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The Postcard
A postcad bearing no publisher's name that was posted in Port Saïd, although the date of posting is not legible. It was sent to:
Mrs. Torson & Miss Hamilton,
49, St. Leonard's Avenue,
Hove 3,
Sussex,
England.
The message on the divided back was as follows:
"Friday - Approaching Port Saïd.
Dear All,
Having a simply glorious time.
Everything is perfect - meals,
cabins and weather.
The glorious Mediterranean
Sea certainly is what we have
ever read about it.
We've had no sickness and
don't expect any now.
The weather has got warmer
every day since we left Tilbury,
and we expect the real heat
once we are going through
the Suez Canal and Red Sea
tomorrow.
We hope to read Aden on
Wednesday and can't wait
for it.
We all send our love to
everyone and will keep in
touch later as we get nearer
to Australia.
Love,
All the Ball family."
RMS Strathaird
RMS Strathaird, later TSS Strathaird, was an ocean liner of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O).
She was the second of five sister ships in what came to be called the "Strath" class.
All previous P&O steamships had black-painted hulls and funnels, but Strathaird and her sisters were painted with white hulls and buff funnels, which earned them the nickname "The Beautiful White Sisters" or just "The White Sisters".
Strathaird and her sister ship RMS Strathnaver were Royal Mail Ships that worked P&O's regular liner route between Tilbury in Essex, England and Brisbane in Queensland, Australia.
In 1935, they were joined by the third ship of the class, RMS Strathmore.
Strathaird remained in service for almost 30 years, being scrapped in 1961.
-- Building the Strathaird
The Vickers-Armstrong shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness built all five "Strath" class liners. Strathaird was launched on the 18th. July 1931. She was completed in January 1932, and left Tilbury on her maiden voyage on the 12th. February 1932.
In 1929, P&O had introduced its first large turbo-electric liner, RMS Viceroy of India. The company chose the same propulsion system for Strathnaver and Strathaird, but the "Straths" were slightly larger ships, and accordingly their turbo-electric equipment was much more powerful; they were about 3 knots (5.6 km/h) faster than Viceroy of India.
Strathaird was very similar to Strathnaver. Each had four water-tube boilers and two auxiliary boilers. The boilers had a combined heating surface of 56,000 square feet (5,203 m2) and supplied steam at 425 lbf/in2 to two turbo generators. These supplied current to two electric motors.
British Thomson-Houston of Rugby, Warwickshire built the turbo-generators and motors. The motors drove a pair of screw propellers.
Like Strathnaver, Strathaird had three funnels but only the middle one served as a smoke stack: the first and third funnels were dummies.
Strathaird and Strathnaver were each equipped with direction finding equipment, an echo sounding device and a gyrocompass.
As built, Strathaird had accommodation for 498 first class and 668 tourist class passengers.
-- RMS Strathaird in Service
Strathaird joined Strathnaver on the Tilbury — Brisbane route via the Suez Canal. However, in December 1932, Strathaird became the first P&O ship to work a cruise, when she took a five-day excursion from Sydney to Norfolk Island. Later in the 1930's, she made occasional cruises from UK ports.
-- RMS Strathaird in WWII
In 1939 or 1940, the two sisters were requisitioned as troop ships. Strathaird made two convoy voyages taking troops from Australasia to the Middle East Theatre of WWII and then went to Liverpool for a refit.
This was interrupted in June 1940 when Strathaird was ordered to take part in Operation Aerial to evacuate British and Allied personnel from western France. Strathaird evacuated 6,000 civilians and troops from the port of Brest.
In 1941, she supported the transfer of the first unit of Foresters from British Honduras (Belize) to Trinidad before transporting 114 Foresters to Greenock, Scotland. She remained a troop ship until the end of 1946 when she was returned to P&O.
-- RMS Strathaird After WWII
P&O had Vickers-Armstrong refit and overhaul Strathaird, starting in 1947 and completing work in January 1948. Her capacity for first class passengers was increased to 573, and her tourist class accommodation was reduced to 496. This reduced her total passenger capacity from 1,166 to 1,069.
Her dummy first and third funnels were removed, which made Strathaird look more like her later sisters Stratheden, Strathallan and Strathmore.
In 1954, P&O had Strathaird refitted again. First class was abolished and all accommodation was made tourist class, which increased total passenger capacity from 1,069 to 1,252.
Strathaird made her first departure from Tilbury in her new form on the 8th. April 1954. On the postcard she only has one funnel, therefore the card was posted between 1954 and 1961.
