WHILST putting together this site, a number of contributions were gratefully received. Included among them was a submission from Aunty Nancy. Simply called, Nancy’s Memories, it may be found on the link below…We hope to add some more photographs and text very soon!

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Some excerpts from Nancy’s Memories…

“We were wondering how to send some celery to Dad and must have written to him about this, because we got word from him to say if we could pack it and get it to Essendon Airport, there was a R.A.A.F. plane leaving there for Darwin daily, with essential stuff on board. What was more essential than celery for the troops??”

“…There were occasions when I had the job of polishing the “kitchen” table and used Geoffrey as the shining medium. We put his little botty on the cloth and sent him from one end of the table to the other, to be pushed back by Allen or Brian…”

“I remember Dad used to take us to the beach in the mornings and Mum would do the necessary house stuff and then come down with lunch. There was an oatmeal and water bag for sunburn, after a day in the sun, and also cold tea would sometimes be swabbed on us… I loved the water and Dad used to piggyback me to the breakwater, which was the beached, dis-used warship, Cerberus.”

“At times Nin and Grampa would visit Ballarat and sometimes I would go also. It was, to me, a wonderful journey, by train. There would be a stop at Bacchus Marsh, where tea was served in the Railway Refreshment Rooms on the platform. There would be great slabs of fruit cake to have with the tea.”

“…at Christmas time, little Nin would take the hot pudding out to the sink bench to cut up and put a 3d. piece in each person’s portion, to make it fair for all of us, she said to me, on the quiet. But Grampa would get a ½d. piece, which was quite large by comparison to the 3d. Whilst he was eating he would make a great to-do about what he had found in his pudding and when he took out the ½d. we would exclaim that we had 3d. pieces. What lovely times we had!”

Ross, Murray, Neville, Julie & Dianne with Sandy

Alan Sporton, Martin & Geoff Walsh, Nov 1994

Murray & Dianne, 1955

Aunty Nancy & Uncle Alan Sporton, Feb 2006

Bridesmaids Julie & Dianne at Ross & Robyn’s Wedding, 1971

Neville & Toni, Feb 2002 at his 50th birthday

A beautiful Aunty Nancy afternoon tea!

With Jean & Janatha at Milton Park, 2008