This Is My Life in Hallam, Victoria, Australia | Broadcasting & media production company

This Is My Life

Locality: Hallam, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 8786 1919

Address: 6/21-22 National Dr 3803 Hallam, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.thisismylife.com.au

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24.01.2022 I came across this magnificent film on YouTube that is narrated by the filmmaker and is a great record leadingnup to DDay The quality is great too. https://youtu.be/8dXDl60fLdo

24.01.2022 How well do you know Melbourne?

23.01.2022 Great bit of history!

22.01.2022 On this day with pay tribute to all those who served to protect us. https://youtu.be/_moP0lr2s1w

20.01.2022 LENNIE AND GINGER MICK It’s 1932 and Australia is in the grip of the Great Depression. One in three workers are unemployed. Decrepit shanty towns hug the outskirts of the big cities. A scrawny rabbit caught in a trap will feed a family for a week. Country roads are filled with broken men walking from one farmhouse to another seeking menial jobs and food. On the outskirts of the South Gippsland town of Leongatha, an injured farmer lies in bed unable to walk or work. World Wa...Continue reading

20.01.2022 Americas oldest living veteran, this was filmed in 2017 he was 109 He sadly passed away in Dec 2018 almost making it to 111. At least his story was captured and will live forever. https://youtu.be/BXyfCGDnuWs

18.01.2022 #OnThisDay 1972: Pharmacist John Newstead invited Nationwide into his antique Chemist's shop, where he prepared pills, cachets and potions. He also had a tonsil guillotine - no anesthetic required...

16.01.2022 https://youtu.be/jFtj4AiQuuo https://youtu.be/jFtj4AiQuuo

15.01.2022 "We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing" Extracts from former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill's speech, announcing the end of the war in Europe in 1945, have been broadcast again to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day. bbc.in/2L84u5E

13.01.2022 Ice cream anyone, who remembers Mr Whippy?

13.01.2022 A little bit of PRE-COVID Nostalgia

12.01.2022 These Teens think 95 is prehistoric Only 25 years ago, but we have certainly progressed.

12.01.2022 Views of Ballarat, Travelling in time.

10.01.2022 This brings back memories. What do you miss?

10.01.2022 Do you remember when this was hi-tech?

09.01.2022 , , During WW1 a young boy’s father, a French soldier, was killed when allied troops ret...reated from the Germans at Mons in 1914. Later his mother died when the family home was shelled near Lille. Homeless and no more than five years old, the boy attached himself to several British Army units before being adopted as a mascot by No. 4 Squadron of the Australian Flying Corps. The boy walked into the airmen's mess on Christmas Day, 1918, shortly after peace was declared. Squadron members called him Young Digger. Brothers, Tim and Ted Tovell, in particular, took care of him. They "borrowed" a couple of army greatcoats and had a uniform made for the new recruit. Nobody had been able to establish the boy's family name, although it was believed his Christian name was Honore. In any case, he became known as Henri Tovell. The Tovells lived at Jandowae, on the Darling Downs. Tim and his wife, Gertie, had a daughter, Nancy, and a son, Timmy. Tim wrote to Gertie on January 31, 1919, saying that unless he could find Digger's family he would bring him home. "One more in the family won't matter," he wrote. A kitbag was not big enough, so Tim and Ted fitted the boy into an oatsack for the journey to Le Havre and Southampton. For the journey to Australia on the Kaisar-i-Hind, the Tovells put Henri in a wicker basket marked "Sporting Goods". Tom Ryan, the Queensland premier who was on board, discovered him off the Australian coast and asked immigration authorities to let him stay in Australia. Henri was raised by the Tovells, became an apprentice fitter and turner with the RAAF in Victoria, but died in a road crash in 1928. He was probably about 18 years old. He had written in his citizenship application that he considered Christmas Day, the day he was adopted by Australians, as his birthday. Source: Australian War Memorial and adapted from Kidnapped to Australia with love, The Age, 31/8/2002.

09.01.2022 If anyone needs a reminder of why Covid 19 restrictions are still in place.

08.01.2022 Remember all those different tapes and ways of recording moments?

05.01.2022 Not that long ago! How many do you recall?

05.01.2022 Clever Australians!

05.01.2022 Can you imagine?

04.01.2022 Something Different.

01.01.2022 Who remembers these.

01.01.2022 Fact or fiction?