At the beginning of the 1960's, Strathnaver and Strathaird were almost three decades old and no longer reliable enough for mail and passenger service, so P&O replaced both ships with SS Canberra.
P&O sold Strathnaver and Strathaird for scrap to Shun Fung Ironworks of Hong Kong. Strathaird left Tilbury on the 17th. June 1961 for Hong Kong, where she became the first of the "Strath" class liners to be scrapped. Strathnaver followed her to the breakers in 1962.
-- RMS Strathaird Statistics
Christened 18th. July 1931 by Lady Margaret Shaw
Tonnage 22,284 GRT000
Length 638.7 feet (194.7 m)
Beam 80.2 feet (24.4 m)
Draught 29 feet 2 inches (8.9 m)
Depth 33.1 feet (10.1 m)
Installed Powe 6,315 NHP
Propulsion turbo-electric transmission;
Speed 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph)
Crew 490.
-- Notable Passengers of the Strathaird
Notable passengers of the Strathaird included:
(a) Egon Kisch
In November 1934, the Czechoslovak Communist writer, journalist and opponent of Nazism Egon Kisch sailed on the Strathaird to Australia.
He went there in order to speak at a conference organised by the communist Movement Against War and Fascism to mark the Centenary of Melbourne.
However when the ship called at Fremantle Harbour on the 6th. November, Federal authorities boarded her. They told Kisch that he would be excluded from Australia under the Immigration Restriction Act 1901, and placed him in the custody of Strathaird's master, Captain Carter.
On the 12th. November, Strathaird reached Melbourne, where a barrister for the Communist International Labor Defense organisation boarded her and served Captain Carter with a writ of habeas corpus.
This was to allow Kisch ashore in order to make his case for entry to the country. However Australian authorities still did not allow Kisch ashore, so on the 13th. November, as Strathaird was leaving Melbourne, he leapt from the deck and landed on Station Pier, breaking his right leg.
Victoria Police detained him and put him back aboard, but as Strathaird continued to Sydney Harbour Kisch's supporters took his case to the High Court of Australia, which ruled his exclusion from the country to be invalid.
On the 16th. November, Strathaird reached Sydney Harbour, where Federal authorities tried to use the Immigration Restriction Act dictation test to exclude him.
NSW police took Kisch into custody but released him on bail and, after further legal process, he remained in Australia speaking to public meetings until March 1935.
(b) Cricket Teams
Strathaird carried the 1948 Australian cricket team, nicknamed "The Invincibles", to England.
In September–October 1960, Strathaird carried members of the West Indies cricket team, who had been playing league cricket in England, from Tilbury to Fremantle and took them back in February–March 1961.
(c) David Hill
Australian public administrator and businessman David Hill migrated to Australia together with two brothers aboard the Strathaird in April 1959.
(d) Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John was a passenger, when as a young girl aged 5, she traveled to Australia from England with her family.
The plaque reads,
"The Reuniting Family
This art piece was commissioned by the Grollo-Ruzzene Foundation to commemorate Italian Immigration and all migrants, to Australia.
"Sculptured by Michael Meszaros, who captured the moment of the reuniting family.
"Unveiled by
"The Honourable Sir James Gobbo, AC, CVO, Former Governor of [Victoria], who came from a migrant family.
"16th December 2008.
". . . The father, joyfully, welcomes his family, with out-stretched arms. In one hand a felt hat, typically worn at the time and in the other a simple bunch of flowers."
". . . The bunch of flowers consists of the Calla Lily, a common white flower that grows profusely around Northern Italy, symbolic of the common people that migrated to Australia from Europe. The Eucalyptus branch, native to Australia symbolises and recognises the indigenous peoples, the traditional owners of this land."
2023 May 25.
Richard Godfrey Rivers (Government buildings, Franklin Square, Hobart) c.1920.
On the 27th of July 1899 Tasmanians went to the polls in what was to prove to be the final Federal Referendum. The colony voted overwhelmingly in favour of Federation, with 13,437 voting Yes and only 791 N0, the highest affirmative vote in Australia. The achievement of Federation was marked by reading of the proclamation of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria. The occurred in Hobart at the complex of public buildings and Supreme Cour of Tasmania that se see in the illustration. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court , Sir Jonh S. Dodds, took the oath as Administrator of Tasmania in front of a desappointingly small crowd in Macquarie Street. as Chief Justice, Dodds administered the government from the 14th of August 1900 to 8th November 1901, and entertained the Duke and Duchess of York at the Government House when they visited Tasmania after the opening of the first Federal Parliament.
