Nostalgia
- Thread starter The SHADOW
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The older you get the more you realise the truth of this,
Back in the days when women coppers were neither common or frontline (although i did know one).
BunganHead Tiger
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Remember this well. Late 1960's and early 1970's. We would all line up in a queue as per the photo. I had a grey Commonwealth Bank deposit book. It sat inside a plastic cover with a metal push down clasp on the front. I would place my 20c on the teacher's desk and she would stamp my pass book. At the end of the year we would all receive a plastic Jumbo elephant money box and a sticker that said, 'Get with the strength... Bank Commonwealth'.
I ran this by my wife and she said she did exactly the same thing at her school. Now 55 years later we both still bank with the Commonwealth. Guess we are both either staunchly loyal or very slow learners!
My 2 favourite were
Paleface Adios & Hondo Grattin
Can’t remember when the last time I’ve placed a bet on the red hots.
2 of the very best i have ever seen race and i would add Lucky Creed to the list,when he won the Miracle Mile it was and still is the greatest effort i have ever seen on a racecourse(broke at the start and gave the others a massive lead and swamped the best horses in Aus/NZ at the finish).
More than 1.5 million Australians are thought to descend from people who passed through one former army camp in Victoria.
The Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre opened in 1947 near Wodonga, on a wartime army base.
Until it closed in 1971, it received more than 300,000 migrants from post-war Europe. Dutch families were among them.
After the war the Dutch government encouraged emigration, and Australia needed workers. Families packed their lives into a few suitcases and left, like the Dutch emigrants in this 1960 photo, setting off for Australia.
Life in the camp was basic. Migrants lived in wooden huts, grouped into blocks by nationality, and men and women were housed separately, even married couples.
Conditions were upgraded partly because they were considered unfit for the Dutch and British migrants who were arriving.
There was a cinema twice a week and dances in the hall of Block 19.
Today Block 19 is all that remains. It is protected as a symbol of the post-war migration that transformed Australia.
The Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre opened in 1947 near Wodonga, on a wartime army base.
Until it closed in 1971, it received more than 300,000 migrants from post-war Europe. Dutch families were among them.
After the war the Dutch government encouraged emigration, and Australia needed workers. Families packed their lives into a few suitcases and left, like the Dutch emigrants in this 1960 photo, setting off for Australia.
Life in the camp was basic. Migrants lived in wooden huts, grouped into blocks by nationality, and men and women were housed separately, even married couples.
Conditions were upgraded partly because they were considered unfit for the Dutch and British migrants who were arriving.
There was a cinema twice a week and dances in the hall of Block 19.
Today Block 19 is all that remains. It is protected as a symbol of the post-war migration that transformed Australia.
Just a few (former) champions/captains of World Cricket:
Martin Crowe, New Zealand
Allan Border, Australia
Graham Gooch, England
Imran Khan, Pakistan
Dave Houghton, Zimbabwe
Kepler Wessels, South Africa
Mohammad Azharuddin, India
Richie Richardson, West Indies
Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lanka
Martin Crowe, New Zealand
Allan Border, Australia
Graham Gooch, England
Imran Khan, Pakistan
Dave Houghton, Zimbabwe
Kepler Wessels, South Africa
Mohammad Azharuddin, India
Richie Richardson, West Indies
Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lanka
Halbrowne61
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Omg those uniforms !!!!
