Nov 10, 2024
Hendrika de Vries, born and raised in Amsterdam, emigrated to Adelaide with her family as a young girl and became a swimming champion, young wife, and mother in Adelaide. The H&GHS recorded an online conversation with Henny from her home in Santa Barbara... 
Nov 10, 2024
COMING TO AUSTRALIA Bill Tipler arrived in Australia from the UK as a £10 Pom aboard the P&O Otranto in 1956, accompanied by his mother, May, father William, and sisters Elizabeth and Jennifer. Before making the journey, he completed an apprenticeship in pattern... 
Nov 4, 2024
PART 1 - WORKING AT WESTS THEATRE In this video Ayneslie recalls her time working first as an usherette, then in the ticketing office and finally in the booking office at the new Wests Theatre in Hindley Street Adelaide, which opened in 1939. She was earning about... 
Jun 30, 2024
Fishing We used to go do a lot of fishing on the jetty, but my older brother was a better fisherman than I and we’d ride our bikes down to the jetty mainly in the night to catch Tommy Ruffs.... 
Mar 9, 2024
“The postal facilities at Grange are a hundred years behind the times,” said Mr. G. W. Stacey, on Tuesday morning, 30th March 1909. Feature image: Marett’s Store and 1st Grange Post Office, c.1890(Courtesy of State Library of South Australia B 15190 –... 
Jan 28, 2024
(The following stories form an abridged version of an article written by Phillip Allen and published in the H&GHS Journal 44, November 2023) Feature image: Grade 6, Henley Beach Primary School c. 1952Courtesy of Jim Rutherford, (H&GHS Collection) World War II... 
Dec 8, 2023
Early History A meeting to discuss forming the Grange and Henley Beach Bowling Club was held at the Grange Institute on the 12th May, 1906 at which Alderman King from the Henley and Grange Council offered land to establish bowling rinks near the Kirkcaldy station. His... 
Dec 1, 2023
The advertisement above appeared in ‘The Advertiser’ on Saturday 10 March 1917. Below is an extract from the report in ‘The Register’ on Monday 12 March 1917 of the unveiling of the Honour Roll and the swim. ” ….. Prior to the race,... 
Nov 23, 2023
[Fred and Florence Lill c. 1904] Jillian Crider has lived for many years at Grange. In the story below Jillian shares memories of her grandfather and grandmother who were prominent residents and respected citizens of Grange. I lived much of my life in the house at 620... 
Oct 3, 2023
Ron Jones, who was born in 1915, lived in Grange since he was two years old. In this audio interview recorded by George Willoughby in March 1988 he recounts a personal story of boys at Grange Primary School swimming in a nearby creek in the 1920s. Over by Mr.... 