Bob Taylor Bob Taylor i(A50309 works by) (a.k.a. Robert Bernard Taylor; Robert Taylor)
Born: Established: 1939 Salford,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1950
Heritage: English
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BiographyHistory

Bob Taylor was a child migrant under the child immigration schemes of the mid twentieth century. He travelled to Fremantle, Western Australia, from Manchester, United Kingdom, in 1950. He was sent to Boys Town Bindoon north of Perth to live with the Christian Brothers and survived a childhood of hardship and deprivation. After working on vineyards and farms he joined the Forestry Department in Darwin, Northern Territory, and then applied for a job in national parks and worked as a ranger in Western Australian. Bob Taylor wrote poetry and also published a memoir Who am I (2011).

Source: The Weekend Australian (The Nation) (17-18 February 2001): 3; Ken Cotterill, [Untitled], Voice : A Journal of Comment and Review (March 2012): 17-18

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Notes

  • Bob Taylor won the People's Choice Award in the Newman, Western Australia, inaugural short story and poetry prize, 2000.
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