One of our members, Patricio Parrague, recently donated his small collection of Matchbox toys to our museum to add to our collection. One of Patricio’s hobbies is photography so he offered to photograph the collection and put them on his Flicker Site so that anyone around the world can enjoy them. As well as the photograph he also posts a full description.
When I’m an old lady, I’ll live with each kidAnd bring so much happiness – just as they did.I want to pay back all the joy they’ve provided,Returning each deed! OH, they’ll be so excited! I’ll write on the wall with reds, whites and blues,And I’ll bounce on the furniture, wearing my shoes.I’ll drink from…
Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine …. A man’s home is his castle, in a manor of speaking. Dijon vu – the same mustard as before. Practice safe eating – always use condiments. Shotgun wedding – A case of wife or death. A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy. A hangover is…
Public Transport: These days, we hop on a train, or a bus…we don’t think much of it. But public transport was very different back in the eras when our grandparents and great-grandparents were alive. In the early 1900s, buses as we know them today did not exist. Trains were steam-powered or powered by electricity. Electrically-powered…
I knew the Farleigh Nettheim tannery at Concord during my childhood days. I was born in 1935 and lived with my family at No. 6 Finch Avenue. Our back gate opened onto the eastern end of Crane Street which we always referred to as “the back lane” since it was an unpaved dirt road that…
On Thursday, October 13, 2022, the City of Canada Bay Heritage Society lost one of its most enduring, influential, universally friendly and hardworking members when Alan Wright died peacefully in Concord Hospital. Alan was one of our society’s last three active founding members and will be sadly missed. For many years he was our President….
The idea to build this health centre was conceived by Alderman Brice Mutton when Mayor of Concord and, in 1943, the council invited tenders for the “construction of a baby health centre at Central Park, Concord. Plans and specifications may be inspected at the Council’s office. Tenders close 9th February”. Three hundred people, including mothers…
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