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5 yrs ago

Remember back when Audry was a star & her life prior to her acting career.

Audrey Hepburn's secret life as a Nazi fighter: Bombshell new book reveals Hollywood siren worked for the Dutch Resistance before gracing the silver screen

Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II is set to release in April. The book claims to have proof of Hepburn's direct involvement working under Dutch Resistance leaders. It includes excerpts from her uncle Count Otto van Limburg Stirum's (left) 188-page diary, which wrote during the four months he was imprisoned by the Nazis before his death in 1942. The author Robert Matzen says Hepburn worked in the Dutch Resistance as a doctor's assistant during the Bridge Too Far battle of Arnhem. The book also reveals never-before-seen photos from her personal collection.

New book reveals Audrey Hepburn's secret life as a Nazi fighter

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PlanB

5 yrs ago

I wasnt working in an office then Celia -- I was working in the Nursing home at that time as It was very close to home

Celia

5 yrs ago

http://www.socialserendip.com/hair-styles-of-the-last-100-years/

I was looking at hairstyles, going to have my hair trimmed, then I came to this site!

Takes me back to my late mother some of these styles.

1950's Hairstyles - The Italian Boy

HOLA

5 yrs ago

Celia - The bottom photo looks like the hairstyle that Audrey Hepburn wore in a couple of her movies.

Celia

5 yrs ago

It does a bit Hola, but it looks if it has been plastered down!

sageman

5 yrs ago

The Sydney Opera house is in the news lately, I can remember when that site was covered in tram sheds !! Some interesting old pictures of them before they were bulldozed to commence the building of the opera house are available if you google them RnR/ Celia.?

HOLA

5 yrs ago

Hi sageman - Yes, I remember the old tram sheds before the Opera House was built, and I remember my husband telling me that this was the same place that Sydney cars were towed when they overstayed in parking zones. People were quite irate because of the hefty fines to get them back. He did say he had to get his old Morris back a couple of times. He also stated that he had a lot of car trouble, he couldn't remember where he parked it, after a few jugs.

Celia

5 yrs ago

So that was not a reclaimed site? It was a site for trams. Never knew that, for some reason I always thought it was a reclaimed site jutting out into the water.

RnR

5 yrs ago

Before the Opera House

Bennelong’s Hut

Bennelong was captured in November 1789 and brought to the settlement at Sydney Cove by order of Governor Arthur Phillip, who hoped to learn from him more of the natives' customs and language. In 1791 a brick hut was built for him on the eastern point of Sydney Cove, now called Bennelong Point.

Replica of Bennelong’s Hut, an art installation by Archie Moore built for the 20th Biennale of Sydney.

Fort Macquarie

Fort Macquarie was a square castellated battlement fort built started in 1798 at Bennelong Point. Completed by convict labour in 1821 using stone from the Domain, the fort had 15 guns and housed a small garrison. The powder magazine beneath the tower was capable of storing 350 barrels of gunpowder. It was demolished in 1901 to make way for the Fort Macquarie Tram Depot.

View from Circular Quay looking to Bennelong Point and Fort Macquarie circa 1841.

Fort Macquarie circa 1870.

Fort Macquarie Tram Depot

Fort Macquarie Tram Depot was built on Bennelong Point in Sydney opening on 10 August 1902, on the site of the old Fort Macquarie. The depot was constructed in the design of a fortress with castellated ramparts in homage to the previous building. The depot closed on 22 October 1955 before being demolished in 1958 to make way for the construction of the Sydney Opera House.

sageman

5 yrs ago

Thanks for that RnR, Those photos certainly bring back memories of a bygone era, when life was a lot simpler and laid back compared to the hustle and bustle of today. Ok we didn't have today's technology or other advances but it was still a great life! Yes HOLA I think I spy an old Morris in that line-up waiting to be towed away.? A few jugs were the order of the day then and I for one was led astray (willingly) by some new found young aussies who turned beer drinking into an art form. Talk about forgetting where you parked your car, you were lucky if you remembered that you had one!! There wasn't the vast array of beers then such as today, Tooheys and Reschs brews dominated, and were responsible for many a hangover in what was a beer culture in those days.

Celia

5 yrs ago

Interesting photos RnR, so the trams in Sydney stopped just before the closure of that facility.

I should imagine the distruption was great, they must have had to take up all the tramlines, now they are putting light rail lines down. I was reading about the disruption the other day, it has been on the news with all the shop owners complaining about lack of business. Must be very hard on them.

Celia

5 yrs ago

There is a new book out, about Audrey Hepburn, forward written by one of her sons.

Looks very interesting about the time before she became famous and was what she was

doing during WWII.