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ISSUE 120 SUMMER 2014
PUBLICATION OF THE ANGLESEA COMMUNITY HOUSE
Moggs Creek Dynamos By Terrence Hoffmann
Tania was working as a waitress at the Arab in Lorne in the summer of 1957. This was the original Arab where the back portion was a tent where people sat on cushions on the floor. Tania lived in the house provided by the Smith brothers, the Arab’s owners, taking the early shift making sandwiches and serving coffee. Other staff working at the Arab lived there too, as well as the bands that worked at the Wild Colonial Club, such as “Whelan the Wreckers”. Graham was in Lorne on holidays from his studies as an architecture student at RMIT. He was there to surf and check out the girls, not necessarily in that order. It was a meeting that was meant to happen. They met at the Arab, they clicked and too soon the holidays were over, and back in Melbourne, Graham chased his favourite summer girl with that fateful phone call. The rest, as they say, is history. Married in 1961, Graham was still Graham and Tania Teague
Highlights
finishing his architecture studies at night school while Tania worked as a Kindergarten teacher. They saved a small deposit on a house for when they returned and then flew off to work in London in 1964.
Moggs Creek Dynamos
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Anglesea Garden
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Wreck of the Netherby
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Turkey Travels
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Solar Challenge
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London then was the
Jackie Hosking
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centre of world music and
It’s not just for kids
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fashion, a most exciting
Feature on Foodlink
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place to be.
Parker’s Cottage
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Summer Reads
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They both worked in London and travelled all over Europe when they had saved enough money to do so. In London their love of modern jazz music
was fuelled at Ronnie Scotts and other venues. Returning to Melbourne in 1966 they soon purchased their first home in East Hawthorn for the extravagant cost of $12, 500. With Tania working again as a Kindergarten teacher and Graham as an architect they gradually paid off the home loan. In 1968 they started a family when Michael was born, followed a few years later with Julia. Tania returned to work when the children were at school and worked as a Kindergarten Director. Her last appointment before retiring was at a large Kindergarten Childcare Centre (Continued on page 14)
Community Houses are for Everyone
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