Last week I read 'The Abbey Girls at Home' (abgd.) mostly to help out with a quiz at the NSW club meeting yesterday. I enjoyed the story generally but wondered...
Mrs Shirley's name is given as Margaret in The Abbey Girls Win Through - Joy's Margaret is named after her (Elizabeth is named after Andrew's mother, the first...
Mrs Shirley's christian name was Margaret. When the twins are born in "Abbey Girls Win Through" Joy says they will be called" Elizabeth " for Andrew's mother...
Thanks, Sandy and Helen. Any guesses on Mrs Margaret (including to remind me from now on) Shirley's date (decade?) of birth would be appreciated. I thought ...
In the Abbey Chronicle Time Line it puts Joan's birth year as 1899 or 1900
so quite likely Mrs Margaret Shirley was between 20 and 25 years of age when
she...
" Mrs Shirley is always described as "little , frail , retiring" etc so maybe she was an older first time mother???? Its hard to know." I wonder if she was no...
If you come across a CB&M page with a Story Paper Index link, please check to see if it takes you there - http://www.philsp.com/homeville/BJSP/0start.htm If it...
Hi John May I ask why you made this comment? Did you know there are tools to help you find wrong links? Let me know, so if I can help, I will Norman ... From:...
Here's a newly discovered website that might be of interest. Some of recommended sites may already be known to people here, but it would be interesting to get...
In a message dated 27/06/08 4:31:21 AUS Eastern Standard Time, normanghast@... writes: << May I ask why you made this comment? Did you know there are...
From Whirligig Sooty changes hands Sooty, the silent puppet bear with a penchant for magic tricks and water pistols, has been sold to his presenter, who plans...
The lady who wants this book is offlist so please contact her direct if you can help - John ... JINDI THE PICCANINNY FAIRY Created / illustrated by Bernard...
CB&M editorial ramble For anyone in Oz interested in School Friend weeklies, I've listed lots of 7 and 11 from the 1960s on eBay Aust. Not many of these...
As we've had some new members lately, it's worth mentioning that we still have well over 400 members but the group has seen little use this year. So if you...
... this ... our ... Hi John, This is an old member calling in after a period of silence. I am still busily engaged in helping to bring my book to its...
Dear John I would like to have more information about the Pocomoto books and other books by Rex Dixon. Frank O'Reilly ======================================== ...
I'm trying to track down a Girl Guide story which involved the heroine taking part in an air race. She ran into someone in trouble and, being a good Guide,...
... heroine ... being ... Hi Wendy, I don't know the answer but my main suspect would be 'Eileen Heming' perhaps under that name or one of her aliases. She is...
... and ... Hi John and Frank, I have no more biographical information on the author but I have been collecting works by Rex Dixon and Robert Martin (same...
Hello John and others I've decided to put another query, as I see from other emails that members are asking for titles, authors etc of books that they remember...
... members are asking for titles, authors etc of books that they remember only vaguely. Well, I have such a book that I read in the 1950s. It was actually my...
Jim Thanks for your very prompt reply. The Catherall book is certainly the book I remember. I recall those descriptions of the Mongoloid Lapps with high cheek...
Just looked at Abebooks and they have 11 copies of 'Phantom Patrol' listed - some in the UK, fewer in Australia and New Zealand and one in the USA. Just...
G'day, Jim. Good to know the book is still coming along and yes, things have been quiet, as we've just had a two week school break here in Oz as well. In fact...
In a message dated 23/07/08 10:04:52 AUS Eastern Standard Time, jmackenzie48@... writes: << I have no more biographical information on the author but...
I'm newish, and have nothing but helpful comments here When I star5ed collecting Girl Guide stories (in England), a fair few years ago, I found lots of them in...
Hi Jim, Nostalglic to see the foot-plate of a loco again. I can remember reading a number of schoolboy stories in which a locomotive was discovered hidden away...
