Bev was my 60th Golden Age session I have completed! can you believe that.
She is one super cool lady, she loves bling & has asked her family to decorate her casket in that style when her time comes.
Beverley Hadfield 28/9/1938 Born at her home in Kurri Kurri NSW
She had 3 sisters & 1 brother
Dad was a bricklayer. & her mum worked at hospital doing domestic duties.
They lived in a modest weatherboard house, & recalled that her Mum liked nice things, so the house was well decorated.
When they moved to Weston they had an outdoor toilet. Bev used to cut up Newspaper in squares to be used as toilet paper. It hung in the outhouse from string.
Bev enjoyed drawing figures with dresses. swimming & diving. She also played the Button accordion. Bev saved a girl from drowning in the pool when she was 10 years old.
Left Kurri Kurri school at age 14.
Her first job was sewing for a factory in Maitland. Then she tok a job at Weston working at a photography studio and learnt develop and print and hand paint the photos. She used tubes of oil paint. & a stick and cotton wool to apply the colour to the black & white images. She recalled that she had to use three different colours for faces to create light & shade & a more realistic finish. She remembered when developing some prints in the dark room one day, seeing a naked man appear on the photo paper in front of her in a mirror selfie. Bev was horrified as she had never seen a naked man before & recognised the gentleman in the photo.
In 1954 Bev met her future Husband Brian when he came in to buy photographic materials. After a few times visiting, she was on her way home, Brian asked if I would like a lift home on his bike. I said yes so, he gave me a lift every day after that Bev was 16 at the time.
About twelve months later we became engaged.
Twelve months later they got married, at Kurri Kurri Bev was 18.
In the wedding pic attached she said she had to hand colour the whole dress green, then use a tiny cotton swab to take the colour off each daisy on the dress.
She also hand coloured the image of her two children together.
Twelve months after they had their first baby Paul, and two years after that second baby Joanne arrived.
We had a lot of motels and caravan trips for holidays around Australia over the years. Brian was 79 when he passed away, It was 10 years ago an incredibly sad time. They had been together 58 years.
Bev was diagnosed with fluid on the brain, 5 years ago. She had a shunt put in her brain.
Bev decided to attend Kurri Kurri Tafe to keep her brain active doing a computer class. She is in her fourth year, and the oldest person in the class, at 85 years old.
Bev has 7 grandchildren , 13 great grandkids.
