People/coralbrowne/visit1948.html
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Visit to Australia 1948
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Story in Trans-Air, the TAA [Trans-Australia Airlines] newsletter, vol. 1 no. 10, May 1948 about Coral Browne's arrival in Melbourne
The photo also shows Coral's mother, Victoria (Vicky) Brown [sic] (nee Bennett), and her grandmother, Edith Bennett - Victoria's mother.
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Story in unidentified (Melbourne?) paper about Coral Browne's visit home
The photo also shows Coral's mother, Victoria (Vicky) Brown [sic] (nee Bennett).
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Pictures of Coral Browne in The Australasian POST, 15 April 1948 in Melbourne
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Story in Melbourne paper about Coral Browne's visit home
The last sentence is missing from the scan. It reads: "And she didn't need urging."
The note in her mother's handwriting around the story is not completely decipherable. It reads: "Photo taken for mail [Mail? a newspaper?] before she went to London the first time. its a custard tart Tean [Teen, Christina Bennett Robertson, her aunt, my grandmother] she wanted. she used to write in her letters from London about it 6 eggs & a pint of milk 4 [indecipherable] of custard made her them & she [indecipherable] it X"
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 2 August, 2006 and hosted at freotopia.org/people/coralbrowne/visit1948.html (it was last updated on 29 March, 2021). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.