Family Tree Frog

  Views of Sydney and the Hawkesbury River Bridge, New South Wale s. Jim Davidson Australian postcard collection, 1880-1980. I'm really scratching around for something to write today. So I thought I would transcribe some of my mother's memories.   I just have these fragments here and there, written on paper, not in any particular order, so here goes... My mother's twin sister lived in Newcastle.  They were very close & not tolerant of being separated for long.  Consequently, there were many trips to & fro between Sydney & Newcastle from my earliest recollections. The train, was, of course, exciting, but it became a very familiar environment. The carriages must have been all wooden in those days. Some were better than others. The box carriage was to be avoided, with no connecting corridor in which one could stretch one's legs during what appeared to be very long periods of sitting still in sometimes crowded conditions of wartime.  There seemed al...