A Saucepan in the Sky
Photos from the book.
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Book Cover
Wedding Photo
Mum & Dad
The Family
Olivia Terrace
Brian
Dad 1942, Mum 1943
Dad on leave in 1942
rian and Colin
Uncle Stan and Nan
Brian and Colin
Colin and Brian
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Mum and Dad were married in February, 1935. Mum was 15 and Dad was 19. On the left is Dad's younger brother Ron, and his older sister Nellie. On the right is Mum's older brother Wilton.
Luna Park, Sydney, 1935. Mum and Dad on their honeymoon.
Most of our family outside Olivia Terrace in 1939. Top row from left: Nan (Mum's mother), her de facto 'Uncle' Stan, a friend, Mum, Dad, Granny (Mum's grandmother), Mum's Uncle Dick (Nan's brother). Bottom row from left: Uncle Vic, three friends.
Our three-bedroom terrace house in Petersham, an inner-city suburb of Sydney. Somehow we all fitted in.
Studio portrait taken in 1940.
Mum was a girl from the bush and Dad a boy from the city. They were married during the Depression and then Dad went to war.
hotograph taken by a professional street photographer at Central Railway Station, Sydney. Dad, me, Mum and my brother Colin.
Myself aged 4 years and Colin 18 months in October, 1942. The badge on my lapel shows the colours of the 2nd/2nd Pioneer Battalion in which our father served.
Taken in 1944 when they were both 50 years old. Uncle Stan was Nan's de facto and despite the fact that he had 'more bad habits than you could poke a stick at' she lived with him for twenty-seven years.
The day we shot the grocer, proudly kitted out with our new goggles, pith helmets and six-shooters.
One day Mum dressed us in our best clothes and sent us off to Petersham Railway Station to meet Dad. The war was over.