Life at Nightcliff High School, 1972

by Kevin
(Adelaide)

I attended Nightcliff High School in 1972. It was not a particularly good time for me. I had better fun working part time at Top End Radio and TV Repairs. Thanks to Mike and his wife for their support while I was there.

I did like Darwin though, the bugs, the frogs, the storms and the way everything grew so fast and lush. I think Darwin lost a lot of character when Tracy blew through. I have been back a number of times and it just seems to miss something.

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Darwin
by: Anonymous

I remember you Kevin. You went back to Adelaide to get an apprenticeship as a radio tech. Then learnt to fly. I ran into around 1982 at Parafield, small world.

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Memories of a 10-pound pommy
by: Andrew

I was at Nightcliffe High in 1972/73, in class 101 with teacher B. Howell, and living at Carpentaria College. Just 12 years old and Australia was still so new to me after growing up in England. I especially remember ..

- collecting shell cases at Nightcliffe Beach
- getting "stung" in the water just one day after swimming season started and waiting to die on the beach, until eventually a row of sucker marks appeared across my chest
- lunchtime deliveries from Carpentaria Collge, usually cold spaghetti or baked bean sandwiches!
- buying salty plums and red ginger from the school tuckshop
- reading what must have been the first Australian Edition of the "Little Red School Book" in the college park, and
- lusting after Marie P.

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Darwin before Tracy
by: Anonymous

I am a former student who attended Nightlife High School in 1972, originally I was in 1D1 class (Bulldog Baker's mob) but transferred to 1C3.
After Tracy I ended up at Casuarina until mid way through 1976 then went to Norwood High School in Adelaide for the rest of that year and also 1977. I met my first regular girlfriend named Adele in 1972, she transferred from Darwin High.

Darwin was a fantastic place before Cyclone Tracy, I had my ups and downs, I experienced the usual teenage angst of trying to fit in with different crews but always ended up being the odd one left out, had no problems with having girlfriends, just the guys kind of didn't take to me, maybe it was because I was always with a girl and sometimes she was already with some other guy, hahahaha.

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