The Second World War commenced on the 1st September 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Two days later, Britain and France declared war on Germany, with British Commonwealth countries, including Australia, joining in. In 1941, war expanded to the Pacific region when Japanese forces attacked United States forces at Pearl Harbor on 7 December. Many […]
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Ploughing in Tasmania
The plough is an important implement in farming and has been so for centuries. Its purpose is to help in preparing a seedbed for crop planting. It is uncertain when the first plough reached Northern Tasmania, the Colony’s major cropping region. In 1805, with the settlement facing starvation, Lieut. Gov. William Paterson wrote to Gov. […]
M.V. Cartela – An Historic Vessel
The Cartela (the Tasmanian Aboriginal name for a bull seal) became well known to me when travelling daily to work from the eastern shore to central Hobart on the western side of the River Derwent. This became necessary due to the Tasman Bridge becoming badly damaged and unusable when the bulk ore carrier, Lake Illawarra, […]
Uncle Tom’s “T”
Uncle Tom (Thomas Parsons), as he was locally known, was the proud owner of a “T” Ford car, which he purchased in 1943. Previously, it had been owned new by a nearby friend, Henry Hingston, but Henry had died in January 1943. The car had been placed for sale in a Launceston used car sale […]
Cornwall, England
A history written c1988 for inclusion in the French-Badcock family history book Go ….. Be Fruitful and Multiply.
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 […]