Memories

 Here is a layout I have created today for a Tic Tac Toe challenge over at Soul Scrappers Challenges

The challenge board - I choose twine, black and white photo and one-word sentiment.

The photo is of our grandfather (Pop) standing beside the Crawford Road street sign.  I estimate the photo was taken in about 1970 or earlier.  Google tells me that Neptune Oil was sold to Shell in 1975.

From Lake Macquarie Library community history an entry records "Crawford Road was named after a local resident in 1930's by R.H.Marshall, the timekeeper of the relief workers road gangs. A locally name road it appears to have been named officially in 1948."

As a family, we know that our grandparents had a dairy and residence in Crawford Road. It provided an essential service during the wars providing milk and food to the good folk of Morriset and Cooranbong before moving to Asquith to run a general store.  It became of right of passage that we would travel to Morriset, often taking our grandparents and having our photos taken in front of whatever iteration of street sign there was and  then travel up the road to see the fence posts created by local timber felled to make the posts.  

I have used black twine and then tied natural twine onto it. The washi tape I thought represented some of ages that we would head up to see the sign!  I have held on to this photo for a long time and this challenge was just the momentum I needed to get it down on paper.

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Margaret

The road still exists and it is probably time to head up and revisit memories of the past. Put that on the list Margaret!