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  METROPOLITAN GIRLS' RESULTS IN INTERMEDIATE EXAM. (1952, January 25). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 5. Retrieved August 25, 2020, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18260940 Following up from yesterday's post about my mother's secondary education... Here is evidence of my mother passing her intermediate in 1951 - she is McLoughlin B.H..  That would have been what they called Year 3.  I keep thinking that the Intermediate would be done in Year 4 or Grade 10 like we did our School Certificate in Grade 10.  But I realise now that we had an extra year tacked on to our High School going up to Grade 12 whereas the article under Educationist in the newspaper snippet below reminded me that matriculation was at the end of Year 5 in High School or our Grade 11. In the process of trying to find evidence of my mother having attended Fort Street Girls High School for at least part of Year 4 in 1952 before going to the Model Business College or Miss Hale...

A family history buddy directed me to this blog post the other day which stung me into action on the scanning and digitising front.  Not sure how long this will last but my goal is to keep scanning memorabilia and digitise it and file it for successful retrieval.   And so today, here are my mother's school reports and reports from Business College.  Nothing really remarkable to see here but it does provide a trail of where she was and when namely: 1949 - Petersham Girls Junior High School - 1st year or what we would call Grade 7 in Qld I guess. There is much improvement from the first half of the year to the second half of the year.  Mind you, she was absent for 16 days in the first half of the year. She was away for 14 days in the second half but maybe just had to get used to High School.  She did English, French, Maths I and Maths II, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, Needlework and Art in the first half of the year with the addition of Music in th...

  Alan from Sepia Saturday says:   I have been waiting for so long for the bus, I have forgotten where I am supposed top be going to. Being Sepia Saturday, however, I can go wherever I want to. If I choose to, I can be guided by the prompt and therefore look out old photographs of buses or transport or men carrying suitcases. There again, I can just jump on the first bus that comes past and see where it takes men to. That, as always, is the beauty of Sepia Saturday. Just post your posts on or around Saturday 22 August 2020 and add a link to the list below. A quick post from me today.  Here are my contributions: two photos from my paternal grandmother's album and one from my maternal grandfather's album.  Interestingly this photo was reversed in my grandmother's album so I had to flip it in my editing program.  This is Picadilly Circus isn't it?  I'm thinking it was taken in the 60s or 70s. Here's another one featuring a bus.  This time of Moscow....

Sepia Saturday   this week encourages us to consider the dogs in our life or past lives and maybe the training thereof.  I could bore you witless with tales of the Adorable Arwen. Adorable Arwen She is, without a doubt, the Apple of my Eye and walking companion par excellence.  She has us wrapped around her dew claw and we have to be careful not to give her too many treats or she will end up as tubby as me. Let's have a look at some other puppies in the family tree. My mother and father both grew up with dogs.  I desperately wanted a dog when I was very little.  A black spaniel, Dino, was duly purchased and given to me when I was about six I think.  But Dino did not like me one little bit so he had to go.  Then the dachshund across the road bit me on the knee when I went to visit Elizabeth-Anne, so I was a bit shy of dogs after that.  My friends had dogs who were all very lovely - Jill's beagle Jip and Judith's endless success...

Bayfront Painting Class 1945 : Florida Memory (Flickr Commons) This is the photo prompt for Sepia Saturday this week. It reminds me a bit of this photo...which was taken by the water at a regatta - showing happiness with friends....you get the picture.  My mother is the one in the middle with the Alice band on her head drinking some lemonade, I'm guessing.  I've blogged about this photo before ....so won't say anymore about it today.   No-one is painting in the picture sadly, although my mother was and my father is a competent artist. Here is a photo of my father when he was a young whipper snapper in the Public Works Department I think. It's the only photo I could find of either of them even thinking about drawing...   So I have little to show for this week's prompt I'm afraid...but here are some scans of my mother's drawings to give you an idea of her work. Alex by Barbara Conner My mother did quite a few drawin...

Marilyn on Sepia Saturday says: This week's prompt comes from the archives of The Library of Congress courtesy of Flickr Commons, where the subjects are taking part in what is described as a 'Greek Cymball Dance’ at a Sufragette Ball. Now, you may wish to hang on to that description as a possible avenue to explore if inspiration deserts you. Otherwise we have May Day, dancing, folk traditions or very silly poses; take your pick or forget about themes altogether. The main thing is to join in with an old image of your own choice and an interesting post to share with fellow Sepians.  Hmmm.  very silly poses. I trawled through my family photos and the closest I could come up with were these two photos. My mother being silly with friends But then I thought harder and remembered that I had a bit of fun this week at the local  Vinnies shop buying Retro cookbooks. My pride and joy was this for $1. Published by Paul Hamlyn in 1971 it...

Take a look at this 1905 photograph (from the collection of the Library of Congress) of the pier and harbour of the English port of Littlehampton. What you see is a tall ship and a remarkably small lighthouse. Or you might want to focus on the high windmill and the squat little tugboat. So if you want a theme for Sepia Saturday 188 (post your posts on or around Saturday 3 August 2013) you could look for photographs that bring together large and small, or big and little. Or, there again, you could focus on the sea, ships, lighthouse, piers or men leaning against bicycles. As ever with Sepia Saturday, the choice is up to you : all we ask for is an old photo and some new thoughts. Ouf - what a banquet of choice this week in Sepia Saturday. I can't focus on anything. I live in Brisbane so you have to have the obligatory shot of our windmill. Windmill and flagstaff in Wickham Terrace ca. 1893 I do believe that is a man and his bicycle in the foreground - albeit ...