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Reload page to restart the player. (If you had to change the question, you said you weren't clear of the question that completing which project you most proud of or fond of and what of the projects you designed completely yourself?) A building of my own? (Yes) That's a hard one I ... (What about your own house?) Well I never designed my own house. (Oh, you haven't, Oh). No. I've done a little beach house since retirement and it's a little shack and I am pleased with that but I, it's not my greatest work. It's hard to say. I think you might probably have to say Glen Eagles come back at the time when there weren't any highrise units and buildings in, to get it built, you know. I think there wouldn't have been half a dozen unit buildings with elevators in those days. (Well it was All Brackont) Glenn Fallic had just been built. Craigston, and there's one up on Wickham Terrace on the corner there which is one of the earlier ones, it's not a very highrise but it was hard to image that now isn't it. Certainly, the building alterations and things they have done has detracted from it but ... (You got publicity for it in 1961 in The Courier Mail. It was written up as a ..) Yes. Yes I know (as a project) I had that cutting and I, the council a little while ago I think, they put it on some list, not of really big heritage but of interest for the time and I gave them all the stuff I had of those sort of things and ... yeah.

(If you had to choose a building of other contemporary architects that active in the period which you worked, which building would you say was the most significant, which buildings would you say were most significant for Brisbane or Queensland?) For now? (Like in 1945 - 1975 period. Which other colleagues or architects that were active then who you say were significant or which buildings that they produced were significant do you think?) Well (Laughter). When I got to the last question, this is just an introduction, "Which buildings constructed in Queensland post 1975 do you consider significant either personally or generally?" That's a different question I know, but my answer to that after sitting down and thinking this is too hard I said "This old fossil is opting to miss this one." (Laughter). When it came to questions to say which buildings, question 6, "Which buildings constructed in Queensland do you consider significant either personally or generally? I said " Generally, the work of Hase and Scott, Robin Gibson, John Dalton, Peter Heathwood, Gabrielle Poole, Geoffery Pie, Eddy Codd, Jim Birrell." Now if you ask me out of that to pick one, I'd be flat out and I'd require notice or if you asked me to pick out the best 6, I could perhaps with notice. (That's an interesting answer in itself that you have got it as a broad list of people.) Yeah all of those people. There's a bloke I didn't put in there, did you ever know anything about Darvel Miller? (Yes) Darvel Miller, of course he died very young, but Darvel Miller was significant I feel because like Eddy Conn, he was into industrial buildings (system building) and pre-fabrication. (I've been picking him up in my research) Have you? Yeah. He was a good one (I worked for him for 1 day) (Laughter). (It was just a friend of mine was working ..) Did you have long hair did you? (Laughter) (and he needed help and I went in for a day.) Oh I see right yeah. You really would have got a good background then. Anyway and the other one name that I keep on thinking about, an architect that produced buildings and you know how important he is, within this time and subsequently, Dick Stringer, the photographer. Had a great place about a thing to play because his photographic records and libraries and all the significant work, he has photographed (got the records) in such a way that he got the most out of them and that's reflected in the publicity at the time and everything you know. Of course he was in partnership with Jim Birrell for a while there as well. Yeah well anyway. So that is not a very satisfactory answer is it. (It is. It is.) I also get worried about whether I left anybody out because your mind does, hell I forget where I put my glasses now, you know. (Laughter). (Me too.)