This handwritten letter was discovered among the contents of Beatrix Edith Straw’s travelling trunk, an object donated to the Woolpack Inn Museum in Holbrook. Beatrix, better known as Trixie, was born in Parel (a suburb of Bombay, India) on 2 July 1906. She grew up as the eldest of eight children in Parel and later […]
At the age of twenty one, Lois Carrington began work as a Migrant Educator in June 1949. During her career she worked at the Bonegilla Migrant and Reception Centre where she made and used hand-puppets to help teach English and cultural awareness. The migrant families who arrived at Bonegilla from 1947 onwards were taught English […]
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