Amongst Mum’s repertoire of schoolgirl memories was the oft-repeated story of Alice and her lollies. Mum sat next to Alice in the one and only classroom, consisting of Grades 1 to 8, at St. Joseph’s Convent School, Cora Lynn, West Gippsland. The story went something like this: “Alice’s parents had a shop in Nar Nar READ MORE
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A 13 year old biographer
When I was 13 years old, our English teacher, the delightful Miss Seedsman, gave us an exercise in biography. The task was to interview someone about their childhood and write it up in three sections: family life, school life and a description of a game played at school. I interviewed my dad. Dad, John “Jack” READ MORE
Back to the Main Drain – Cora Lynn, Vervale and Iona
My cousin, Howard, and his mum, Muriel WINTER* (nee FALLON) kindly offered to take me on a tour of the old sites of my grandparents: For Mum’s side, the WINTER family—Cora Lynn, Vervale and Iona farms, and, for Dad’s side, the COGHLAN family—Cora Lynn General Store, all situated around the Main Drain on the Koo READ MORE
98 today…..well, she would have been
Mum would have been 98 today. To honour her memory I’ve dedicated my first post, in my first blog, to her, Teresa Bernadette WINTER (1917-2010). The WINTER Family Mum, known as Berna, was born on the 28th October 1917 at 93 Station St., Fairfield, at the back of her father’s butcher’s shop… or so the READ MORE