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kb3500
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 Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 5:16 pm Post subject: Introduction Smithfield Hostel |
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Hi All
I arrived with my parents at Smithfield Hostel on 19 December 1968 after disembarking the Fairstar in Melbourne and travelling by some antique train from Melbourne.
What memories even though I was 15 and what a difference to the little country village in Yorkshire .
I will get to the local library and look through the old photo's and see if I can obtain some of the hostel which I will upload.
I only spent a couple of years total in S.A. till 1999 then ended up coming back to settle here just a couple of miles from Smithfield where it all started. |
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Spike
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Location: Mid North of South Australia
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Hi KB3500, it seems that with Smithfield hostel being so small we don't have a lot of members who had the "pleasure" of passing through it.
I am not a migrant, but I have a great interest in migrants in SA as they were a big part of my childhood growing up in Angaston SA where the cement works employed many.
I have cleaned up a drawing showing the layout of the Hostel and you can see it at: http://www.migrantweb.com/hostelsforum/viewtopic.php?t=860
You can also see June's photos at: http://www.migrantweb.com/hostelsforum/viewtopic.php?t=861 |
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magi111
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 6:32 am Post subject: |
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Wow its really nice article....
Thanks for the great posting, I am looking for such types of information...
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ruby red
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Hello, our family lived at smithfield hostel from 1962, we came from Scotland.
my siblings names are:carlin,margaret,catherine,jonny(deceased) gordon and marion,would so love see find photo's! |
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Spike
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| ruby red wrote: | Hello, our family lived at smithfield hostel from 1962, we came from Scotland.
my siblings names are:carlin,margaret,catherine,jonny(deceased) gordon and marion,would so love see find photo's! |
Hello Ruby Red, Thankyou for freshening up this thread. You can see June's photos herehttp://www.migrantweb.com/hostelsforum/viewtopic.php?t=861
She and her family were there perhaps a little earlier than you, but no doubt the hostel had not changed much. |
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Taz
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We where there from October 8th 1969 for about seven months.
Going from the hostel and up into the "hills" without water wasn't a good idea in summer, 
Moved to Elizabeth Fields until I was eighteen and have lived in every state since. |
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Spike
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| Taz wrote: | We where there from October 8th 1969 for about seven months.
Going from the hostel and up into the "hills" without water wasn't a good idea in summer,
Moved to Elizabeth Fields until I was eighteen and have lived in every state since. |
Thanks for your input Taz and Welcome to the Forum. |
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