Viewed from Franklin Square in the illustration , the complex of public buildings and Supreme Court is still existant today . Constructed of fine sandstone, these are impressive examples of the Victorian Classical Revival style. The public buildings were designed by W.W, Eldrige and built in 1883-7, with a third story added in the twentieth century; the Supreme Court was designed by W.P. Kay and built in 1860-1910. Prior to Federation, the public buildings housed seccons of the colonial administration; after Federation they served as offices for number of Federal departments.
Godfrey Rivers was born in 1859 in Plymouth, United kingdom. After training as an artist in London from 1877-63, he eventually migrated to Australia in 1889. The following year he left Sydney for Brisbane in order to take up a teaching appointment at the Brisbane Technical College. Rivers quickly immersed himself in the cultural life of the city and became an influential figure in the Brisbane art world. He served terms as president of the Queensland Art Society and was also instrumental in the establishment of the Queensland National Art Gallery, becoming its Honorary Curator from 1895 to 1915 In 1915 he left Brisbane for Hobart, where he died in 1925.
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Reproduction of original smoke house, Schwerkolt Cottage and Historical Museum complex, Mitcham (home.vicnet.net.au/~ndhsinc/index.html).
This stone smoke house, rebuilt using an original photograph of a smoke house used by the Schwerkolt family as a visual reference, would have been used to cure meats. The materials used for the original smoke house would have been locally sourced.
According to the brochure available at the information desk, Johann August Schwerkolt migrated to Australia from Prussia, sailing from Hamburg on the ‘Emmi’ and arriving in Hobsons Bay on 20th December 1849.
He married and bought land for farming in Northcote in the 1850s, but soon discovered his allotment was not big enough, so in 1861 he bought an additional parcel of land in the Parish of Nunawading by the creek. On this new land he built a three bedroom stone cottage for his burgeoning family, as well as other structures, including the original smoke house and a rather impressive cellar.
The buildings on the site were almost subjected to demolition, however - thankfully - the local council stepped in and not only purchased the property, but set about restoring the buildings and grounds as well. The restored cottage was officially opened by the Governor of Victoria, Sir Rohan Delacombe, on 17th November 1965, while a historical museum showcasing local history opened in 1977.
Today's topic was a random discovery that came about as a result of some cat-sitting I am doing in the area.
On some train sets, mostly those depicting "Ye Merry Olde England", there are often small country towns, etc, that have rolling hills, quiet small roads, a few houses and a country train station.
Then you'll find a small church, chapel, etc, usually on a hill. What I've done here is to create a Temple, to reflect the many religions that exist today in multicultural Australia.
According to the Macquarie (Australian) Dictionary, a Temple does include those who follow Christianity, as well as the more usual Buddhist, etc, temples. In Islam, temples are usually called mosques, whilst in Judaism, they're called synagogues.
So, I 100% scratch designed, built and painted my version of a Multi - Faith Temple, to encompass these various religions. This wasn't in any Kit, and there's no known design of this type, hence it being completely designed, built and painted from scratch by myself.
Seen here, and in three other images, the turrets and ground level arches, are from Islam, the roof itself is from the more contemporary Chinese Temples, and the central spire on the roof signifies those associated mainly with Christianity.
In this image, the symbols on these two sides are, left, Muslim Crescent Moon and 5 point Star, whilst at right, and running left - right, are (a) Hindu, (b) Sikh, (c) the main symbol of Buddhism and (d) Australian Aboriginal "Dreamtime" Ancestor Spirit, signifying the first Australian Aborigines who migrated to Australia between 60 000 to 100 000 years ago.
Hundreds of Australasian Gannets nest on the rock at Muriwai Beach near Auckland on the North Island of New Zealand, a colony which was established around 1975. One gannet flies above, showing off his wingspan which can reach about 6 feet or 180 centimeters.
The gannet colony starts to reconnect at Muriwai Beach in August and a single egg is laid somewhere September and November. The egg is incubated for approximately 44 days and the chicks will stay in the colony until February or March. For a 2 to 6 year period, the Australasian Gannets will migrate to Australia and then return to the coastal shores of New Zealand.
Sculpture, "The Reuniting Family," 525 Collins Street, Melbourne.
The plaque reads:
"This honouring of Italian immigrants to Australia has taken a number of years to realize. It recognizes approximately 400,000 Italian immigrants who came to Australia and all migrants. It shows a scene that has been experienced the world over, the separati0on and reuniting of the family.
"The Reuniting Family is set in the mid 1950s, in post World War II in Australia, where mainly blue-collar workers were sought for immigration, predominately men, Government policy, housing shortage and the cost of passage, all contributed to lengthy periods of family separation. The wife and children were left behind in Italy whilst the breadwinner, husband/father, migrated to Australia to work. By the mid 1950s greater possibilities for family reunion occurred.
"These sculptures depict that moment of family contact, they capture the tension, anxiety, fear, happiness and the many emotions that were felt by the various members of the family. There is apprehension between the two adults after many years apart, can they gather the thread of their separate lives and weave them together again?
". . . The older boy points in recognition towards his father, drawing him to the attention of his sister."
". . . The battered trunk and suitcase represents the family's past and future. They have taken all their belongings to start anew. Although more importantly this luggage holds the hopes, ambitions and dreams for a successful future together."
[Continued below:]
2023 May 25.
It was a farewell party for Pak Lam and his parents, in a few days time, the family will migrate to Australia permanently, or at least for several years. Pak Lam is five years old, when I asked him whether Australia is somewhere close or somewhere faraway, he answered with doubts, ‘somewhere close?’. The next time Pak Lam meets his cousins might be when he is a teenager. The physical separation of family, one would assumed can be compensated by web communication technology, but in most time these technologies create psychological boundaries. Judging it this way, the farewell could be an impactful event in Pak Lam’s life.
People on the ground:
These are some of my favourite photos I took when I was in the Middle East in January of 2006. I travelled with my father, uncle and grandfather to Saudi Arabia to complete the Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) with some other family friends. Afterwards we met up with my younger sister and went to Lebanon to visit my grandfather's family who he left when he migrated to Australia.
This trip was a life changing experience and I absolutely loved it. Hope to go back someday, but not before I grasp the Arabic language... Could be a while...
It was a farewell party for Pak Lam and his parents, in a few days time, the family will migrate to Australia permanently, or at least for several years. Pak Lam is five years old, when I asked him whether Australia is somewhere close or somewhere faraway, he answered with doubts, ‘somewhere close?’. The next time Pak Lam meets his cousins might be when he is a teenager. The physical separation of family, one would assumed can be compensated by web communication technology, but in most time these technologies create psychological boundaries. Judging it this way, the farewell could be an impactful event in Pak Lam’s life.
Both of these girls were rerooted by me for other people (GretchenVT & S) but they both decided to migrate to Australia to live with me yay!! :)
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This is my grandparents' dog, Fruitcake.
She's originally my Aunt's dog, but since she and my Uncle migrated to Australia, they had to leave Fruitcake behind. Now, she's my grandparents' dog. The other "apo" (grandchild). Haha.
George Paxevanos believes in making beautiful things. He has made furniture, houses and a variety of instruments, but he says for some reason violin-making has become his ‘addiction’. George migrated to Australia from Greece when he was young, and began making violins while recovering from a near-fatal car accident. He has been in almost constant pain since then, but says that when he is making a violin the pain is relieved, and he disappears into the process of making a beautiful instrument. It takes George about a year to make each violin, but he says the result is worth the time when the unique, handcrafted instrument is finished.
The beauty of making an instrument, to George, is the character that can be put into it. The shape of the instrument, the curve of the wood, the colour - are all crafted by his hand. George has found that people who want to make something beautiful, something unique, will often struggle to make money. He does not sell many of his violins because each one is individual and he can only sell them into good homes; George can remember almost all the people he has sold his violins to by name.
Details Betty Archdale was the daughter of a Scottish suffragette who graduated in both arts and law in the UK, but then migrated to Australia and became a senior education administrator and reformer. She was also a great sportswoman having captained the England women's cricket team in the 1930s. She greatly influenced the young women under her care both at university and high school. She was Headmistress of Abbotsleigh Girl's School Wahroonga from 1958 until her retirement in 1970.
In 1951 she built a rammed-earth house on a five acre block in Crosslands Road, Galston, where she lived for the rest of her life.
This photograph shows Betty when she was on the England Woman's Cricket Team Australia and New Zealand tour.
Helen Elizabeth Archdale (21 August 1907 – 11 January 2000) was an English-Australian sportswoman and educator. She was the inaugural Test captain of the England women's cricket team in 1934. A qualified barrister and Women's Royal Naval Service veteran, she moved to Australia in 1946 to become principal of The Women's College at the University of Sydney. She later served as headmistress of Abbotsleigh, a private girls' school in Sydney, and was an inaugural member of the Australian Council for the Arts.
Early life:
Archdale was born in London, the daughter of Helen Archdale (née Russel), a suffragette who was at one time jailed for smashing windows at Whitehall and was later renowned as a leading British feminist. Her father was an Irish professional soldier in the British Army, who died in World War I when Archdale was eleven. Her godmother was Emmeline Pankhurst. Archdale attended Bedales School in Hampshire where she learned to play cricket and, thence, to St Leonards School in St Andrews, Fife.
Cricket:
Archdale played as a right-handed batter and appeared in five Test matches for England between 1934 and 1937. She was the first captain of England, leading the team on their first tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1934/35. She played domestic cricket for various regional teams, as well as Kent
Career:
After school, Archdale attended McGill University in Montreal, graduating in 1929 with a BA in economics and political science. She studied law in London. Specialising in international law, she conducted part of her studies in the Soviet Union. In 1938, she was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn. During World War II, she served in the WRNS as a wireless operator in Singapore, arriving in July 1941 at the head of a group of forty Wrens trained in wireless telegraphy. She was awarded an Order of the British Empire for helping nurses escape from the conflict.
Having moved to Australia, in 1946 she was appointed principal of Sydney University's "Women's College", a post she held for 10 years. Archdale was a member of the University Senate for 25 years, and a television and radio personality throughout the 1960s. Archdale was headmistress of the private girls school Abbotsleigh in Wahroonga, Sydney for 12 years from 1958. She was credited with breaking down the rigid system of discipline at the school, introducing sex education, and abandoning gloves and hats as part of the school uniform. She also reformed the curriculum, introducing physics and cutting back on British, in favour of Australian, history. The Assembly Hall (1963) and Chapel (1965) both date from that time. She lived on an estate in Galston, Sydney, with her brother Alexander Archdale, an actor. In June 1968, Archdale was named as an inaugural member of the Australian Council for the Arts.
Honours and legacy:
In 1997, she was listed as a National Living Treasure In March 1999, Archdale was one of the first ten women to be granted Honorary Life Membership of Marylebone Cricket Club in England. She died on 1 January 2000 at the age of 92, in Sydney. The Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools "Archdale Debating" competition, involving Sydney's private and Catholic girls' schools, is named in her honour.
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ROLLICKER was a steel twin screw tug of 817 ton. Built in 1919 by Ferguson Bros Ld at Port Glasgow it was owned by the British Admiralty and registered in the port of London under a British flag.
Frederick Wilkinson (1901 - 1975) migrated to Australia from England in 1911. While wokring various jobs in and around central Sydney, Wilkinson acquired a camera and began taking photographs of vessels and harbour scenes. Many of his images were used by commercial photographers for souvenir postcards.
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Photographer: Frederick Garner Wilkinson
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The Tomerong Cricket Team in the 1909-10 season. Back left to right - Joe Barham?, Walter Barham, Don Bryce, Edward (Charlie) Watt. Centre left to right - Jack Pepper, Thompson (Ken Thomson?), Jim Barham, Sam Pepper, Joe Canavan, Alf Pepper. Front left to right - Tom Walsh, Thompson (James Thomson?). (Tomerong Past, TP2094) Shoalhaven's doyen of local history, Alan Clark, wrote about Jack Pepper; "John Pepper 1889-1978, always known as "Jack", made a great contribution to Shoalhaven cricket both on and off the field, and was honoured with life membership at the Association's 1947-48 annual meeting. Cricket was in his blood, for his grandfather (also John) had played in Nottinghamshire prior to migrating to Australia in 1848. Born at Tomerong, young Jack started playing with that club at 15 years of age, and was a member of the junior premiership team in 1908-09. He soon developed into a stubborn right hand batsman and competent right arm off-spin bowler, and by 1913-14 he had attracted the attention of the representative selectors. He was to make regular appearances in these games over the next 10 years. As captain of the 1913-14 second grade premiership side, he made top score of 48 in the grand final, and took eight wickets in Cambewarra's first innings. Such was his keenness for the game, in this era he often walked the 14 miles from Tomerong for games in Nowra. Jack featured in two first grade grand finals with Far Meadow in the early 1920s taking 13 wickets against Pyree in 1920-21, and 6/37 against Currambene the following year, but his team went down each time. The next year he was back with Tomerong, but was again in the runner-up team against Currambene. In 1926-27 he joined the Perseverance club in Nowra, and the change brought a change of Luck, for he was a member of the team which won three successive premierships in the late 1920s, and a fourth in 1931-32. He was particularly prominent in 1928-29 when he scored 54 and 71 in the grand final. By this time, Jack had become more active in administration, and for more than a decade he was an association selector and delegate. At the SDCA annual meeting in 1939, a vote of thanks was recorded for his valuable service, and while with the Nowra club, he served two seasons as President. He played first grade until he was over 50 years of age (being in the 1939-40 grand final with Wandandian) and then in the lower grades until he was 60. At one stage he played for 33 years without missing a match. He also qualified as an umpire and acted in this capacity over many years. A lover of all types of sport, he also found time to be involved in athletics, tennis, rugby league, woodchopping, shooting, cycling and boxing."
