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The 1973 Diary, Part 1

Head shot of 2 women smiling
At Aunty Jan's (Mrs Anderson) 90th Birthday celebrations. 27 August 2017. Trenna was happy to be there.

15 Year Old Trenna’s Own Words

1st January – 14th January 1973

A brief intro and rave from Greg, then a transcript of Trenna’s first diary.

Intro

In the Kitchen Tapes Trenna mentions that she kept a diary for the first time in 1973. As it turned out there were many days she didn’t diarise and the 1973 Diary was the last she did regularly until until 2006.

Trenna and I partly transcribed the 1973 Diary when our interest was … Read the rest ... “The 1973 Diary, Part 1”

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1970s GFS Kitchen Tapes

The Kitchen Tapes # 20

Barby and Trenna Seckington sitting
"Barby (mummy) & me". August 1971. At the Leederville house on the day Trenna found out she was an aunty.

Recorded 11 June 2018

Girls Friendly Society (GFS) – but will they be friendly?

GM:  We are continuing our recordings with Trenna Mahney.  Today is Monday, the 11th of June 2018.  Tren, we’ve talked a lot about Craig House.  Eventually you moved out to Girls’ Friendly Society. I think you were 15, it was 1973.  Tell me about that era.

THM:   Well I turned 15 in September 1972, and that was the final year of Craig House.  I spent the … Read the rest ... “The Kitchen Tapes # 20”