Bailey+G+HA

=media type="file" key="Small object big story2.wmv"Something that is inportant to me now=

"Bailey theres a snake!", is what I my mother screamed at me. The thing is this snake is about 6 inches long and was as dead as maggot. I took an instant liking to the knewly named Boris and decided that I wanted to preserve him. The next day I took him into school and got the science teacher to put a mixture of substances that would insure his well being. All the kids at school were very fasinated with Boris and he made an excillent stink bomb to set off in class.

I used to like taking off his lid and taking him out because he is all slimy and gross. Something that I have kind of grown out of today.

Nowdays, Boris sitts ontop of the shelf in my room in his original jar. Mum always goes on to me about throwing him out because he stinks, but he is there to stay and he isnt going anywhere.

=First Year of War in Pictures=

Questions


 * 1) Who originally owned this object? Great Grandfather, Raymond Arthur Haberfield ﻿when and where he was born which will include dates and places. It could even include his parents names and any significant or interesting history about where they came from or what they did for a living etc.
 * 2) Has the object belonged to different people? If so, who? This book was handed down to my Nan, Carmel Ann Douglas, when her father died and then handed down to me when I showed interest in it. ﻿I find 20th Century Military Conflict particularly interesting and this is why showed an interest in the book.
 * 3) With which country is this object connected? Australia. The book was printed in Melbourne and my Great Grandfather purchased it on the 1st of June 1941, but I am unsure of where he actually bought the book. The content of the book contains every single major event taken place in the first year of war during WW2 and how it helped shape the conflict. I found reading about the evacuation at Dunkirk of particular interest and how it was carried out with reasonable succsess.
 * 4) If from overseas, how did this object travel to Australia? No.
 * 5) Who has kept it? Great Grandfather, Nan and myself.
 * 6) Where has this object been kept? Where was it found? This object was found in a cupboard in my Nan’s bedroom with other books that belonged to her fathers. My Nan was having a clean out one day and found a collection of her fathers books. Is now kept in a bookshelf in my room, along with the others. My Nan and Pop live in Warrnambool and have lived in the same house their whole marriage. My Nan was born and grew up in Warrnambool with Parents Raymond and How has this object been used? It is an informative book so it has been used to inform the reader about the first year of WW2.
 * 7) Has it been used in different ways over time? No.
 * 8) Has this object meant different things to different people, over time? Explain. This object would have been of significance to my Great Grandfather because he served as a cook in Papua New Guinea on the Kokoda Trail, and had an interest that sort of thing. Kokoda is situated around the middle of the Kokoda Trail, between Port Moresby and Gona, in Papua New Guinne. The battle fough here was important to Australians because there would have been an even greater threat of a Japanese invasion of Australia, if the Japanese had occupied the key strategic port of Port Moresby. The brave determination of our fighting men made thi impossible for the Japanese and therefore protected Australia. The book wasn’t of particular interest to Nan but she kept it because of it being a family air loom and would have felt guilty if she had thrown it out. It is of significance to me because I have an Interest in the information it holds and it holds a special link between my Great Grandfather and myself.
 * 9) Has this objects been looked after? If so how? Yes it has been looked after but you can tell it has been used and has become a big tattered. It took good care of the book when I was reading it because I was scared that the cover would fall off.
 * 10) Is the object very precious to anyone? Who? Why? I value the book highly because I find the text interesting. So therefore you could say that this book is precious to me. I also value the book because My Great Grandfather and I shared some of the same interests.
 * 11) How has the object changed over time? The spine of the book is starting to wear and the leather on the cover is begining to crack.
 * 12) What stories can be told about this object? A blow by blow account of the major events taken place in the first year of WW2 on both sides of the conflict. My Great Garndfather married and lived in Warrnambool. My great Grandparents raised their only child, Carmel, who is my Grandmother, in Warrnambool and my Nan had a care-free childhood. My Nan married a man called Brian Douglas, who was from a family located in Illowa, just outside Warrnambool. They raised my mother, Cheryl and aunt and uncle, Jacinta and Craig in the family home that they still live in today.