RE: Another AETA photo from 1955
  Noel Reed

Thanks Paul for ' Another AETA photo from 1955 ' I will try my memory from
all those years ago and indicate my identification attempts in Italics -
Bold.

I was not in that group at Jack Richardson's Brighton Beach home. I had
visited my grandparent's home at Murrumbeena that evening.

Their old house is still there at 475 Neerim Road. It was the first (now
2nd) house on Down side Down end of Murrumbeena station and adjoined a
council yard (now a station car park). I obtained my railway interests from
watching trains from the roof of a back-yard shed opposite the Murrumbeena
Down Starting (Departure) signal which in the 30s was a somersault type for
DLB to Oakleigh.

Noel Reed in Sydney.

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Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Another AETA photo from 1955

This photo turned up among the copious notes; I believe it was at a
gathering at the Melbourne home of the late Jack Richardson (29 Seymour
Grove Brighton Beach) on the occasion of the 1955 AETA convention to mark
the opening of the Bourke Street tramway.

Note that people are drinking cups of tea! Presumably no coffee or red wine
in those days?

Noel (Reed) and others may be able to assist with the identification of some
of the people; the copious notes suggest (left to right):

Maybe Leon Marshall-Wood [deceased] (dont think so), unknown, maybe David
Keenan [deceased] (not David Keenan). Don Tyler of WA (I think), Ken Craven
(holding tea cup), Jack Richardson (Partially obscured), unknown NSW ?,
unknown (the lad in school uniform), unknown Bob Young NSW [deceased],
Ronald E Murray (holding tea cup) [deceased], unknown (partially obscured),
Keith Kings, unknown (partially obscured), unknown (hands in pocket) Ken W
Miller NSW [deceased], Ian Brady, unknown (partially obscured [wearing
spectacles]), unknown (with the moustache) Ben Parle NSW [deceased],
unknown. Ron Jackson NSW [deceased]

The gentleman with the moustache (second from the right) appears in several
of the group photos from the era. Who is/was he? Ben Parle.

Sadly, many of the people are no longer with us.

I wonder if other TDU readers, like me, get as much enjoyment out of the old
(tramway) "people" shots as picture of the trams themselves?

Paul in Melbourne

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