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Alice talks again about her time at the Kate Cocks Babies Home and her abiding respect for Kate Cocks herself - a pioneer, friend and saviour to many unmarried and single mothers in the 1940's and 1950's in Adelaide. Alice reads from an article she wrote back in 1998. In the...

Alice talks about being 18 and all that........  

Alice remembers her first pay and her first job and her first pay packet.

Alice Domagalski recalls her first job.

Alice talks about her time at the Kate Cocks Babies Home in Adelaide where she worked as a Nurses aid. For Alice this was a major life experience.

Living in the country one had to make one's own entertainment. In this episode ALice talks about how writing became more than a hobby to her.

Alice grew up n Laura South Australia during the 1930's & 40s. In theis story Alice talks about what she did after school because children in those days usually had tasks to do other than homework. This photo shows Alice with her parents in 1936.

Family meals in the 1930's and 1940's were a lot different than today. Alice talks about her memories of family meals way back then.

Alice recalls lessons at primary school and talks about her favourite teachers. The phto shows Alice's siblings who also attended the same school.

Alice recalls travelling to and from school when she lived in Laura, South Australia. Alice attended the Laura Primary from around 1937 onwards.

Alice talks about life at Laura Primary School, South Australia in the 1930's.  

Alice talks about her relationship with her stepfather

Alice talks about her early schooldays in Laura, South Australia.  

My favourite room as told by Alice Domagalski to the Campbelltown Library Story Circle.  

My name is Alice Domagalski. I lived most of my married life in a place called Edilillie on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. We were not too far from Port Lincoln where my husband Stan and I turned an old blacksmith's shop into a home and a farm over a...