| MARCH 2009 Pages - Page 6 |
| THIS IS PAGE 6 OF MARCH 2009 PAGES - MAR0906 |
WHO IS PAMELA ???
One person's trash is another person's treasure.
And so it was when a school history teacher and a keen student of history came across 3 photo albums in the garbage bins put out for collection.
The albums had been carefully prepared. Each photo had been carefully labelled with a comment typed onto a small label. The typewriter
appeared to have been a manual typewriter. Most of the album comprised postcards and greeting cards. So what do we learn about the people
involved in these photo albums?
The album comprised photographs of Pamela. The postcards were sent to Pamela's mother and father. Just as Pamela was an exuberant sender
of greetings cards, her parents carefully collected them and catalogued them in the photo albums. Pamela sent cards at Easter and Christmas,
on her parents birthdays and wedding anniversary and on other occasions from various locations throughout the world. It would be fair to say
Pamela was a devoted daughter.
The history teacher has taken the postcards and intends to read them all, to examine them forensically to see what they tell us about Pamela.
She intends to use the cards as a teaching aid - to demonstrate how historians work with source materials to write "his-story". As we said some
one's trash is another's treasure. Of course, two intriguing question,s to which there may be no answer is - what happened to Pamela's parents
(probably deceased and the albums thrown out) and why didn't Pamela claim them? (possibly she is living overseas and did not stay around to
clean up her parent's possessions following their death or put no value on them).
A cursory glance of the cards tell us this:
Pamela's mother's name was probably Kathleen MacMillan. Pamela's parents were living in the Sydney suburb of Greenacre in the early 1970's.
The address was 18 Pelman Avenue. We guessed Pamela was born in about 1950.
The photo's below were taken on 26 March 1972. It was a Sunday.
We believe Pamela is in the purple dress and her Mum is wearing the yellow dress and her Dad the shorts and long socks.
It seems Pamela went overseas in 1972 or 1973, and settled in London. She travelled frequently and spent Christmas 1973 in Austria. In 1992
she was visiting the USA. It seems she married in about 1990.
One postcard shows she was back in Australia on 22 November 1990. She visited Mt Kaputar which she said "is "a lot cooler than the 35 degrees
heat here (it is 1 hour away)". The postcard is postmarked "Narrabri".
The photo below shows Pamela at Loch Ness, Scotland in 1973.
The one below is a photo of a decorated Hills Hoist in the backyard of the home at Greenacre taken on Sunday 26 March 1972.
SO :- Who is Pamela ? Where is she now ? What is "her-story"?
One person's trash is another person's treasure.
And so it was when a school history teacher and a keen student of history came across 3 photo albums in the garbage bins put out for collection.
The albums had been carefully prepared. Each photo had been carefully labelled with a comment typed onto a small label. The typewriter
appeared to have been a manual typewriter. Most of the album comprised postcards and greeting cards. So what do we learn about the people
involved in these photo albums?
The album comprised photographs of Pamela. The postcards were sent to Pamela's mother and father. Just as Pamela was an exuberant sender
of greetings cards, her parents carefully collected them and catalogued them in the photo albums. Pamela sent cards at Easter and Christmas,
on her parents birthdays and wedding anniversary and on other occasions from various locations throughout the world. It would be fair to say
Pamela was a devoted daughter.
The history teacher has taken the postcards and intends to read them all, to examine them forensically to see what they tell us about Pamela.
She intends to use the cards as a teaching aid - to demonstrate how historians work with source materials to write "his-story". As we said some
one's trash is another's treasure. Of course, two intriguing question,s to which there may be no answer is - what happened to Pamela's parents
(probably deceased and the albums thrown out) and why didn't Pamela claim them? (possibly she is living overseas and did not stay around to
clean up her parent's possessions following their death or put no value on them).
A cursory glance of the cards tell us this:
Pamela's mother's name was probably Kathleen MacMillan. Pamela's parents were living in the Sydney suburb of Greenacre in the early 1970's.
The address was 18 Pelman Avenue. We guessed Pamela was born in about 1950.
The photo's below were taken on 26 March 1972. It was a Sunday.
We believe Pamela is in the purple dress and her Mum is wearing the yellow dress and her Dad the shorts and long socks.
It seems Pamela went overseas in 1972 or 1973, and settled in London. She travelled frequently and spent Christmas 1973 in Austria. In 1992
she was visiting the USA. It seems she married in about 1990.
One postcard shows she was back in Australia on 22 November 1990. She visited Mt Kaputar which she said "is "a lot cooler than the 35 degrees
heat here (it is 1 hour away)". The postcard is postmarked "Narrabri".
The photo below shows Pamela at Loch Ness, Scotland in 1973.
The one below is a photo of a decorated Hills Hoist in the backyard of the home at Greenacre taken on Sunday 26 March 1972.
SO :- Who is Pamela ? Where is she now ? What is "her-story"?
