Australian place names can often confuse those not familiar with them, but there is a certain romance about many of them...
Thanks to the wonderful resources of TROVE (http://trove.nla.gov.au), I was able to find these pages from one of Australia's most popular magazines,
THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY...
This issue was from May 13, 1964... these make interesting reading... as do the advertisements...
Pages
- HOME
- CEMETERY - COMMENTS & QUANDARIES
- CONVICTS
- CONVERSE IN VERSE
- JUST BECAUSE...
- BURIAL CUSTOMS AROUND THE WORLD
- TROVE UPDATES.. Newspapers, Magazines
- TROVE TATTLES
- TROVE TUESDAY NEWS -
- TROVE TUESDAY
- SWADLING SNIPPETS
- COME INTO MY WORLD
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Your post caused me to go off on a tangent but it was fun, thanks for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed it Jill, don't we have some great names...
ReplyDeleteLoved reading that, thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Kylie... nice to see some of these 'off the track' things now and then...
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