Family Tree Frog

What is precious, tattered, torn and handed down? To so many of us Sepians, the answer is photographs - family photographs passed on from generation to generation are the currency of Sepia Saturday. But occasionally other things are handed down - and in so many cases it is the family bible that becomes the linchpin of family history. So for Sepia Saturday 187 (post your posts on or around Saturday 27 July 2013) we focus our attention on family bibles. But in the best traditions of Sepia Saturday themes, you can interpret the theme in any way you want : books, lettering, printing, hand-me-downs  ...  they all fall within our theme this week. Mybush , 30 Valley Road, Springwood 1954 Welcome to this week's Sepia Saturday post.  I'm taking books as the theme rather than bibles.  We have beautiful family bibles but they are not very old.  I have already blogged about them here. I have so much that is precious, tattered, torn and handed down. I hav...

Hazel and Ethel Conner nee Carrett near GPO Sydney c1943 Here is my beloved aunt and her mother, my Gran. My Aunty Hazel enlisted in the Australian Army 15 February 1943 at Paddington.  Her next of Kin was my grandmother.  Hazel would have been about 18 or 19 when this photo was taken.  She was discharged 21 September 1944. She worked at the 113 Australian General Hospital and was a Corporal on discharge. I've just ordered her war service record from the National Archives. I found a great series of photos of the Hospital here on the Australian War Memorial website. The 113 Australian General Hospital may be better known to Sydney residents as Concord Hospital. It looked like this: Image Copyright: Copyright expired Public Domain Note AWM Image Number bottom right of frame. According to this Wikipaedia article it was one of the tallest buildings in Sydney at the time.  And it won the Sulman award for architecture in 1946....