Showing posts with label Grace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grace. Show all posts

Unfolding Stories


Often unknown interests, passions and achievements came to light as the participants' stories unfolded...

New Homes: New Living Arrangements



Peg recounts  moving in with her sister because of a fear of squatters moving into the house when her brother-in law left for the war: http://www.archive.org/details/WomensLivingArrangementsWwiiwilloughbysquatters
While Grace and Rita talk about learning to live together with other women when enlisted at Duntroon, Marge remembers raising two children on her own: "you had to be mother and father," and cooking cakes in a makeshift  kerosene oven in the laundry - in the then new suburb of Revesby: