["Mr. A. T. Saunders Looks Back", The Register (Adelaide, SA), Thursday 19 December 1929, page 5]
MR. A. T. SAUNDERS LOOKS BACK.
Vivid Memory Of 70 Years Ago Yesterday
To the Editor
SIR--I vividly remember this day 70 years ago, December 18, 1859. It was a Sunday, and a fine, warm day. I was then just five years old, and was in my grandfather's house (in which I was born) on a sandhill in Queenstown (Port Adelaide).
The house is, and then was, a two-story brick and stone structure built by my grandfather in 1854, and the only two-story house then in Queenstown. Mr. Frank Coleman now owns and occupies it.
My cousin T. M. Allen, afterwards master of the steamer Koombana--lost with all hands, March, 1912--was born on this Sunday, Decembr 18, 1859, and in this house.
Only those who can look back to Port Adelaide of 1859 can form any idea of what that place and its people were like then.--
Yours, A. T. SAUNDERS.
