Birthdays at Coorparoo in the 1940s
Photos 1 and 2: Mum's 8th birthday
Photo 3: Mum's 10th birthday
Photos 1 and 2: Mum's 8th birthday
Photo 3: Mum's 10th birthday
Photo 1: Harvest festival 1940
Photo 2: From photo notes - Dean Barrett (see notes below) wearing gaiters, Mr Leigh Nixon-Smith, Maurice Pay and Mr G R H (Roy) Gill opening church fete on 28th September 1940
Photo 3: Church fete 28th September 1940
Photo 4: Belfry and flower stall in 1940 (probably the church fete 28th September 1940)
Photo 5: Preparing for the church fete 13th September 1941
Photos 6 and 7: Church fete 13th September 1941
Photo 8: St Stephen's YMS in 1944
Photo 9: Garden party 9th November 1946
[From further research The Very Reverend W.E.C. Barrett was Dean of Brisbane and retired in 1952. He arrived from England in 1906 and was service chaplain in England and France during WWI.]
From photo notes:
Photo 1: Allan Semmens from St Thomas, Essendon (left) and Captain Shrum of the US Navy (right) with Mum.
Photo 2: Captain Shrum of the US Navy
The photos were probably taken about 1944 and at St Stephen's Anglican Church Coorparoo.