THE BLACKSMITH’S DAUGHTER – VOL 1 – CHAPTER 3
Category: The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Vol 2
The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 3- 1960-1980 ter 3 – 1963+
The Blacksmith’s Daughter – Chapter 3
The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 © – Chapter 7
The Blacksmith’s Daughter by Fay Berry 2013 – Chapter 7 November 20, 2013 at 12:44pm In 1949, when I was 10 years of age, I changed schools and began attending Unley Primary School in Cremorne St Unley and went into the Grade 5 girls’ class. Avis and I sat together in class. I had […]
The Blacksmith’s Daughter, 2013 © by Fay Berry – Chapter 4
November 19, 2013 at 9:17am 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, and Maynard would always […]
Chapter 10 – The Blacksmith Shop by Graham O’Connor
The Blacksmith Shop — My brother Graham produced a little booklet describing My Dad and how his black smithing 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. My Dad was a Blacksmith, a manufacturing […]
Chapter 8 – Parkside Primary School again – Grade 6 – 1950
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 the school yard when I was running late. No long ride to […]
Chapter 7 – Unley Primary School – 1948 (9 years old)
In 1948, when I was 9 years of age, I changed schools and began attending Unley Primary School in Cremorne St Unley and went into the Grade 4 girls’ class. Avis and I sat together in class. I had been at the new school for less than a week when our teacher asked for six […]
Chapter 6 – Run over by a tram – 1947
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 attending Parkside Primary School. During the […]
Chapter 5 – Parkside Primary School
In 1944, when I was five years old I started school at the Parkside Primary School which was just behind our house. I was able to take a short cut to school each day by climbing over our back fence into the school yard. The horizontal struts of the fence were on our side of […]
Chapter 4 – My brothers
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, and Maynard would always work out how they could be […]