Silvio Apponyi
Sculptor
Born near Munich, Germany in 1949, Silvio migrated to Australia with his family at the age 18 months. He started carving in wood from the age of two and after completing school in South Australia he went on to study sculpture at North Adelaide School of Art.
Silvio won a German Academic Exchange scholarship and studied for one year at the Munich Academy of fine art. On his return and after completing his degree he entered the ‘monument’ trade where he acquired his technical skills with all manner of stone. He embarked upon his career as a full time sculpture in the late 80’s and works from his studio in Adelaide.
His artistic expression is quite diverse and includes topically Australian endangered species such as reptiles, frogs, birds, fish and insects. As well as working in large and often life sized forms, Silvio creates magnificent Netsuke miniatures – a skill that was boosted by his contract with internationally acclaimed carver Susan Wraight. His carvings are truly remarkable for their realism, beauty, delicacy and spirit. Collectors worldwide seek his works and Silvio is the recipient of many awards.
Hartmut Lahm came to Australia as a 16 yr old in 1929. In 1943 he and Joan Lahm were living at 5 Woolwich Road, Hunters Hill
Biography
Hartmut Lahm was born in Tallinn, Estonia, the son of a jeweller. In 1929, the family migrated to Australia where his early talents as an artist were encouraged and he enrolled in the Art School at East Sydney Technical College, Darlinghurst. Fellow students christened him “Hotpoint” which was rapidly shortened to “Hottie”. While a student he sold his first cartoon to The Sydney Mail (January 1930 page 58 “The Coogee Shark Fence”).
During the 1930s he took whatever freelance work was offered, contributing to both Smith’s Weekly and the Bulletin. In 1934 he created two comic strips for Fatty Finn’s Weekly, Basso the Bear and Popsy Penguin. When the comic folded in 1935 he went to the country, drawing caricatures in hotel bars at 2/- a time, but as fast as he made a few pounds he would spend it buying drinks for offended customers. In 1937 he returned to Sydney where he began a long association as a general cartoonist with Associated Newspapers, supplying covers, caricatures and cartoons for their various publications.
1937 saw the birth of his best known creation, Snifter, the piddling dog, a back page feature in Man magazine for over 30 years and the subject of special editions published to raise funds for the war effort. He drew many other cartoons for Man, and the comic strip Snowy McGann for the Sunday Sun from 1951–1954. He produced work for Qantas among many other clients during his life as a commercial artist, most of which only survive in the newspapers and magazines of the day. A brief interest in Black & White Photography saw a collection of his photographs published in Australasian Photo Review August 1951.
He also wrote and illustrated the children’s book Paddy Bow Wow, and was the illustratorof others including The Antics of Algy the Ant (Musette Morell), Lets Wander (Kathleen Simpson) and a series of books by George Edwards, including David & Dawn in Fairyland, Under the Southern Cross, and The Search for The Golden Boomerang published in conjunction with a popular children’s serial on radio 2UW (1941-1946).
For years before he became a name in Australian commercial art he rarely had more than 10/- in his pocket but by the 1940s he was considered “one of Australia’s busiest and most original artists” (People Magazine Aug 2 1950)
He married Joan Janetzki in 1941 and they had three sons (David, Jim and Nick). From then until his death he lived in Hunter’s Hill, surrounded by an artistic and what was then considered a bohemian community. Among his many friends were Cyril Pearl, Hal Missingham, Norman Lindsay, Clive Wallis, Bill (Wep) Pidgeon, Paul Beadle, William Dobell, Nora Heysen, Tom Bass and other fellow artists and identities of the day. He was a gourmet, lover of fine wine and a founding member of the Wine and Food Society. He continued to work until the 1970s, when ill health and a change in publishing technology and style saw less demand for his work.
Much of his original artwork was destroyed in ”cartoon bonfires” when newspapers and magazines were taken over and/or ceased publication, but some of Lahm’s original work was rescued and has survived in private and public collections. State Library of New South Wales, Art Gallery of Western Australia, The National Library, The Cartoon Bunker, Coffs Harbour NSW.
