THE EARLY YEARS

Other Things May Change Us, But We Start And End With The Family
- Anthony Brandt
Family Life
Paternal Grandparents

Grandmother
Mary Stewart

Grandmother Mary Stewart
Mary Jane and George Stewart
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My parents both grew up in the Sydney suburb of Annandale, Dad in Annandale Street and Mum in Johnston Street.
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They married in 1946, and the Sydney suburb of West Ryde became their home and the suburb in which I and my brothers were raised.
Parents

Father Ken and Mother Beth
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Maternal Grandparents


Louisa and Reginald Charles Harivel

A Teenage Beth with Louisa and Reginald.
Granfather was a 'Grand United Order of Oddfellows' Grand Master.

A young Beth Harivel outside 251B Johnston St Annandale

Beth Stewart - a Pink Lady at Ryde Hospital

Mum on her 90th Birthday










