The Australian info Charmian Lawson (left), husband-to-be Tony and Sally Jane Willams, at the Lawley House Ball in1968 Picture provided Can you picture? The comparable of a gala ball at the Canberra Centre. (Although keepinmind when Diner en Blanc was drizzled out, in 2014, and customers were bussed from Rond Terrace to the Canberra Centre to have the supper there rather, next to the escalators?) When Diner en Blanc was drizzled out at Rond Terrace in 2014, clients were bussed to the Canberra Centre to continue the occasion inside. Picture by Katherine Griffiths Proud Canberran Charmian Lawson was one of the gorgeous young things who wentto the ball in the shoppingcenter in the Monaro Mall in the 1960s. “I came to Canberra from Brisbane in 1968 and went to a ball there that year – I believe it was a navy (part of Defence) ball,” stated. “It was held on the 2nd level. Shops were closed, of course. And individuals danced on the tiled flooring. “I keepinmind the white uniforms, and the charming night gowns as individuals advanced around the open locations. It was uncommon, to state the least.” Charmian was living at Lawley House hostel at the time and it likewise staged a ball that verysame year, with a chess style. “The artist and instructor and Canberra Times art critic Nigel Murray Harvey, who lived at Lawley at the time, arranged for those of us on the social committee to make chess pieces to embellish the hostel (which had a extremely
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