THE STORY THE BEGINNING - SARAH ALEXANDER HER PARENTS EUNICE EVELYN FROST SALLY MARRIES JOHN MOUNTFORD THE POST WAR YEARS THE POST WAR YEARS (cont.) CONCLUSION LIST OF COLLECTED SONGS AND TUNES

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Teralba 1958 photo by John Meredith

For a ten year period, between 1956 and 1966, Sally and Fred Sloane moved to the central coast of NSW – firstly to Fennells Bay right on the water and then to Teralba, a little south of the industrial city of Newcastle. Fred was working as a fitter's mate on the building of a power station at nearby Wangi. Building of the Wangi Power Station was commenced in 1955 (it was decommissioned in 1986).

Sally's time on the coast was a busy one. The home at Teralba was a large rambling old Queenslander beside the railway line, not far from the lake. Her daughter Doris and her children would stay with her for a holiday every year or so. Sally liked to potter in the garden and played bowls in Newcastle. She would visit Sydney fairly often, to sing and play at the concerts of the Bush Music Club of which she was made a Life Member. In 1966 the first stage of the Wangi power station was completed. Sally and Fred returned to Lithgow, settling into a home at 32 Shaft Street.

Teralba 1958 photo by John Meredith