This week for Stories on Sundays, is a tale of Love from my romantic, hopelessly sentimental, nan.
An extract from Annie Hinshelwood's Autobiography...
Mrs Driscoll & Flo her daughter lived at the top of the street in a terrace house. Mrs Driscoll was a great friend of my mother. Flo & her fiance were friends with the Hinshelwoods from Rozelle. They all belonged to the Mrs Stelzer's 2GB Radio Happiness Club. A friend's sister asked me if I wanted to join up. I was nineteen at the time. We went & that is where I met Fred Hinshelwood. One day he asked me if I was going to the mid winter excursion. We danced & had a cup of tea & a sweet biscuit. Later he helped me onto the tram & came & sat down next to me. He asked if I was going to go to the Happiness Club Ball? Yes. 'Do you mind if I come down & pick you up?' & that was the start of the big, big romance.
Frederick Hinshelwood
Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia ~ 1938
