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Audio

Chrystabel Duell - Port Noarlunga during holiday times (2:22mins)
Lillian Gawley - Opening of Port Noarlunga Institute, Christmas Day (2:37mins)
Morris Hunt - Port Noarlunga during Christmas time (1:44mins)
Jack Sparrow - Christmas and New Years (3:51mins)

Interview Extracts

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Tom Strout of Willunga's recollections of celebrating New Years Day at Port Willunga
Fay Hunt of Maslin Beach's recollections of family picnics and New Years Day
Sam Liddiard of Aldinga's recollections of picnics and New Years Day celebrations on the beach
Fay Hunt of Maslin Beach's recollections of Christmas Day celebrations
Hilda Lush of Willunga's recollections of an aeroplane landing near the school
Hilda Lush of Willunga's recollections of the first train to Willunga

Photographs


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Families picnicking at Port Willunga Jetty on New Year's. No date.

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Laying the foundation stone library, next to the Port Noarlunga Institute in 1929.

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Opening of the Institute Hall at Aldinga on 1 January 1935.

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Special 'children's train' to celebrate the opening of the railway line to Willunga in 1915. Courtesy of the Willunga Branch, National Trust of South Australia.

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Official opening of the pavilion at the Willunga Recreation Ground in 1913. Courtesy of the Willunga Branch, National Trust of South Australia.

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Opening celebrations of the Happy Valley Memorial Hall on 12 November 1955.

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Aeroplane landing at Sellicks Beach in circa 1930.

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Opening ceremony, McLaren Vale Hall and Soldiers Memorial, McLaren Vale, South Australia, 1933. Courtesy of the Willunga Branch, National Trust of South Australia.

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Hackham West's 12th birthday celebrations and the opening of the walking linear park to be known as Golden Wattle on 23 November 1990 at the Hackham West Community Centre.

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Blewitt Springs School official opening ceremony in 1935.

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The Christie family children at Christmas dinner in 1910.

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Group celebrating the laying of the foundation stone at Morphett Vale Baptist Church on Good Friday April 1867.

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Band playing in front of Butterworth's flour mill at Aldinga. No date. Courtesy of the Willunga Branch, National Trust of South Australia.

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Easter camp at Sellicks Beach in 1932. Courtesy of the Willunga Branch, National Trust of South Australia.

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Marquee erected at Moana Beach for the land sales which followed the subdivision of Moana in 1928.