Tue September 28th: Took a little sleep in and cooked a big brekky then contacted Brendan. We met up in town and did the walking tour together. Lovely old stone buildings. The Museum was good though I did not like the stuffed animals. The highlight for me was the Migration Museum. South Australia was ‘colonised’ by free settlers-no convicts in these parts. Different story to Sydney and Melbourne. The story of the ‘Ten Pound Pom’ in the fifties and sixties was very poignant. They thought that they were coming to the promised land and ended up in old army huts. It was an assisted passage scheme and between 1947 and 1972 over one million came not just from GB but also from the Colonies and even from Ireland where apparently if you were born before 1949 you could be considered a British subject. I seem to remember that Benjy from the Riordans was going to go at one stage but saw no mention of that on the displays!
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Benjy and The Riordans
Tue September 28th: Took a little sleep in and cooked a big brekky then contacted Brendan. We met up in town and did the walking tour together. Lovely old stone buildings. The Museum was good though I did not like the stuffed animals. The highlight for me was the Migration Museum. South Australia was ‘colonised’ by free settlers-no convicts in these parts. Different story to Sydney and Melbourne. The story of the ‘Ten Pound Pom’ in the fifties and sixties was very poignant. They thought that they were coming to the promised land and ended up in old army huts. It was an assisted passage scheme and between 1947 and 1972 over one million came not just from GB but also from the Colonies and even from Ireland where apparently if you were born before 1949 you could be considered a British subject. I seem to remember that Benjy from the Riordans was going to go at one stage but saw no mention of that on the displays!
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