The day the Silver Ball went up! (Fletcher Jones) Features a couple of colour photos taken on the day by Marg Eagles and also a few beautiful black and white’s from Arnold McKay’s collection that he took on the day. As told by Marg Eagles.
This photo story was created for the Fletcher Jones: Stories from our Community project.
I have been engaged by the Save the Silver Ball and Fletcher Jones Gardens Committee to create a series of digital stories and short documentaries that document some of the amazing stories from the Fletcher Jones factory days. The project named Fletcher Jones: Stories from our Community project is an effort to collect the best of the many community stories and memories around the Fletcher Jones factory, Pleasant Hill gardens and silver ball water tower.
The digital stories and other stories collected by the FJ’s committee will be part of an online/offline exhibition. Ideas for the stories so far include an online archive, a book, and an exhibition, and plans to create photographic panels on the side of the Fletcher Jones factory.
More stories:
Memories of Fletcher Jones Gardens
‘Sharing The Stoke’ Event @ YMCA Riverslide Skate Park in Melbourne, 28th March, 2014.
Christiaan ‘Otter’ Bailey with Kylie Thulborn, Karen Gilbin, and Co. introduced Chair Skating to whole heap of wheel chair grommets. Kids were dropping into ramps and rolling down transition in their wheel chairs for the first time in their lives. Feeling the fear and doing it anyway = STOKE!
Filmed by Colleen Hughson, Christiaan Bailey and Jesse Abrahams
Edited by Colleen Hughson
Music: Delta Blues @ IB Audio