Kambah Home Invasion

Ah. I used to hang out with your brother after school sometimes! Small world.

BerraBoy68 said :

did you live just past the little shop at the top of on Tillyard Dr?

Yep, that was us.

I could be wrong, but did you live just past the little shop at the top of on Tillyard Dr?

BerraBoy68 said :

Yep, I would have been in the same class before heading off to yr 7 at Marist. Any idea who his teacher was in Yr 6? I had Ms Morris (previously known as Ms Chin). Or can you give me any other names?

He only went to Year 4 at St Thomas, and then started in Year 5 at Daramalan – not sure who his teachers were, because I didn’t start there until just after he left. I don’t know if he’d want me mentioning his name…. but our mother worked there as a secretary at the time, and our surname is the same as a well-known Australian river, if that gives you any clues.

dorkus mallorkus said :

BerraBoy68 said :

Sounds like you would have been in the same year as my brother – he was in 4th Grade at St Thomas in ’77 and then moved to Daramalan.

Yep, I would have been in the same class before heading off to yr 7 at Marist. Any idea who his teacher was in Yr 6? I had Ms Morris (previously known as Ms Chin). Or can you give me any other names?

BerraBoy68 said :

Dorkus – in what year did you leave St Thomas? I left 6th grade there in ’79!

I left after 1st Grade, at the end of ’79. Sounds like you would have been in the same year as my brother – he was in 4th Grade at St Thomas in ’77 and then moved to Daramalan.

dorkus mallorkus said :

I’m another Charnwood to Kambah refugee (St Thomas Aquinas 1978-79,

Dorkus – in what year did you leave St Thomas? I left 6th grade there in ’79!

nik73 said :

Ah, yep, chances I would have met you then. Did you know the Belco Youth Centre crowd?

yeah – worked for a while for youth insearch at belco youth centre. still keep in contact with a few mates from there.

Ah, yep, chances I would have met you then. Did you know the Belco Youth Centre crowd?

nik73 said :

peter@home said :

the penny will drop soon. Fairly sure i know you. but will have to think some more on it…

So much for anonymity! 😉 If it helps the penny to drop, I finished year 10 in 1989, lived in Scullin and went to Ginninderra College briefly in 1990. Left college after about 3 months and got a job instead.

peterh said :

so, did you hang around with the same friends as her, m gilbert being one i remember particularly well. (he went out with her)

I was a part of the group that lived across the oval. mainly saw SFX girls at the mall – we all worked there.

Not a lot. I think she was friends with my brother before me. I don’t really recall any of her other friends. If I still had my year books I’m sure I could pick out some faces, but they all went missing in a house move.

Where in the mall did you work?

V8… sorry to hijack your thread!!

ah, the best job of all….

I was a trolley pusher. sat around in the mall a lot, and collected trolleys when needed.

peter@home said :

the penny will drop soon. Fairly sure i know you. but will have to think some more on it…

So much for anonymity! 😉 If it helps the penny to drop, I finished year 10 in 1989, lived in Scullin and went to Ginninderra College briefly in 1990. Left college after about 3 months and got a job instead.

peterh said :

so, did you hang around with the same friends as her, m gilbert being one i remember particularly well. (he went out with her)

I was a part of the group that lived across the oval. mainly saw SFX girls at the mall – we all worked there.

Not a lot. I think she was friends with my brother before me. I don’t really recall any of her other friends. If I still had my year books I’m sure I could pick out some faces, but they all went missing in a house move.

Where in the mall did you work?

V8… sorry to hijack your thread!!

dorkus mallorkus said :

I’m another Charnwood to Kambah refugee (St Thomas Aquinas 1978-79, for the record). Having spent 23 years in Charnwood and the past four in Kambah, I think the worst thing I’ve seen in either suburb was a bunch of drunk guys outside the Kambah Inn one Saturday afternoon trying to bludge smokes off passersby.

I must have led a sheltered existence, but I’m okay with that.

lucky you. I wish that was the worst I have seen. or experienced first hand.

the worst i have ever seen was a guy thrown into one of the windows at the bin. we grabbed him pretty quickly, but he almost landed his neck on a big jagged edge *shudder*, we bundled him off to the hospital. The cops at the time couldn’t believe how lucky he was…

I’m another Charnwood to Kambah refugee (St Thomas Aquinas 1978-79, for the record). Having spent 23 years in Charnwood and the past four in Kambah, I think the worst thing I’ve seen in either suburb was a bunch of drunk guys outside the Kambah Inn one Saturday afternoon trying to bludge smokes off passersby.

I must have led a sheltered existence, but I’m okay with that.

nik73 said :

Yes, I did know Anne. I haven’t seen her in years! She was a year or two below me, but we were friends.

so, did you hang around with the same friends as her, m gilbert being one i remember particularly well. (he went out with her)

I was a part of the group that lived across the oval. mainly saw SFX girls at the mall – we all worked there.

BerraBoy68 said :

peter@home said :

BerraBoy68 said :

peter@home said :

charny or st thomas?

St Thomas. Although I was there when Charnwood High was still being built!

good lord, you are old!

though, judging by your username, not much older than me….

nik73 said :

Yes, I did know Anne. I haven’t seen her in years! She was a year or two below me, but we were friends.

the penny will drop soon. Fairly sure i know you. but will have to think some more on it…

peter@home said :

BerraBoy68 said :

peter@home said :

charny or st thomas?

St Thomas. Although I was there when Charnwood High was still being built!