Mum very much wanted me to go into kindergartern. So on Mondays on the back of dad’s motorbike down to the river, the ferry didn’t leave until 8, but dad needed to get to his shift by 7:45, so on a rowing boat across the river to the canteen lady at the zinc works.
Emma Coffee, Born London, migrated to Aus 1920-1922, worked at the Woolwich arsenal during the First War, then worked in the paper shop, her father (James, not certain), was a baker.
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