Meet Stewart Lee and see the postcard of the ship he came to Australia on in 1955.
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who arrived in Australia in 1955
who arrived in Australia in 1955
Meet George Kotsiros and see his Greek-English dictionary. Continue reading
Meet Edda Marcuzzi and see the remaining item from her 24-piece cutlery set.
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Meet Anna Iwanuscha and see her musical spinning wheel from Yugoslavia. Continue reading
!["This was given to me by my grandfather. He made up a poem - hip hip hooray, today's the day Jacqueline van der Waarden turned 7 years - and you take it to friends and they write a poem in it about you. I have [poems from] girls on the ship and people in the camp."](../cms/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/poesie-150x150.jpg)
Meet Jacqueline Giuntini and see the Dutch Poesie book given by her grandfather when she was 7 years old. It contains poems from girls she met on the ship to Australia in 1955.
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Meet Constantinos Frangonasopoulos and see the machine he used to make 45,000 bricks for his house in Broken Hill in 1959. Continue reading
Meet Eufemia Benussi and see the potato masher she brought over from Italy in 1955. Continue reading
!["Regular reports would go to Fairbridge in London and the parents. Some of the [comments] were terrible. Fairbridge used to amend them to suit. We know. We have [the] correspondence."](../cms/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/report-150x150.jpg)
Meet Ian Bayliff and see his Fairbridge Farm School cheque from 1974.
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!["The house [at Corbie Hill] didn’t have electricity, a bathroom or hot running water. I used this big pasta saucepan from Italy to boil water to bath the kids. It turned out to be the best thing I could have bought. I lost the handles because I used it so much, so I found some wire and made some handles myself. "](../cms/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/saucepan-150x150.jpg)
Meet Domenica Artese and see the pasta saucepan from Italy she used to make bathwater for her kids when they arrived in Australia in 1955. Continue reading
