Show time
At Glen Oak after the Lockhart Show (1980 possibly).
Here we see a modest repast being taken after another (presumably successful) day at the Lockhart Show, which has always been very much a family do. I am only sorry that I don't have a photograph of one of my great aunt Daisy's homemade-butter sculptures. (Is that clear? Both the butter and the sculptures were homemade). They were always the piece de resistance of the show, topping such treats as the merry-go-round, the camel rides, the show bags and the sweet peas in the floral section. In 1981 ( and I think I have this right) the sculpture was of the royal wedding carriage and horses. It was truly a marvel. Some wag did suggest that it would have been easier to sculpt Ho Chi Minh in his coffin.
The Lockhart Show was very much an Alexander affair. They were variously the Show President, the committee, the judges and the competitors, as well as enthusiastic participants at all the sideshows. They also had a wonderful picnic lunch with lashings of everything including my favourite indigestible hard-boiled eggs. The usually chilly September wind did little to detract from the delights. I'm sorry to report that I haven't been to the show for over 30 years.
On the other side of the clan I find that my great-grandfather William Barwick (the one who met Ned Kelly) was, along with one John Heckendorf, an original office bearer of the inaugural Lockhart Show. It's what you do in the bush.
(Lockhart, 'the Verandah town', is the place of my birth one autumn day sometime in the 20th Century.)
The Lockhart Show was very much an Alexander affair. They were variously the Show President, the committee, the judges and the competitors, as well as enthusiastic participants at all the sideshows. They also had a wonderful picnic lunch with lashings of everything including my favourite indigestible hard-boiled eggs. The usually chilly September wind did little to detract from the delights. I'm sorry to report that I haven't been to the show for over 30 years.
On the other side of the clan I find that my great-grandfather William Barwick (the one who met Ned Kelly) was, along with one John Heckendorf, an original office bearer of the inaugural Lockhart Show. It's what you do in the bush.
(Lockhart, 'the Verandah town', is the place of my birth one autumn day sometime in the 20th Century.)
The Lockhart Papers
These are something entirely different. Something to do with Scotland. I'm looking in to it.
( http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Lockhart_papers.html?id=OFsJAAAAIAAJ )
( http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Lockhart_papers.html?id=OFsJAAAAIAAJ )