Time Recalled

The second of two volume memoir by Fairlie Taylor. Taylor started work as a teacher in regional Victoria. In 1933 she became Victoria's first full-time teacher-librarian at Presbyterian Ladies' College, East Melbourne and later at Methodist Ladies' College. This volume covers the period 1920-1978. It has an account of her time at PLC (1933-1943) including the names of many teachers. When she first arrived in East Melbourne she rented a wooden cottage at 11 Palmer Street, Jolimont, which was known as The Hermitage. At the time it was said to be the cottage that Governor La Trobe had rented to Bishop Perry on his arrival in Melbourne in 1847. However It is now believed that Perry rented another cottage that was on the corner of Jolimont Terrace and Wellington Parade South. Fairlie found the cottage when an article about it appeared in The Age [see link below] The Hermitage was demolished in 1937 and Taylor and her daughter moved to a boarding house known as Chequers which was three houses of Tasma Terrace in Parliament Place.