Stephens, Heather

(Born 1941) Interviewed March 2018.

Heather, nee Pitt, talks about her father and grandfather, the last fishermen of Maldon to make a living from their catch; how they rescued Canadian airmen in the war and what they fished for in the Blackwater. Heather remembers the cold winter of 1947, the frozen river and the Beeleigh wooden bridge being washed away after the thaw. At school in 1949 she recalls boxes of apples being sent from Maldon in Australia – a big treat!