"Welcome stranger"

onebigvoice
onebigvoice Scope Member Posts: 994 Connected
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Having time on my hands I have been watching Gold hunters, where people pan and search for gold.
  Welcome Stranger was the biggest Gold nugget ever found in Australia on the 5th Feb 1869?  Could not work out why this date was in my head.....  I say a copy of the "Welcome Stranger" at the Museum in Sydney when I lived there and actually went to Summer hill Creek to do a bit of panning when I was about 14.
  Around that time our family used to do things on the week end and even went to Lighting Ridge looking for opals.  Me and my brother found some splinters of opals and I still have them in the same match box we put them in over 60 years ago.  I think these were the times that started me off as a collector.
  Do you still have something from your youth that still brings back great memories?

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  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,863 Championing
    That's amazing! 

    I have a few little knick-knacks from my childhood that brings back family memories but I've always loved photography so have many pictures :) 
  • onebigvoice
    onebigvoice Scope Member Posts: 994 Connected
    Alas when my father was having a new boiler and tank in the attic on his farm in Carmarthen, they had a big leak over some of the boxes of family photos and letters, so we lost most of the pictures of when I was young.    
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,863 Championing
    Oh I'm so sorry, have you got extended family or friends that have any from get togethers? 
  • SueHeath
    SueHeath Online Community Member Posts: 12,388 Championing
    My Hubby is a big fan of the TV programs Gold and Opal hunters @onebigvoice

    Many moons ago my Mom had a chunk of coal, when we were children the coal came out every New Years eve and one of us had to go outside at 12 midnight and throw it through the door. It was a luck thing apparently. As time went by and Mom looked after our lads when we went out partying on new years eve, she used to get one of my boys to do the same with the coal.
    When Mom died i found the coal, still in the old cardboard box, the inside full of coal dust, but i wrapped it in tissue paper, cellotaped the box all round to help stop it rotting.
    My youngest son wanted the coal as a keep sake from his Nan, he is in his 30's now and still has the coal.
    Shame it wasn't a chunk of gold tho ha ha x

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