Newspaper articles about friends of the site....
 

 
 
 
 
 

Local family emigrates..

 

The Harris family leaves from Wellingborough station.. 1957..
heading for Canada.. [ thanks Trevor ]

Local girl.....   in Australia....

For many people on the Tableland, Shirley Leswell..[ nee Shirley Harris ].. 
is the face of the Mareeba Art Society.
She was also the face of the Mareeba Art Development Group..
 and of the original Mareeba Art Society before that..
for most of the time..  since she joined in the early 1960s...
 

She came to Mareeba via western Australia..  where she met her husband Des..
and the Northern Territory...  and Adelaide before that...
AND... a very long way back... the East Midlands in England,
where she was born [ Rushden ] and lived...
 until she decided ..somewhere on the other side of the world...
 might be an interesting place to visit
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"Shirl's people" are well known around the tableland... 
whimsical little clay figures Shirley has made for years..
 in her "Sal Jar"... pottery that she runs from a shed in her home...

"Sometimes it's people... and sometimes animals... 
 but I guess everyone knows them by now... .as "My People" she said..
She also does a nice line in teapots holding a successful exhibition recently
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And the future.... Well probably much like the past she reckons
Running things..  doing things..  making things..  and enjoying myself doing it...

Thanks to..  Al Wise...  Hank Howard.. for these newspaper articles...

 

 

 facing.. from left.. J. Smith.. Col. Weidner.. McClintol.. Uklu.. Hugh Bennett.. Breeding..

1963....  Chelveston Fire Department wins the Grand award..
competing against all A F fire departments...
 for Exceptional and Outstanding fire protection and prevention year round...

Some help at the Sywell air show....

 

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