The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Chapter 19 March 17, 2014 at 9:27am Towards the end of my second term at UHS, Dad’s business was going through one of its lean periods and so Dad went to Sydney to try to drum up some orders and when he arrived back home he was very happy because he […]
Category: The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Vol 1
The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 18 – 19550622
The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Chapter 18 March 15, 2014 at 10:08pm By the middle of the 1955 year and into the second term, the pace was picking up at school and we were all beginning to worry about and prepare for the second term exams. I was finding it so hard to get any effective […]
The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 15
The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Chapter 15 December 12, 2013 at 9:20pm Unley High School had established a brother/sister relationship with Melbourne’s University High School and each year the two High Schools would exchange sports teams to compete against each other in either Melbourne or in Adelaide. In my second year at High School, in […]
The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 14
The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Chapter 14 December 11, 2013 at 12:42pm In June 1952, half way through my first year at Unley High School, and during my school holidays, my father and mother took me to Pinnaroo to stay with old friends of their’s from their “Pinnaroo Days,” the Wurfel’s. The Wurfel’s had been […]
The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 – Chapter 13 – 1950
The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Chapter 13 – 1950 December 1, 2013 at 6:31pm Dad had a little blacksmith shop on Glen Osmond Road, Frewville and his forge and the ringing of his hammer on the anvil was a well known and well-loved sound along Glen Osmond road. Then in 1950, Dad moved us to […]
The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 – Chapter 12
The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Chapter 12 November 26, 2013 at 8:56pm Here is another story written by my brother Graham about his life in the 1950s. I loved horses, by Graham O’Connor. From a poor family, I could never hope to own one. My home in the suburbs, had no room for one anyway, […]
The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 – Chapter 11
The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Chapter 11 November 26, 2013 at 3:20pm Memories of Maynard O’Connor & Sons Pty Ltd – Written by my brother, 24 June 1996. Continued. My brother continues his story about his experience with our Dad and brother, Maynard and the blacksmith shop as it grew and moved its location over the […]
The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 10
November 24, 2013 at 9:45pm The Blacksmith Shop — My brother Graham produced a little booklet describing My Dad and how his blacksmiths business commenced and grew. I am including an excerpt from this booklet to tell my Dad’s story in my brother’s words. Written by Fay’s brother Graham, 24 June 1996. – […]
The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 – Chapter 9
The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Volume 1 – Chapter 9 November 21, 2013 at 3:07pm Two years before Mum and Dad married they were baptized into the Christadelphian faith and began meeting with the Adelaide Ecclesia in its hall located on Halifax street in Adelaide. The Halifax street hall, built in 1922, is a […]
The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 – Chapter 8
The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Chapter 8 November 20, 2013 at 2:30pm When I returned to Parkside Primary School in 1950, I was 11 years old and in Grade 6. It was so nice to be able to walk to school again and to be able to just climb our back fence to get into […]