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,...
Hendrika (Henny) de Vries
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Stories from Henley and Grange
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Bill Tipler
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...
Ayneslie Dawson (nee Steeles)
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...
Merv Allen Remembers (Part 3)
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...
Grange & Henley Beach Bowling Club 1906-1923
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...
Mystery of the Missing Roll of Honour
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...
Fred and Florence Lill of Grange
[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...
A Grange School Story (c. 1920)
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...
Merv Allen Remembers (Pt 2)
I'll just talk a little bit now about my recollections of my school days. The only school was the Henley Primary School. There was no kindergarten...
Banner photo: Henley Beach January 1948, Courtesy of th History Trust of South Australia [public domain]