Open your eyes to Australia
© Jim Low
When I was a child, my family often used to go for picnics on a Sunday. After Sunday school, my father would have the car ready, my mother would have the sandwiches made and the drinks packed, and we would head off to some interesting part of Sydney.
Peggy Brooks was born Jean Linda Switzer in 1912 Footscray, Vic, to Henry Andrew Switzer and Emily Jean McCubbin, (known as Harry and Emma). She studied toe, ballet, and tap dancing with Jennie Brenan in Melbourne, Her first known foray into the world of entertainment was as a dancer at the age of fifteen when she did her first shows at the Saturday night “pops” at the local theatres. Continue reading “Peggy Brooks – Sweetheart of Song”
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The coming and going
The rise and fall
Water splashing
A sandstone wall.
Pocked-marked,
Pimpled with tiny shells
The suck and splash
The rising swell. Continue reading “Sydney Harbour Childhood”