He died in Sydney in 1981.
Biography provided by June Lahm.
Last Updated
18 Feb 2021
Hartmut Lahm (1912–1981) · Australian Prints + Printmaking. (2025, October 7). Retrieved from www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/artists/19680/
Hartmut (23 December 1912 - 28 May 1981) and Joan Lahm
1939 May - not listed in Sydney Telephone Directory
1939 Nov - not listed in Sydney Telephone Directory
1940 May - not listed in Sydney Telephone Directory
1940 Nov - 1 Leichardt Road, Leichardt
1941 May - 1 Leichardt Road, Leichardt
1941 Nov - 1 Leichardt Road, Leichardt
1943 - 5 Woolwich Rd, Hunters Hill He is recorded in the Feb 1943 Sydney Telephone Directory here - also 1 Leichardt Road, Leichardt
1944 Feb - 5 Woolwich Rd, Hunters Hill He is recorded in the Feb 1943 Sydney Telephone Directory here - also 1 Leichardt Road, Leichardt
1946 Feb - 5 Woolwich Rd, Hunters Hill He is recorded in the Feb 1943 Sydney Telephone Directory here - also 1 Leichardt Road, Leichardt
1947 Feb - 6 Lloyd Avenue, Hunters Hill He is recorded in the Feb 1943 Sydney Telephone Directory here - also 1 Leichardt Road, Leichardt
1949 - 6 Lloyd Avenue, Hunters Hill
1954 - 6 Lloyd Avenue, Hunters Hill
1958 - 6 Lloyd Avenue, Hunters Hill
1963 - 6 Lloyd Avenue, Hunters Hill
1968 - 6 Lloyd Avenue, Hunters Hill
1977 - 7 Mount Street, Hunters Hill
1980 - 7 Mount Street, Hunters Hill
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Memorial plaque at Karrakatta Cemetery for Marjorie Louise Innocent (1923 - 21 May 1991). Marjorie was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England and migrated to Australia with her parents Francis John Innocent and Harriet Louisa Shaw. She lived in Mann Street, Cottesloe.
A ceremony and plaque dedicated to the families who migrated to Australia from Nieder-Weisel in the mid 1800s was held on 3rd October 2010.
Butzbach/Nieder-Weisel, Germany
Calidris alba (19-21 cm) is a nice little wader that breeds in the high Arctic and migrates to Australia for our summer.
A ceremony and plaque dedicated to the families who migrated to Australia from Nieder-Weisel in the mid 1800s was held on 3rd October 2010.
Butzbach/Nieder-Weisel, Germany
ithese were hunter dottrels (i think) reasonabally rare interspersed with terns . two large strictly controlled breeding areas in the vicinity of Kaikoura at an altitude of 1000 -1500 ft they migrate to Australia winter time.Taken in the entrance to Wellington harbour.
A Far Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) closed it’s eyes as it opens it’s long beak while standing along the waters edge on the shore of Alubijid town in Misamis Oriental.
The curlew is the largest of the European wading birds. This species usually stay during their breeding months in in northeastern Asia, including Siberia to Kamchatka, and Mongolia. During winter they migrate to Australia, South Korea, Thailand, New Zealand, and Philippines.
They visit Alubijid because these birds favor beaches with salt marshes which is found in the town.
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This photo honours John Wright's 31 years (1879-1910) as the Pastor of the Tuncurry Reorganised Church of the Latter Day Saints and resides near the front doors of what since 2001 has been a Community of Christ Church.
John Wright was born on 21st May 1835 in the village of Nether Dallachy, in the Parish of Bellie, County Banff, Northern Scotland.
He migrated to Australia, together with his friend Alexander Croll, on the 8th May 1860.
He converted from Presbyterianism to the Latter Day Saints (Mormon) religion around 1872, soon after entering a sawmilling partnership with Alexander Croll and John Rodger in Bungwahl at the top of the Myall Lakes.
For more detailed information on John Wright's work and life in Australia click HERE
In 1875 John Wright, chasing his dream of building his own shipyards, left his wife and several children in Bungwahl and along with two of his mill workers walked to Forster.
On his arrival he borrowed a boat from John Wylie Breckenridge, who had established a sawmill in Forster, and headed across Wallis Lake to the North Shore. There he saw a great opportunity to establish himself as a sawmiller and shipbuilder.
After taking out a 99 year lease on the Tuncurry Waterfront, and having sold his share in the mill at Bungwahl, he proceeded to build his own sawmill and within a year or two had also begun building ships capable of crossing the shallow Wallis Lake sand bar.
