Wyandra 1925 - A Hotel & Hairdressing, and Fishing Trips
Bernadine Monica Grant married Alexander William [Sonny] Frazer in Wyandra on 21st march 1921. These photos have all been scanned are from an album that belonged to her. Thomas Henry Grant is in the middle photo and Margaret Jane Grant (nee Doyle) is seated on the rear of the car in the next photo. The children in the car would be Bernadine’s sons, ‘Lex’ and Tom. The driver for the family fishing trip in “old jigger” is Bernie’s brother Thomas Douglas Grant, (always called “Doug”).
The street images are of the store and “motor garage” that was diagonally opposite the Commercial Hotel on the intersection of Mack St and Warrego St. The Wyandra War Memorial that is shown below was erected in 1921.
…”If you were travelling, you’d tie the water bag to the front of your bumper bar, full of water, and the evaporative effect of the air running over the canvas would cool down the water inside. You wouldn’t put in inside the car because it would drip. They didn’t lose much water, but they did become wet on the outside - that was the idea.”
The Water Bag by Geoff Dale https://open.abc.net.au/explore/78471
In 1925 Thomas and Margaret Grant ran the Commercial Hotel in Wyandra. Their son ‘Doug’ worked as a barman. Thomas was working again as a hairdresser. Their daughter Bernadine, now married to Alexander “Sonny” Frazer, had 2 children and was living in Wyandra. Sonny’s own family was also living in Wyandra at this time.
Grant
- 1. GRANT - A ‘Mud Map’ history of the Grant branch.
- 2. GRANT nee DOYLE - Ireland to Ipswich
- 3. GRANT nee DOYLE - Working on the railway and farming at Walloon.
- 4. GRANT nee DOYLE - Family photos in Ipswich and Rockhampton.
- 5. GRANT/DOYLE - Cunnamulla 1903 - Hairdressing and raising a family.
- 6. GRANT/FRAZER - Wyandra 1923 - The Commercial Hotel
- 7. GRANT - Wyandra 1925 - A Hotel & Hairdressing, and Fishing Trips
- 8. GRANT - Cunnamulla 1927 - A Butcher shop in a drought.
- 9. GRANT - Brisbane - West End: Hardgrave Rd., Boundary St., and Blakeney St.
- 10. GRANT - Toowong Cemetery
- 11. GRANT - New South Wales - 1861 Binnalong and Harden-Murrumburrah
- 12. GRANT/HOLT - Tasmania - Bagdad 1832 - William Holt and Mary Ann Holt (nee Peters)
- 13. GRANT/HOLT/PETERS - Hobart 1810 - Mary Ann Holt daughter of Thomas & Mary Ann Peters
- 14. GRANT/HOLT/PETERS - You get to choose!
- 15. GRANT/HOLT - William Holt of Bagdad Tasmania
- 16. GRANT/HOLT - William Holt of Castlemaine Victoria
- 17. GRANT/HOLT - A new name and a new life.
- 18. GRANT/GORMAN - Great-great grandma Ellen Bridget Gorman
- 19. GORMAN - Dublin to the Dapto District
- 20. GRANT - The Children of Frederick and Ellen Grant
- 21. GRANT - Where the atmosphere is great.
- 22. GRANT/HOLT Summary - Thomas Peters & Mary Ann Hews to Bernadine Monica Grant
- 23. Grant - Doyle - Holt - Gorman - Saunders - Peters - Hews - The case is never closed.