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The 1973 Diary, Part 7

15 Year Old Trenna’s Own Words

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1 April – 15 April 1973

Sunday 1 April  

I got up at 8.30 and had breakfast. Thank goodness I didn’t have a stomach ache this morning. We went to Janette’s Sunday School.  At first we all just sat in the hall and sang songs.  Then we all broke into classes but no one came to Mr Nelson’s class so only 2 of us were in his … Read the rest ... “The 1973 Diary, Part 7”

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The 1973 Diary, Part 5

15 Year Old Trenna’s Own Words

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1 March – 15 March 1973

Thursday 1 March 

Got up at 7.00 had a shower and breakfast then I met Julie and Sue at 8.30. 

BC was the same as usual. I met Julie and Sue at 4.15 we talked then I walked Sue to her bus stop, we were really being stupid. 

I got home at 5.15. There was a message for me to ring … Read the rest ... “The 1973 Diary, Part 5”

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The 1973 Diary, Part 4

15 Year Old Trenna’s Own Words

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15 -28 February 1973

Thursday 15 February

Got up at 7.00 had a shower and breakfast. Left for BC at 8.15. Met Julie and Sue at 8.40. 

BC was the same as usual. Met Sue at 4.20 after waiting for about 15 minutes. She said Julie had to leave BC early, and she had just seen Murray Benton and was hiding from him. 

We went and had … Read the rest ... “The 1973 Diary, Part 4”

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The 1973 Diary, Part 2

15 Year Old Trenna’s Own Words

15th – 31st January 1973 – The Start of Business College, and arriving at GFS

Monday 15 January

It was the first day of Business College.  I got up at 7 and Uncle Frank drove me in to town. I got there fairly early and went straight to the office.  

I had to fill in a form, then I was given my timetable.
9-11am – Bookkeeping
11-1pm – Typing
2-4pm – Shorthand

My bookkeeping … Read the rest ... “The 1973 Diary, Part 2”

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The 1973 Diary, Part 1

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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The 23rd Kitchen Tape

Recorded 20 June 2018

The Brown Towel Caper

GM: Today is Wednesday the 20th of June 2018. Trenna Mahney will be speaking. 

Tren, we’ve talked a bit about your time at Girls’ Friendly Society in Adelaide Terrace? It sounds like an interesting period to do a bit more discussion.

[GM: phone call interrupts us]

I think we should look a bit more at this time at Girls’ Friendly Society.  The sort of things you did.  If we get … Read the rest ... “The 23rd Kitchen Tape”

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The Kitchen Tapes # 20

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”