A history written c1988 for inclusion in the French-Badcock family history book Go ….. Be Fruitful and Multiply.
Cornwall, England
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Ivan John Badcock at Work in Banking
Towards the end of the 1960 year, my Secondary Schooling education was ending, with the focus shifting to future work. I was 17 years of age and had completed 5 years at the Launceston Technical High School/Queechy High School, where I had attended academic subjects plus a required technical subject, which for me was metal […]
Ivan John Badcock’s Early Years
On 19 May, over 80 years ago, my father, Eric, recorded my birth in his diary “……….. the baby, which was a son, was born about 1 o’clock, weight 8lbs. 6¾ozs, length 22½ inches”. With no phone service at the farm, mother wrote a letter to Dad advising details “Baby was born somewhere about dinner […]
Eskleigh, Perth (Home of Peace)
Eskleigh, previously named Scone, was provided by William Gibson Jnr in 1944 to be a home for permanently incapacitated people and continues to operate today. The Home, built in 1870 for William Gibson, features a two-story residence with 18 rooms overlooking the Perth township and the South Esk River, Tasmania. The surrounding distant mountains add beauty to […]
Members of Rosebery Methodist Church in 1963
Rosebery Methodist Church On arrival at Rosebery in 1963, I soon joined in with the Methodist Church. It was a small group of some 16-20 attending services of which only six had Methodist membership with the remainder coming from a variety of other denominations, apart from Anglicans and Catholics who had their own churches. The […]
A Strasburg Clock Replica built by Sidney Roy Boon (1893-1944)
Around 1915, 22-year-old Sid Boon of Longford visited a display touring Tasmania, where a replica of the famous Strasburg clock was being displayed. He was so impressed that he was inspired to build a replica. With only a photograph and a glimpse of the exterior and working operations, coupled with his inventive genius, he set to work. After […]