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We are seeking contact with any ex students of Frankston Teachers College who attended in 1960/1961. If you know of anyone in your family who was at FTC in those years, we want them to know that we are having a 50th Reunion in November this year.
Unfortunately, time and natural dispersal has meant we have lost touch over the years, and in those days every married lady adopted her husband's name, which makes it even more difficult to locate everyone.
Of the original 135, we have located just over half. We even have 4 of our orignal lecturers joining us. So if you, or someone in your family, were one of us, please contact me and I'll send you the details.
Sandra

I am looking for a building which was used as some sort of billet by members of the Fire Service during WW2. I had believed it was called Whitfiled House. This proved to be not the case, but that a Whitgift House was a possibility.
I have just had a suggestion from Minet Library Records, that there was a Whitgift House, Whitgift St, Kennington, SE11. It was immediately behind the fire brigade headquarters, which was on the Albert Embankment. According to the London County Council maps of bomb damage, it was was undamaged by enemy action.
I have checked with the Fire Service Museum, the library records and lastly from the Lambeth Archives. There was indeed some close collaboration between the London Fire Service and local councils during WWII. They  have a file of correspondence. Unfortunately it only contains fairly high level correspondence between the Fire service and the council about policies, emergency procedures etc. and doesn't include any detail about individuals or indeed about Whitgift House.
So, having exhausted all the places I can think of checking, I'm hoping that someone may have some knowledge of Whitgift House being used as accomodation by members of the AFS/LFS.
Sandra

We are trying to identify this chap. It would help if we knew when and what the uniform is. The only clue is that if it is around the 1900's it could be one person, if it actually in WW1 it could be another. The only clue is the uniform.
Can anyone help identify it please?
Sandra

I have recently returned from England where I did my share of cemetery searching. I was surprised to find a group of Australian War Graves and one other Australian Gravesite in a Commonwealth Grave Section of the Nunhead Cemetery. Nunhead Cemetery is in Southwark. It is perhaps the least known, but the most attractive, of the seven Victorian cemeteries on the outskirts of London.
I took photos of all 22 graves and will send a relevant pic to anyone who thinks that may have a family member buried there. It gives rank name and date of death of the following soldiers:
E L Lowe
H W Saur
A Callen
C G Longworth
C H Bock
C Munday
G W Wilson
Harold Leslie Skinner
J A Loxton
J H Lawn
J H Morgan
Leslie George Frew
P Jackson
R Fiddes
R L White
S H White
T E Herford
Walter Beecher Miller
L  L M Thompson
L R T Gilbert
V R Coombe
G H Bright
I hope this will be useful to someone.
Sandra

I wonder if someone can make Dilys fit to attend the Rose Queen festivities again?
Thanks as usual
Sandra