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Mattinbgn/ ^talk 20:51, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

• Cheers Mattinbgn :) Hectic18 07:41, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Yagoona, New South Wales

Has been assessed and comments left in the assessment box (click on show). Cheers!--VS ^talk 14:03, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

• Cheers VS. This is the first article I've ever made significant contributions to, really appreciate the input and pointers :-)Hectic18 14:45, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

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Yagoona

Hello Hectic 18,

I read your information on the History of Yagoona and felt you should also know that while the area may have been known as Irish Town in the late 1700's there weren't that many Irish folk living there in the 1950's.

My family first moved to Yagoona in 1954 and there was barely anything there at all. I remember standing at the kitchen window of the two room garage we lived in while our house was being built watching the highway town rising from the dirt. There was about five houses in our area and a dairy farm. The roads were dirt in our section of the town up until around 1956.

Most of the families around Yagoona in the 1950's to the early 1990's were descended from free settlers and a few of the families were descendants of the Landed Gentry of England, Scotland and Wales, mine included.

In the 1950's the small town of Yagoona was more a village of people who all knew each other if not related to one another and there was an influx of even more English migrants that settled there once they left the Villawood Immigration Complex.

During the 1960's motor bike gangs use to roar down the highway and often stop at the hotels in Yagoona enroute to where they were heading. Mr Drury, the local chemist was always replacing his shop window after the bikies left as usually one of them ended up falling through it, if not tossed through it by one of their gang members in a fight.

A number of well known Australian sports stars, musicians and politicians also came from the areas of Bankstown, Yagoona and Bass Hill. Mick Jagger opened the premier of his movie 'Ned Kelly' at the Hoyts Cinema at Bankstown in 1971. He apparently had an aunt that lived in Punchbowl near Bankstown.

Stevie Wright of The Easybeats went to Birrong Boys High School and the rest of the band lived in Yagoona. I use to babysit George's cousins, Malcolm and Angus with a friend some weekends - a lively bunch they were - full of energy. I often bumped into George at the bank and worked with Stevie years later at EMI Records.

Paul Keating ex PM went to Bass Hill High School not far from where he lived. Paul use to get the train from Bankstown with the singer of the Ramrods, the band he was managing at that time, the singer's girlfriend Jenny and myself 5 days a week on our way to work in the City.

Cricketer Jeff Thomson (Thommo) lived in Ashby Avenue across from the Potts Hill Water Tower. Thommo and our friend Ian (Fitzy) taught me to ride my first bicycle. My dad use to often drive Thommo to Gazzard Park where he first started playing cricket with the local team way before he played for Australia.

And that's just to name a few. There were heaps of well known people that came from what was known in the 1970's as 'out west' by those who lived in the east, south and north of Sydney.

Just thought you might like to know some REAL history of the area since it seems the Council's knowledge of the place is so lacking in worthy details of the history of its people.

Chrisjoy7 (talk) 20:08, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello Chrisjoy7

I agree, its a shame that BCC is so lacking in the knowledge of our city. Your post has been a pleasure to read, it sure is interesting to find out what has really happened and what life was like back then. :) Hectic18 23:05, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Template:SC Cambuur managers

I noticed the template Template:SC Cambuur managers you made. I looked it over quickly and found out it was full of omissions. Pieter Tuinman the current manager? How did you come up with that? Tuinman is a known Dutch actor who has nothing to do with football. A lot of managers were left out as well. I hope these were not deliberate mistakes. What source did you use for this template? Baldrick90 (talk) 18:16, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

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Hello!

Regarding your message, the managers I put in the template were the ones I saw from the wikipedia page http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/SC_Cambuur. Adding Pieter Tuinman was a complete mistake, I can't say much about that :/ xD. Btw, what source did you use for the managers? I couldn't find any info on http://www.cambuur.nl/cambuur/ although it's more likely that I can't read Dutch (I just started learning). Anyway, I greatly appreciate the additions and alterations you've made to the template, cheers mate! :D

Doei!Hectic18 (talk) 12:47, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

• You're welcome. I think it's great you pay attention to Dutch football. You cannot rely on articles related to the Netherlands on Wikipedia. They are usually written by Dutch people who know very little English. The source I used is a season guide by VI such as this one here. The problem is not that you can't read Dutch, the information is simply not on the internet.

It's great you are learning Dutch! Here's a few more informal ways to close a Dutch letter.

Doeg! Aju! Houdoe! Xieje! Tabee! Later! Toedels! :-) Baldrick90 (talk) 13:21, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

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I Reinstated the Bankstown Schools information with the image as a reference, there could possibly be problems with the plaque being copyrighted, but I am not going to bring to anyones attention. I have had similar problems with a whole heap of plaque images that I used as refs for this article Georges Head Battery in which I gathered all the information for that article entirely from the plaques. Cheers_Ad@m.J.W.C. (talk) 01:11, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

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You can also add and remove selected articles, bois, pictures and other things within the portal, exept for (Bankstown Bunker). Cheers_Ad@m.J.W.C. (talk) 07:11, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

• Cool, thanks for the heads up :) Hectic18 (talk) 07:14, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

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