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Thursday, March 31, 2005
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NOSTALGIA…Former Andamooka residents Rick Boston and Maya Kelleway took a close look at more than 70 years of local history during the opal town’s Easter celebrations this month. The pair, who now reside in Warooka on the Yorke Peninsula, lived in Andamooka for more than 10 years and still own a home locally. They visit Andamooka at least once a year, usually for the ‘Back to Andamooka’ reunion celebrations each Easter.
ANDAMOOKA…More than 300 former Andamooka residents and visiting tourists celebrated Easter in the outback opal mining town in 2005, the community’s 75th year. Around 200 people attended the annual APOMA Cottages community barbecue on Good Friday, followed by another 70 or so who enjoyed the Reunion Ball on Saturday night. On Sunday the community visited White Dam for the ‘Back to Bill’s’ RFDS fundraiser. For many of the returnees, the weekend was an opportunity to catch up with old friends and peruse through piles of photographs and other nostalgia. In fact, one of the highlights of the weekend was the Andamooka history project started by former local resident and teacher Anne Pitt with documents and photographs dating back to the 1930s. But, few of the visitors flicking through the piles of photographs, certificates and newspaper clippings were aware of just how close the community has come to
losing the collection. In fact, the bulk of the collection was destroyed in one of three fires at the Andamooka Primary School since the early 1990s. Then in 2004 the collection was condemned when the most recent fire raised concerns the collection had been contaminated by asbestos. To save the collection, the Andamooka community applied to the SA Government for an exemption and, after rigorous testing, it was returned to APOMA. Since then, local resident and police officer Nigel Campbell has begun transferring the original documents and photographs to computer. Officer Campbell took on the history project after Ms Pitt’s eyesight began to fail. “There’s some amazing stuff – photographs, wedding certificates and newspaper clippings, books and poems and even videos,” officer Campbell told
The Monitor. “We have a whole lot of information about Minnie Berrington – Andamooka’s first female miner in the 1930s. “She moved to Andamooka from Coober Pedy and ran the post office, she was in the army and a police officer too when there were only 12 or 14 female officers in the whole state. “There’s so much here but we want more.” Officer Campbell, and his fellow history buffs, are calling for former and present Andamooka residents to contribute their own photographs and records to the project. Send your contributions by email – nigel. campbell@police.sa.gov.au - or post them to the Andamooka Primary School. “We want everything to do with Andamooka,” he said. “We are slowly building up a good history of the town for the future – we’ve already got photographs of three and four generations of local families.”
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