Sunday 23 December 2012

Garages

Garages

Alice Elizabeth Foley Anderson (1897-1926), garage proprietor, was born on 8 June 1897 in Melbourne, third of five children of Irish-born parents Joshua Thomas Noble Anderson (Anderton), engineer, and his wife Ellen Mary, née White-Spunner. Joshua, sometime partner of(Sir) John Monash, was an inept businessman. Alice's childhood was spent in relative poverty in the family's bush house near Narbethong, outside Melbourne. Hers was an unconventional upbringing for a middle-class girl. She wore utilitarian clothing such as bloomers and men's boots, was an excellent horsewoman, became skilled at hunting and fishing and learned to drive and repair charabancs at the local co-operative bus service. After five terms as a day pupil at the Church of England Girls' Grammar School (Merton Hall), Melbourne, she left in 1914, family finances preventing her finishing secondary school or entering university.

Garages

Garages

Garages

Garages

Garages

Garages

Garages

Garages

Garages

1 comment:

  1. These are great looking garages! I have been looking for Garage Kits for my house. Thanks so much for these pictures and designs, they seem to mesh really well with the houses.

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