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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”

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1970s Kitchen Tapes Music Recipes

The Fourth Kitchen Tape

3 people at the Perth Airport
Helen, Bob and Trenna near the Orbit Inn at the Perth Airport January 1976

Recorded 13 April 2018

Before we Start

[GM: As the title suggests, this was the fourth of 24 recordings done at our kitchen bench in Kensington, Western Australia. As part of the preparation for putting it on this website, in February 2022, I asked our friend Helen to read through this transcript and the one from 7 June 2018. Below you will find some of Helen’s comments interspersed. My thanks to Helen for doing that.]

GM: OK, so it’s the … Read the rest ... “The Fourth Kitchen Tape”