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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;faculty527, post: 11434058, member: 97029&quot;]I know this is an old thread:</p><p><br /></p><p>Syd was my great uncle (Sydney Alva was his dad) and did lots of these types of paintings and drawings, mostly around Port Niell.&nbsp; He was a member of the Port Neill Art Group, think he may have been president at one point.&nbsp; He was great fun to be around with an awesome sense of humor.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In his own words:</p><p><br /></p><p>I was born at Tumby Bay Hospital, where old Dr. Wibberley was the doctor at the time. For the first five years of my life we lived at the Carrow Wells home where Grandpa Kemp and family lived before taking over the Port Neill Hotel with Mr Feorge. Grandpa Kemp died at the age of 42. All I can remember of the Carrow home was at three years old getting hooked up on a barb wire fence and Buck Chalmers rescuing me.</p><p><br /></p><p>We moved to our new home on Windy Hill in the centre of the farm where my son David now lives. The solid old house was built of limestone and cost 150 pounds. My sister, Thea, and I walked to school picking up Lorna Harrowfield (Hauber) on the way. The school was on a stony hill overlooking the sea. We were a battered bunch of kids as the playground was solid limestone. Mr. Bracken was my first teacher. The main hobby other than schoolwork was making snotty gobble balls. Chalmers always made the biggest. We also used to collect wings from the harvest beetles.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the farm my main job was to get the cows in to be milked by my mother and cutting mallee stumps for the fire.&nbsp; We looked forward to the movies at the Hall. I can remember being scared of King Kong the gorilla. Being Catholic we went to Mass once a month either at Byrnes place or in the Hall. Dancing after football was another social event. Well, that was my childhood. There was no TV: what did we do then, I don’t know but we had a wonderful time. During our teen years there was quite a mob of young fellows who went around together until some moved away and the rest who stayed, married.</p><p><br /></p><p>I married Marlene Griffin of Lipson and had three children, Christine, David and Angela, all born in Tumby Bay.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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