It was 1966 and Muriel had been working at Kings College Hospital Denmark Hill in South London for about a year when Angela announced that she was emigrating to Melbourne in Australia to take a job as a medical secretary in the Urology Unit at the Alfred Hospital. The Australian Government were sponsoring immigrants so Angela went by sea (4 weeks) for 10 pound Sterling!
Within a year she had become engaged to John Clements whom she met at St.George's Presbyterian Church Melbourne. Her
wedding photo is on the right. Angela wanted a Spanish Mantilla style headress which she had made by a dressmaker. Mum
Dorothea found a lovely outfit of peach with coffee lace - she congratulates Angela at left.
Muriel went with her Mum by to Australia by sea on the Greek ship (Chandris Lines)the Ellinis and was a bridesmaid along with John's sister Roberta at their wedding.
Muriel stayed in Australia for a year working at the Veterans Repatriation Hospital Heidelberg in Melbourne and at the Royal Brisbane Hospital in Queensland. She also worked as a typist at a factory in Melbourne for a month when there was no work for an Occupational Therapist(OT)!
Muriel returned to the UK after a year and Dorothea returned after 2 years. Muriel reconnected with her OT friends Jane (seen her with husband Mike and their first child Catherine) who lived in Twickenham and would go and stay with them when time permitted.
Paddy remained (and still does) a very dear friend and this picture was taken in Devon when they returned to check out their old stomping ground) sometime after 1967.
The next post will follow Muriel to Canada in 1970 and will catch up with Angela who leads a peripetatic life living in a total of 14 cities in Australia with her two children Natalie and Stuart.
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