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Reload page to restart the player. (Can I just take a small step back and ask you why did you decide to go and study Architecture in the first place? What inspired you to?) To do Architecture? Well, it's a funny story and old aunt of mine (laughter). I used to like drawing at school and there weren't any art classes or anything like drawing and I remember, when I was still in primary school, I think, I heard my mother and my aunty talking and I overheard them say "Doris, this boy has to do Architecture!" (Laughter). And I thought well Architecture, whats that all about? Well anyway it sowed a seed and then this same aunty had a friend who had studied architecture using an international correspondence course with a series of great big volumes about "this" big, which I subsequently was given and then during school well I had to sort out subjects to suit Architecture and it never suited me because we had to art which was not thought of in any big sense like it is now and that clashed with chemistry and french and it was very hard to work in and I sort of did dismally in Chemistry and French in senior but I got enough, a B in art or something, to get into the course so. Times have changed, you know, with my past and everything I wouldn't have got into Architecture I don't think. But in those days they had University scholarships for everything and we all got University scholarships, no fees, fantastic! The good old days. (laughter). Incidently, the story, talking about those books they have been on my shelf, they are about "that" big and I have been trying to clean up, sort of getting to the end of the road, and I thought well rather than just throw them out, I'd like to see whether anybody is interested. Do you know I wrote to the librarian of the degree course here and I wrote to the Librarian of the QUT and I didn't get an answer from either of them. (That's odd) And I know they are out of date and everything but they are historical documents, yeah and I followed one of them up because the, I think it was the Librarian here had changed, so I sent that off to the new one, not a sausage which I reckon is very, very poor. (Yeah).

(Where do they eminate from? Where are they published?) They are British, England. It's all British stuff but it's you know from freehand drawing and doing casts, to sanitary engineering, and brick work, the whole works.

(It sounds like an oversight Ian, so we will sort that out for you.) Yeah well no. Well what I offered to do was just bring in a couple of books and just see well are you interested or not. Yeah. I'd be very please to do it (Well we have a specialist here like a specialist librarian) Yeah. Yeah. But it could be considered well absolutely useless for practice now but as a historical document (Yeah, sure of course).