Dad that since I would be working for years and years to come, it would be […]
The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 – Chapter 17 – 19550603
The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Chapter 17 The Opera Unley High School put on in 1955 was one written by our Music Master, Duncan McKie, and it was called, “The Black Tulip. “ Old scholars took the lead parts if there was not a suitable student for the role. Opera practices were the highlight of my […]
The Blacksmith’s Daughter, 2013 by Fay Berry – Chapter 6
The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Chapter 6 I was eight years old in 1947 and in Grade three at Parkside Primary School. My brother Maynard would have been in his 2nd year at Adelaide Technical High School and Charles would have been in his first year at Unley High School. Graham was my only sibling still […]
The Blacksmith’s Daughter, 2013 by Fay Berry – Chapter 4
The Blacksmith’s Daughter, 2013 by Fay Berry – Chapter 4 My brothers were, all three of them, very intelligent inventive people. Mum told me stories of when our family lived on Halifax Street before I was born; how that Charlie from a very early age, was always thinking up schemes, things he wanted to achieve, […]
Chapter 3 – The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – 1962
Chapter 3 – The Blacksmith’s Daughter Chapter 3 – 1962 In 1962, around about July when our daughter Debbie was one year old, Jeff’s Auntie Eileen, his biological mother’s sister, rang me at home. She asked me to visit her because she had a box of old family photographs taken of Jeff and his family, […]
Fay Berry’s Story – Chapter 12 – My dear Dad, Maynard O’Connor Snr’s story – , Part 2
August 26, 2011 at 11:45am Maynard’s Dad could turn his hand to any work. He established an ice making plant with the Pinnaroo Hotel, the candle and soap factory and at one stage he carted all the limestone for the rebuilding of the commercial hotel which is now called ‘the Golden Grain’ Hotel. He could […]
Fay Berry’s Story – Chapter 14 – Aunty Connie Candy – my mother’s dear sister
November 1, 2011 at 4:01pm My Dearest Aunty, yesterday I sat at your bedside with my Aunty Ronda Critchley your sister and her daughter Kathy Billings and I looked at your sweet round face as you lay peacefully sleeping there at your home in Forest Ave Blackforest Adelaide. You opened your eyes, dear Aunty, and […]