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We lived in the gardens

Marg O'Connor (nee Dorian) with Benny Hose in the FJ gardens where she lived as a child in one of the three staff houses. Photo: Marg O'Connor

A belt in the ear!

Wally Ferguson, second from left in the back row, with the FJ outdoor staff in 1968. The factory was self sufficient and had it's own tradesman - plumbers, electricians, carpenters, mechanics. Photo:Photo shared by Richard Koosje Herlihy

The same truck

The FJ rubbish truck that Gary learnt to drive in. That's Gary as a young fella in the photo. Date unknown. Photo: Gary Kelly

A deeply humane figure

FJ's Pleasant Hill Warrnambool (late 1960s) - (left to right) my father, Chic Phillips, Neil Symons and Horace Verey. Photo: Richard Phillips

A dog for a coat

Rena Jones with FJ staff travelling with Digger the dog- not a red retriever so not the dog of this story! Photo: Jones Family Collection

Jack Caple

I've still got the book I got as a kid!

Claire Jennings (nee Gleeson) with the book she received as a kid at one of the FJ Christmas Parties in the FJ gardens. Claire is speaking at a present day Community Christmas Party in the FJ gardens where kids also received a book present from Santa. We love this connecting of past and present that has happened with the Save the Silver Ball and Fletcher's Gardens campaign. Photo: Bluestone Magazine

The quality goes on

Katerina Rubbo modelling her FJ suit happily just purchased from an opportunity shop. Photo: Mike Rubbo

Another chewy story!

Is Valerie there with head down on the sewing floor of FJs? Photo: Jones Family Collection

I think of my time there and smile!

Skirt Sewing Room at FJs in 1965. Photo: Jones Family Collection

When the whistle went

Workers leaving the Pleasant Hill factory at the end of the day in 1978. Photo: Jones Family Collection.

I met my hubby

One of the many couples who met at Fletcher Jones. Lynette and Doug Davis on their wedding day. Photo: Lynette Davis

We got engaged in the canteen.

Jean and Wally Paton with their wedding photo at one of the FJ Stories morning teas. Photo: The Warrnambool Standard

Aunt Betty's Typewriter

The Chewy Girl

Anne Skepper Van Bakel at the wishing well in the Fletcher Jones Gardens in 2015. She was one of the little girls caught redhanded trying to collect coins from the wishing well in the Fletcher Jones gardens in the early 1970s. Photo:Bluestone Magazine.

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