G’day Marianne
Are you related to Wilma K? She taught my kids at the Kindy in Ashgrove.
Small world, isn’t it?
Neil

Only just saw your reply. I do seem to remember there being a prison nearby already and also an army camp. I returned to Australia this summer to visit my daughter. We didn’t make it to wacol but we had a week in Sydney a week on the gold coast and the down to melbourne . I visited prahran where I found our old apartment and also my old school which has niw been made into an auctioneers. …if was very emotional. Had a lovely trip. My daughter is still there she will he back for xmas she lives Australia so much.

Hi Suzanne,
My dad walked through those “woods” on the way to catch the train to work in 1965. One morning he had his shirt unbuttonned and a bug flew inside it. He promptly ripped off his shirt to the amusement of other people walking nearby. I recently re-visited Wacol railway station. There’s a huge prison where the hostel used to be, and there’s a bike path which passes in front of the prison and goes near the railway station. There’s still plenty of trees there though.
Neil

I remember going through some woods to get the train to the school & being scared as the other kids would tell me of the “peck-eye birds” (magpies as i know now) would get me!! So i would run through the woods. I remember the toilets in the convent were wooden blocks with a hole in and at the bottom of the playground & i hated using them. Wow the memories have been flooding back today. 🙂