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[Len]

The photo below is of a staff Christmas party held in the canteen around 1969. Not all the people in the photo actually stayed at the hostel, some where locals that just worked there.

Let�s see if we can put names to these faces?

[Len]

This is what we have so-far and I�ll update it as we learn more.

1...... Brenda Cowan. Resident, casual hostel/canteen worker.
2......
3 .....
4..... Jesabella. Canteen staff, lived in Berkeley.
5.... Alma brown. Resident, casual hostel worker.
6....
7.... Mr Burrage. Deputy manager.
8.... Barbara Holroyd. Resident, casual canteen worker.
9.... Margaret Holroyd. Resident, casual canteen worker.
10... Mr Hopper. Hostel manager.
11... Mrs Michaels. Resident, casual canteen worker.
12... Hilary Fitzgerald.
13... Hilary. Office clerk.
14... Miro.
15... Mrs Barr. House keeper.
16... Jean.
17... Millie. Canteen worker, lived in Berkeley.
18... Chief.
19... Joe. Chief.
20... Mary Dempsey. Resident, casual canteen worker..
21...
22... Stan. Hostel maintenance.
23... ?.......Hostel maintenance.
24... Rita Woodhouse, Resident, casual canteen worker.
25... Joseph. Chief.

Can you help?

[Phyl]

Hi Len
I remember Mr. Hopper and Mr. Burridge. Sadly the photo hasn't come up for me . I would love to see it
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Phyl

[Len]

Hi Phyl

I lost all my uploaded images when my other forums host changed hands. But I will try and get them back. I don�t even have any backups of them because my hard drive also pack-in a few months ago and I had to get a new pc. Fortunately I do have backups of my sites etc.

This was the image that was being display but without the added numbers. It was supplied by Christine Rush (Holroyd).
Holroyd Family: see here

[Phyl]

Hi Len.
Thanks for putting the photo there,I certainly recognise Bill Burridge in the back row and along from him could be Mr.Hopper ,unsure though It's a long time ago.Bill was a very nice chap. It's a great photo to see.
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[Tony]

The lady to the far left is my mother Brenda Cowan. We have this photogragh and would not have noticed her unless i had checked our copy. At the time she worked in the kitchen having prevoiusly worked as a cleaner for Mrs Barr.

[Len]

Hi Tony, glad you made it.
My mother �Mary� is the one with the blond hair and she�s crouched behind the four fellows in the front row. Mary also worked in the hostels canteen.

[Tony]

len i recognised your mother Mary and Rita Woodhouse, has we have that photo . We think the lady on the second row forth in is Alma Brown who was a resident and worked for Mrs Barr.The photo must have been, if Christmas, 1968, as we left that new year for Adelade and another new life.

[Tony]

Sorry Alma brown is fifth from the left.

[Phyl]

I remember the name Alma Brown. She probably came to our place at times.
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Phyl

[Phyl]

Just realised we are talking about Unanderra and yet that name Alma Brown seems familiar .I wonder if she ever worked at Balgownie or Berkeley
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Phyl

[Tony]

Hello Phyl i dont know weather Alma worked any where else other than unanderra. As we were involved in more important thinks than work.

[Len]

Seeing as I lost my original, I�ve now gone and put a new photo in my fist post along with the added numbers. I should have done this ages ago but you kow how it is.

At least now, it should make life a little easier.

[Roy]

So Your mum worked in the canteen Len.

That probably goes a little way to answering the perpetual residents question, how come there are never enough butter cubes?

Lol

[Len]

That�s probably because they were all collected and stored in our huge fridge, along with a large beaker of milk. I remember we had a large, very large plastic beaker 'with lid' and it was filled daily with fresh milk.