By 1878 he had also established another large sawmill and community at Avalon west of Nabiac and was finally able to bring his wife and family to join him on the North Shore.
John Wright was a patriarchal figure in the small community which he came to call Tuncurry, meaning 'plenty of fish' in the local Worami indigenous language. As the village grew, he soon established a church and a school though initially these operated from his own house.
Construction of a new church on land between Tokelau, Ernest Wright's home, and Wright's General Store, on Manning Street in Tuncurry commenced in 1910.
The new church opened its doors on 15th July 1910.
While John Wright funded much of the church's construction
it was designed by Elder Cornelius Butterworth who erected the frame then largely completed by Stanley Wright and Frank Avery, both church members.
Unfortunately John Wright's death in May 1910 meant he never got to deliver a service in the new church. In fact his funeral became one of the first services held in the newly constructed church.
The church was designed by Elder Cornelius Butterworth who erected the frame and construction was then largely completed by Stanley Wright and Frank Avery, both church members.
Following John Wright's passing his son Ernest became the Pastor and delivered the services from 1911 till his death in 1946.
If you have finally decided to pursue an immigration to Australia, you definitely have made a good choice, since the country has many opportunities just waiting for you. However, don’t be too excited yet. There are, in fact, many things that you need to take care of before you can apply for an Australian visa and fly to the county. Here are some tips that would help you in migrating to Australia.
Read more: Tips When Migrating to Australia
In all honesty I had another crap day today and really it is taking a lot out of me to keep going...
Anyway, this really used to be my play ground - When we first migrated to Australia we lived in government housing. My gran who I was visiting tonight still lives in the flat I lived in over 20 or so years ago... Gran refuses to move as the flats are located in prime real estate near a very high fashion and prestigous bit of Melbs... The flat was a great place to crash if I had been clubbing nearby and run out of money for the cab fare home.
A ceremony and plaque dedicated to the families who migrated to Australia from Nieder-Weisel in the mid 1800s was held on 3rd October 2010.
Butzbach/Nieder-Weisel, Germany
Khaled Sabsabi (10)
The Prophet, 2020
Acrylic, watercolour, oil stick and gouache on dye diffusion thermal transfer prints 6 x 10 x 15 cm
Born in 1965 in Tripoli, Khaled Sabsabi left Lebanon with his family, migrating to Australia in 1978 to escape the civil war in Lebanon. Sabsabi completed his Master of Arts from UNSW and started his creative practice in the late 1980’s, both as a performer and as a youth worker. In his work, he used his knowledge and passion for the arts to help young people coming from Arabic, Aboriginal and Pacific Islander backgrounds. From these earliest endeavours, Sabsabi’s work showed a strong interest in social justice, as he aimed at empowering marginalised individuals to counteract racism and Islamophobia.
Khaled describes his work, The Prophet, as a contemporary artistic interpretation inspired by small Islamic paper paintings that are dated back over millennia. The craft more commonly known as miniatures was used in manuscripts to tell sacred stories relating to the life of the Prophet Muhammad s. These works revisit and affirm the importance of
holding and sharing spiritual stories in this time and space.
@pomburner explaining the mechanics and acting as the #gamemaster . Last meetup before they (+ @igrepmo ) migrate to Australia. Took us 3 runs to “stop the temporal fault” objective. 🎲: T.I.M.E Stories : Asylum #timestories #timestoriesasylum #decksploration via Facebook
Truc Truong
Born 1987, Tarndanya/Adelaide. Lives and works Tarndanya/Adelaide.
I Pray You Eat Cake, 2023
toys, found objects, packaged food, synthetic polymer paint, fabric, wood, aluminium, stainless steel, electromechanical components, dried pig intestines and trotters, dried chicken feet, tassels, rope
Courtesy the artist
Treading a fine line between rage and humour, Truc Truong's practice considers the power dynamics woven throughout her family's history and the pressure to be a 'model migrant' in Australia.
I Pray You Eat Cake contains references to the artist's Vietnamese heritage - the rotating Lazy Susan table is synonymous with yum cha, while cured pig intestines, rendered gold, recall shrine or temple offerings. Allusions to Vietnam, France, Christianity and Buddhism are made through a riotous assemblage of found objects and fabrics, as well as toys and dolls from the artist's childhood.
Truong's family migrated to Australia from Vietnam in 1982. Her upbringing has been shaped by her parents' experiences of a Saigon that no longer exists, her own explorations of what it means to be Vietnamese-Australian and the complexities these experiences can pose.