John Street grew up on the Street Family land in East Corrimal. He is the nephew of Edwin (Ted) Street and shares information regarding his uncle’s life and the Street’s Ice Cream Factory in Corrimal. John discusses life with his own family in Corrimal during the 1950’s and later years in other areas of the Illawarra such as Oak Flats and Albion Park Rail.
John Street – Barbara Street – James Percy Street – Gladys Ada Street – Gladys Ada Matthews – Edwin Street – Ted Street – Dan Street – Daniel Street – East Corrimal – Corrimal – Streets Ice Cream – Streets Ice Cream Factory – Pioneer Road – Street Park – Oak Flats – Albion Park – Albion Park Rail – Albion Park Men’s Shed – U3A – University of the Third Age – Towradgi – Towradgi Creek – Mount Keira – Real Estate – Wollongong Primary School – East Corrimal Primary School – Tennis
John and Barbara Street with their sons Martin and Stuart – circa. 2010
John and Barbara Street on a cruise to Alaska – 2000
Street Family Home – Pioneer Road, Corrimal – 1970
Christmas Day 1962 – Left to right: Peter, Gladys, Barbara, Lina, John, Lorna, Barry, James
John and Barbara Street with John’s parents, James and Gladys
John and Barbara Street’s Wedding – St. Mark’s Anglican Church, West Wollongong – 29 September 1962
John and Barbara Street’s Wedding – St. Mark’s Anglican Church, West Wollongong – 29 September 1962
John and Barbara cutting their engagement cake – February 1961
John and Barbara at the Nock and Kirby Ball – 1960/1961
John Street looking for rabbits at Yalwal, south-west of Nowra – circa. 1961
John having fun at Luna Park with future wife Barbara Thomson – 1958/1959
East Corrimal Primary School – 1952 – John Street is fourth from right in the back row next to his bespectacled mate Barry Smith.
Wollongong Public School – 1951 – John Street (ten years old, centre of middle row with face turned away from camera).
Wollongong Public School – 1947 – John Street (second row from back, fourth from right). His future brother-in-law Jim Thomson is in the same row, second from left.
John Street (right) with his brother Jim and sister Lorna – August/September 1948
John Street dressed as Huckleberry Finn – Fancy Dress at Wollongong RSL – December 1948
John’s father, James Percy, in the garden – 1943
John Street at two and a half years of age with his brother Jim (four and a half). Their mother Gladys Ada is at the right with their father’s old truck in the background – 1943
John Street at about two and a half years of age – 1943
John Street with mother Gladys Ada when he was about nine months old
James Street (holding handlebars)
James Street – circa.1935
James Street with Panther motorcycle – Merungle Hill, Yanco – 1930s.
P21495 – Turning the first sod at the Turrella (N.S.W.) factory for Streets Ice Cream Pty. Ltd. Pictured (left to right): R. Orchard, E. Jones, J. Shepherd, N. Guest, W. Eggins, Edwin Street, C. Lusk, P. Caro, K. Inglis, R. England.
P15267 – Edwin Street (left) sitting on the family cart in Corrimal. Edwin later founded the Streets Ice Cream factory.
P03588 – Railway crossing at Princes Highway and Tarrawanna Road. The man stopping the traffic to allow the coal train from Corrimal Colliery to pass, is Corrimal coalminer, Mr Ernest Milton Hughes. Streets Ice Cream factory on left.
Left to right: James Street, Gladys Street, John, Barbara, Harry Thomson, Johanna Thomson – 29 September 1962
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
