General Chat

Bye Berona,
Enjoy your day,
Goodnight Linda, sleep well,

Tec

Sadly Tec The Great Northern has long gone, The Waverley was on the other corner at the bottom of Queen Street - then it became the South Pacific and now it is Mercurio and is part of a chain of hotels,

The Great Northern - was replaced by some very uninteresting shops.
Auckland used to be the City of Sails - then it was the City of Cranes as nearly every building was having something going on at the top. Now it is a City of Roadworks and makes for a good obstacle course - my grandson loves hurdling over the plastic barriers, leaping over holes and generally going where he should not be.

Persey phoney

Berona, you've shocked me I thouught that you were the matronly type, keeping the rest of us in order, and now you say you are a wild thing!

Tec, possibly you will see me in Bunbury. I have never been to Esperance although OH has, and it has been many years since I was last in Kalgoorlie.

I doubt that you would recognise the Esplanade now, Tec, it is expensive but I enjoy staying there when I can. It is central to everything, including the Fremantle Markets. However, I don't have breakfast there as it is $30.00 for a buffet breakfast.

I usually walk down to a little cafe near the Orient Hotel which does a magnificent, cholesterol laden, fry up for $10.00

Allan

Persephone,
I'm sorry to hear The Great Northern has gone, it was an interesting part of my mis spent youth, I once knew that area quite well. It seems they are re-building the whole world, so I prefer to remember it as I once knew it.

Tec

Bye Berona enjoy your day,

Goodnight Linda sweet dream's

Well all you Aussie's and Pommie's it's time I too was off to bed, speak to you all soon
Enjoy your day or have a good night sleep all

Diane x

Good night Diane

Allan

Goodnight Diane,
Sleep well, and take care of yourself,

Tec

Allan, Looking at a big hole in the ground in Kalgoorlie,

Tec

Sorry people - phone call as usual at this time of morning. It's such a drag being in demand:-)))

I must also get started - so good night dear Poms and have a great day Aussie friends.

Sue xx

Tec, That is the Super Pit as it is known in WA

At the moment one of the biggest open cut goldmines, but a new one will soon be operational in another place in WA (Boddington) which will be the biggest in the Southern Hemisphere. They have had to construct a new power station at Collie just to provide for the Boddington Operation

Allan

'Bye Sue

Allan

Hello Persey,
The first time I visited Auckland it had electric trolley buses. They has certainly gone by 1991. Like our trams, I imagine that they have been replaced by "fast, modern diesel buses."
I have access to the NSW Federation Index in our local library, which includes NSW births to 1918, if that helps. PM me with your Turnbull names if that would help. For New South Wales, marriage indexes to 1958 and death indexes to 1978 are available on line.
Electoral rolls are another possibility, but except for the ones compiled and indexed by ancestry.com.au (1930, 1936, 1954 and a few others) these are not compiled and you need to know approximately where they lived to find them.
~~~~~~~~~~ to all. Colin

Good morning, Colin, how are you?

Allan

Bye Sue, Enjoy your day,

Allan, The Kalgoorlie operation is fascinating, Esperance apparently won the Australian Port of The Year 20003, but not since because of lead contamination?

Now we're in Bunbury, that looks very nice indeed, currently in the Dolphin Discovery Centre, the sea looked quite rough, hope you weren't paddling

Tec

Good Morning Colin, Hope you're well today,

Tec

Tec...can't you see me: I'm the one waving and you should be able to pick out my green Wellies

Allan

Tec, speaking of lead contamination at Esperance (all due to major failings within The Department of Environment and Conservation which was supposed to be monitoring the shipments)

The shipping and storage operation have now been shifted to Fremantle. To say that the Freo residents are upset is a bit like saying that Hiroshima was just a small explosion!!

Allan

Hi Colin who has gone

I loved the trolley buses - they gradually disappeared - the last run to go was in Herne Bay where I lived as a teenager. Was really late for work one morning because the power had gone down and so as a consequence it was ages before they got some diesel buses out to us all.
I am just old enough (young enough) to remember the trams in Auckland, and I remember them well in Wellington and they are a bit of a tourist thing now in Christchurch. I enjoy playing on the trams when I am in Melbourne.

We only have the one cable car run left - travelling up the hill alongside the gardens in Wellington. Dunedin used to have an abundance of them but all gone. My father loved San Francisco - mainly because of the cable cars.

Yes Tec a lot of things are just memories - Colin talks of his doona, here we call them duvets and in my parents day they had eiderdowns and counterpaines. Nowadays the younger generation would not know what a counterpaine is. My daughter when she was little called it her eider as she thought when it was on the floor whilst the bed was being made it was an eider down and when it was on the bed it was an eider up.


Perse aka Norma

For those that are asleep - dream well for those running WA and other parts of Oz have a good day.
It is very wet here today as we get the aftermath of Australian weather here. We are a bit like Secondhand Rose, apart from the endangered species nothing much we can call our own.


Persephone

Allan,
Yes I saw you , the one in the Paddington hat, the wellies were needed it was a rough day - do you always jump up and down waving in them.

I liked Bunbury.

Then to Geraldton,

and now perth now, but he is having problems broadcasting over the sound of bells, making great play of this, references to Quasi-Modo, and the Hunchback of Notre Dame,
but Perth itself looks so clean and modern, lovely looking city

Now we're off to Carnarvon

Tec.

Bye Persephone, enjoy your day

Tec