Riding on the running boards of Dad's very old car Ford Model A 1927 which he owned when when we lived in our second house between 1959-66.

Bread being delivered! And eating the soft bits when we got the half loaf wih the extra bread (I wonder what the folks did who got the other, smaller half of the loaf!)

Folks up the road getting TV. This was a few years after TV started in Oz (1956) & everyone visited to watch it.

Bofires on the paddock next to us (we were surrounded by Green Belt land, set aside for a highway built about 20 years after my parents bought the house). Our bonfire was bigger & our cracker night was always better cos Dad managed a garage & brought home tyres & other good stuff. The Gough St gang tried to steal our tyres, but us William St kids defended them. I assume we didn't steal anything from their bonfire cos ours was better, but ya never know, with memory being what it is.

Our home & the few nearby were not sewered cos of the expected highway, so I also remember the Dunny men coming weekly to remove the full can from the dunny down the back. Naturally the dunny did not have a light & was surrounded by trees & bushes & spiders, not the place to visit late at night. I can also vaguely remember Dad burying contents of said can if it filled too quickly.

We even had a creek down the road & kids came from everywhere the day someone saw a dead sheep floating in the creek. After that it was always Dead Sheep Creek. The creek was later tamed into pipes & is buried somewhere under the highway.

I can't go back to childhood houses as they are all gone - the house Dad's father built in 1916 was burnt & ready for demolition the day we saw it about 10 years ago. Our next house went when the highway was constructed in the mid 70's & our last house also went under a later section of that highway in the late 70's/early 80s.

sandra