A lot of the people I met today live or work in Tatura! It’s bigger than I thought. There are some fun town names to the north west like Wycheproof or Teddywaddy West.
Oh sweet! Yeah it’s a cute little town. The local museum has a lot of like WWII stuff donated from my family, because my grandpa couldn’t go to war, so he sang apart of his church choir at a lot of the POW camps. And so a lot of the Germans gave him like coins and stuff. So it’s very cool from a historical standpoint, but a lot of is like… Nazi shit, so while a cool piece of history, it’s something that I don’t want in my house once my grandma kicks the bucket.
Oof. Yeah, those were different times indeed. Probably several other museums that might take some of that stuff. Fascinating history though, thank you for sharing! All I really knew about Tatura until now was the butter
Oh yeah, Tatura and like Murchison had a bunch of POW camps that are still pretty accessible (though it’s not like what it was back then, it’s just a plot of land but there are markings of things). I found out a few years ago that a friend of mine, her grandpa was a POW and was in one of the Murchison camps, and so it’s probably likely that my grandpa was singing songs at the same time he was there. So it’s pretty interesting how that works out.
Whenever someone would go out to a pub with my grandpa, and you’d get given the Tatura butter, my grandpa would lean over and go “that’s Tatura butter”. I’ve now started to do it as just a joke. Man, he was something else I tell ya.
A lot of the people I met today live or work in Tatura! It’s bigger than I thought. There are some fun town names to the north west like Wycheproof or Teddywaddy West.
Oh sweet! Yeah it’s a cute little town. The local museum has a lot of like WWII stuff donated from my family, because my grandpa couldn’t go to war, so he sang apart of his church choir at a lot of the POW camps. And so a lot of the Germans gave him like coins and stuff. So it’s very cool from a historical standpoint, but a lot of is like… Nazi shit, so while a cool piece of history, it’s something that I don’t want in my house once my grandma kicks the bucket.
Oof. Yeah, those were different times indeed. Probably several other museums that might take some of that stuff. Fascinating history though, thank you for sharing! All I really knew about Tatura until now was the butter
Oh yeah, Tatura and like Murchison had a bunch of POW camps that are still pretty accessible (though it’s not like what it was back then, it’s just a plot of land but there are markings of things). I found out a few years ago that a friend of mine, her grandpa was a POW and was in one of the Murchison camps, and so it’s probably likely that my grandpa was singing songs at the same time he was there. So it’s pretty interesting how that works out.
Whenever someone would go out to a pub with my grandpa, and you’d get given the Tatura butter, my grandpa would lean over and go “that’s Tatura butter”. I’ve now started to do it as just a joke. Man, he was something else I tell ya.