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From: "Janice Doughty" <>
Subject: Re: Re:[ANS] A Sentimental Journey
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:49:41 +1100
References: <005301c3b9d0$327488e0$0100000a@LESLEY>


Lesley,

Yes, Sydney has a great history from the early 1900s to the 1950s, it was if
time stood still over the first 50 years of that new century, though that is
not true really, as technology was working in the background all the time.
I think it was the two World Wars that revolutionised our way of life and we
really did not feel the changes until the mid to late1950s.

I hope someone out there can help you discover your Uncle George and his
story and it is a shame that your grandfather was such a private man, he
many have had some great tales to tell. You also have some wonderful
memories of much gentler times. My grandfather being Irish, told many, many
stories to his daughters. I never knew him, as he died before I was born.

One very important part of Sydney Town was Paddy's markets at the Haymarket.
Very rarely did we ever have a roast chicken dinner, I think it was at
Christmas time when we did. I can remember my father coming home from the
markets with a string bag and a live chook in it with it's head sticking out
of one of the holes. I also can remember what came next to prepare the poor
chook for the oven.

We are so lucky that there were people out there that put themselves on the
line to fight to preserve our heritage, which included Paddy's Markets, The
Rocks, Victoria Street, (Kings Cross) Darlinghurst, Queen Victoria Building,
and the old Morton Bay Fig tree in the Domain. However, sadly we lost many
of the great old colonial buildings, including the old Royal Exchange
building on the corner of Bridge and Pitt Streets, the wonderful strange
wedge shape Herald Building on the corner of Pitt, Hunter and O'Connell
Streets and the colonial Goldsborough Mort building, in Pitt Street taking
up the whole block from Hunter to Bond Street, where Australia Square is
today and who can forget the trams, especially the ones which took you to
Bondi, Bronte and Coogee for a day at the beach.

Regards,
Janice


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lesley" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 6:03 AM
Subject: Re:[ANS] A Sentimental Journey


>
> Hi Janice and Listers,
>
> I loved reading your Sentimental Journey. You bought back memories for me.
I am 52 and I can remember a Baker, "Milko" and even a "Rabbito" back in my
early years.
>
> As children my aunt (18 mths older) and I would stand on each others back
at the front gate to fetch the bread before the birds would get to it,
sometimes pulling a cottage loaf in half and eating the soft bit sticking
out before taking it into Nan. Skimming the cream off the top of the milk
for our porridge before it was stirred in or saved for a cake. It would be
nice to turn back the clock for a week or two.



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