Sunday, 3 April 2011

Houses I've lived in

It is coming closer to the time when we will have to decide when to move out of our present home. I've lived in quite a number of houses so here's today's trip down memory lane.
My first home was in Yeerongpilly, Brisbane ( the following to *are in Brisbane unless noted otherwise)
Sometime late in 1931 or early 1932  the family moved to Dutton Park
Then when I was either 7 or 8 we moved to Annerley
when I was 10 we went to Amiens ( which is 17k NW of Stanthorpe in SW Qld.)
A couple of years later back to Annerely ( same house as before)
 Next move was to Clayfield
I'm not sure of the order of the next few moves  but I think it went like this:
Petrie ( just outside the Brisbane boundary)
South Brisbane
Wavell Heights
Bald Hills
somewhere in that time was a brief stay at Hamilton Heights
I started my secondary ( high) schooling while at Clayfield and ended it at Wavell Height so in the space of 4 years I had lived in 6 places.
In  1953 my parents moved to Melbourne and Alan and I stayed in Brisbane and lived in  a flat at Chelmer*
Bill and I were married in 1955 and went to Cloncurry; in NW Queensland; we lived in 2 different houses in our 3 years there
Next home was in Mackay where again we had 2 homes
From there it was back to Cloncurry where we lived in another 2 different houses
Finally we arrived in Toowoomba  a nd have lived in 2 houses here ( so far!)
If you add that up you will find that covers 19 houses ( counting Annerley as one)

If my calculations are correct I lived longer in the house in Dutton Park than in any other house until I came to Toowoomba in 1966. Unfortunately I have no real memories of that house just a few vague impressions. I will share some memories of life there next time.







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