The Depression had a devastating impact on Kandos property. At the second mortgagee sale in 1934 seven “fine” Kandos properties sold for a total of £135 (one property worth an estimated £800).
Tag: Social Life
Thrills and Throbs at Kandos Picture Show
On 15 July 1933 Kandos Talkies would treat you to a double-bill, Beauty and the Boss, a “radiant romance, spicy and snappy – She had ‘IT’ but she hid it”; and “a sparkling satire Once in a Lifetime which reveals what goes on in the private offices of Hollywood film studios”!
A Woman in History
That was Meg’s secret, like many women at that time. Keeping it secret enabled her to gain employment and a husband.
Devotion to Motherhood
Some cultural celebrations have an obscure origin. Not Mother’s Day. Its founding is indisputable.
A Coded Letter
One of the things I love about old letters is the language that plants them in the past. Things like "the blinking b battery", "thingamajig", "going goodo", "oh gee", "a fair cow", "cheerio", "the old mob".
Charbon Township – Vision and Reality
Overwhelmingly I felt a sense of sadness for a once-thriving village.
No Water, No Life
The "Wishing Well" piques childhood enchantment but perhaps I was always too focused on the present or future to stroll down a leaf-littered path into the past.
A Founding Mother
This is the story of a gutsy, red-headed, seventeen-year-old, Sarah Bellamy
A Notable Building in a Rare 20th Century Town – Kandos
What could be more mood-altering than a dance hall that suggested a glittering French palace.
How a church was built at Lue in 1934
In 1934 Lue had a pub, school, railway station, baker, butcher, one church, another store and fewer than twenty scattered houses.
Kandos. A Thoroughbred.
Kandos. A name to celebrate a new town, a new industry and hopefully a champion racehorse.
Kandos History 