Tasmanian Tiger Snake There are only three species of snakes in Tasmania, the tiger, copperhead and the whip snake, the latter being the smallest and the least seen. The tiger snake is so named as it sometimes has striped bands around its body. It is the largest and most aggressive of the three varieties and […]
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IVAN JOHN BADCOCK – Church Life
Sunday School I grew up in a Methodist family and have remained a member all my life, although since 1976 is now known as the Uniting Church in Australia. My baptism occurred at the Bracknell Methodist Church on 28 November 1943, travelling there by horse and jinker. Bracknell was four miles from Bishopsbourne but the […]
Ivan John Badcock at work – Launceston Benevolent Society
For 7 years, 2001 to 2008, I worked as Administrator for the Launceston Benevolent Society. The Society is the oldest of its kind in Australia, being established in September 1834, for purpose of providing assistance to the destitute and poor in Launceston and such other parts of Tasmania as the committee of management may determine. […]
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 […]
Ivan John Badcock’s U.K. Forbears to Australia
This article includes a list of Ivan’s British Forbears, including when they arrived in Australia and on which ship, along with other interesting information about each person. Many are featured in expanded articles on History Over Dinner. YEAR/SHIP NAME RANK RESIDENCE U.K. & NOTES 1788Scarborough (First Fleet) Herbert, John Alexander Convict London (1767-1846), tried at the […]
Life as a bank teller in Rosebery, Tasmania – 1963
At the age of 19, I reached Rosebery on the West Coast of Tasmania arriving at the beginning of January 1963 and would remain stationed in the town until late October in that year. It was my first transfer and first time living away from home and had not previously visited the town or area. […]
Launceston Junior Technical School, later (1949) known as Launceston Technical High School
MOTO: CUM STUDIO ET HONORE – With Zeal and Honour. Beginnings – On 10 February 1919, when the school doors were thrown open to admit students, 55 boys were enrolled and soon after, increasing to 63. Later in the year, the Spanish flu struck, and the school was closed from late August till mid-October, and […]
Ivan Badcock: Primary Schooling Bishopsbourne & Bracknell – 1948-1955
I commenced school at Bishopsbourne after the September school holidays in 1948 and remained there until the end of the school year in 1954, going onto Bracknell for the 1955 year. The headmaster and only teacher when starting school was Mr. Harry McGuire who was quite young and newly married and had till wars end […]
Bishopsbourne – Chronology
Bishopsbourne, Tasmania, as a named place, came into existence in 1844 when Bishop Francis Nixon, the first Church of England bishop in Van Diemen’s Land, purchased part of the Vron farm property from the William Gwillim Walker Estate. Bishop Nixon designated that the College being established be known as Christ’s College and the township Bishopsbourne. […]