Born in North Fremantle. Apart from, my Dad worked in the post office, well actually the telephone branch, and he. But apart from the three years up in York, I lived all the time down here in Perth. To get promotion. So he was lucky enough to go to York, which was only sixty miles away. He could have gone to any place but he went to York and we spent three years up there.
And we. Well my daughter would say…In fact she was amazed, just the other day. We only wore shoes on Sundays, I think. But no kids wore shoes normally to school as far as I remember. It is only when you got dressed up that you wore them. Lots of kids wore sandshoes. Oh well, maybe if there was a school concert or something or other like that.
Or for going to church on Sundays you would. Oh York was a pretty important town too because it was on the railway down to Albany. He was in Z force. He went behind the Jap lines and all that sort of thing. I went to school with his sister up in York. Then when we came down from York in and I went to Perth Boys. Before we move on from York can you tell me what sort of things you would get up to on the weekend as a kid growing up in a small country town?
They are well organized into cricket and footy and so forth. Back in the. Mucked about. That was the expression I would imagine. We used to go out…Dad used to go out. There was Fremantle Boys and Perth boys. And of course there was a junior tech.
But kids came from everywhere to go to Perth Boys. I can remember one kid came from Mundajop. Of course there was Modern School too but. Modern School was the elite school. As you probably know, Bob Hawke went there, and people like that. All the brainy ones. Perth Boys used to be pretty…Well now days they would reckon it was pretty grim I suppose but….
