Life for a real Ten Pound Pom
A family recall leaving 1960s Kent for Down Under as a drama puts the spotlight on ‘ten pound Poms’. …
Dr Jim Hammerton, who interviewed several British emigrants for his book Ten Pound Poms: Australia’s Invisible Migrants, says: “To get on a boat for six weeks and go to an unknown continent was a huge thing. It could be devastating, and it could be wonderful.”
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