About Me  I was born on 30th October 1936, the only daughter of an English dairy farmer . . . a very spoilt child. My parents were both born in 1904 and as with most people of this era, furniture was second hand, but, second hand to them meant that their furniture was Victorian or Edwardian. Therefore, I learnt by association, the “periods” of furniture, so to speak.
Educated through the public system I was then trained as a nurse at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, in Brighton on the South Coast of England. This was followed by Accident and Emergency training at the same hospital, Midwifery in the dock areas of London and Theatre Sister at Mayday Hospital in Croydon. With all this knowledge I thought I would be able to work with the Flying Doctor, but life panned out differently and after 6 weeks in Australia I had a fall from a horse and spent 2 months in the Royal Brisbane Hospital as a patient. On recovery I went to Rockhampton Base Hospital from where I met my husband. | 
| In December 1961, we drew a land ballot of 5000 acres of brigalow scrub country south-west of Rockhampton, onto which we moved. It had no house, so we camped at first. I cooked my first Christmas dinner on a camp fire. Our boundary fence needed to be built quickly and extended some 11 miles long. Over the next 8 years I produced 5 children and we developed the brigalow into a cattle station. Schooling for the children was by correspondence at first, but, eventually we had a school bus to Thangool. Drought was bad back then too and in the early 1970s I returned to full time nursing to keep the place afloat.  Eventually my husband became a cardiac invalid and we sold to retire to Bribie Island. He passed on and I moved to Redcliffe working at the Redcliffe hospital. I bought a house, met a second hand dealer, turned him into an Antique dealer, went to England and bought our first container of Antiques. In 1985 I bought ALRO’S ANTIQUES at 14 Woodcliffe Crescent, Woody Point which I operated till February 2007. |
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