Birthday celebrations in Dural and Beautiful Bowral
October 16th 2020 Seventy seven years ago - on 11 October 1943 - I was born in the Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough; the first child of Katherine (known as Kaye) and Alfred (known as Alf) Shippam. Within eight years three siblings had arrived - Karen in 1946, Stuart in 1947 and Charlotte in 1951.
Over the years - having lived in Sydney since 1966 - I've made many holiday trips back to the UK and various oth
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