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cooparia
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:40 pm    Post subject: mike cooper - holmesglen Reply with quote

I was resident at Holmesglen hostel from about 1953 (I was 11 years old) with my mother (jean cooper) my father (Les Cooper) and my brother Paul (three years younger than me.) - we only stayed for about three or four years i seem to remember. I attended Lloyd Street Central School. i have visited Australia eveery year for the past fifteen years as a performing musician and travelled extensively in Australia. In all that time i have never met anyone who i went to school with or who lived on that camp when i was there. My name is Mike Cooper and i currently reside in Rome/Italy.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 7:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was at Holmesglen Hostel from 1958 - 1962 with my parents, and I've never since met anybody who was there either; yet hundreds of families, if not thousands, must have lived at Holmesglen over the yesars.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i to was on holmesglen from 1967-1968
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's a photo taken in Holmesglen Hostel near the kindergarten, showing part of the Rec, Canteen and 2 huts in the early 1960s on
www.burwoodbulleyin.org
The photo's of two boys, David and Robert Van Asten, but although I was at Holmesglen then, I don't remember the family.
The hut in the photo that's half-hidden by the other one is the hut my parents and I lived in, hut 34. We faced the Rec across Power Avenue. There were two swings, a climbing frame and a chute on the other side of the Van Asten boys, but they're not shown in the picture.
My parents neveer took any photos of the Hostel. I think they didn't want to be reminded of it.
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